Kids Help Phone is Canada’s only 24/7, national support service. We offer professional counselling, information and referrals and volunteer-led, text-based support to young people in both English and French.
Link to resources:
Contact information:
1-800-668-6868
The Crisis Outreach Service for Seniors offers: mobile crisis intervention and counselling to older adults; short-term intensive case management; harm reduction and concurrent disorders service; limited primary care and nursing; mental health and addictions assessment, counselling and referrals.
Contact information:
416-217-2077
Providing Information and Referral (I&R) for callers to community and social services 24/7 for Central Region (Toronto, Peel Region, York Region and Durham Region), and overnight and on weekends for the rest of Ontario: Dial 2-1-1
Link to resources:
Contact information:
2-1-1
York Support Services Network (YSSN) offers a 24/7 Community Crisis Response Service for people living in York Region or South Simcoe who are having a mental health crisis, and their family or friends. Text support and live chat available between 7:00 a.m. and midnight.
Contact information:
Call or text 1-855-310-COPE (2673); live chat with a crisis worker at https://cope.yssn.ca/
Get fast, free medical advice through Telehealth Ontario.
Link to resources:
https://www.ontario.ca/page/get-medical-advice-telehealth-ontario
Contact information:
1-866-797-0000
Link to resources:
https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/housing-shelter/homeless-help/#respitesites
Contact information:
416-338-4766 or 1-877-338-3398