Canadian Mental Health Resources

• Canadian Mental Health Resources
• Canadian Mountain Community
• Mental Health in the Guiding Industry

British Columbia

• BC Suicide Line: 1-800-784-2433
• www.crisiscentre.bc.ca
• WorkSafe BC Crisis and Critical Incident Support Line: 1-800-624-2928 Open 7 days a week 24 hours a day
• Mental Health Support (24 hours) – 604-310-6789
• CrisisCentreChat.ca- Online chat is available from noon to 1am in BC and Yukon only
• BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (bc-counsellors.org)
• Mental Health – Foundry – (foundrybc.ca) (Youth resource but contains helpful tools)
• Interior Crisis Line Network
  • Crisis Line (24/7): 1-888-353-2273 (C.A.R.E.)
  • Crisis Chat Service (Thursday to Sunday 5-9pmPT/6-10pmMT): InteriorCrisisLine.com/crisischat
• Northern BC Crisis Centre
  • Toll Free (24 hours): 1-888-562-1214
  • Crisis Line (24 hours): 250-563-1214
• Vancouver Island Crisis Line and Chat
  • Toll Free (24 hours): 1-888-494-3888
  • Crisis Text: 250-800-3806
  • Crisis Chat: www.vicrisis.ca
• Coastal Region
  • Toll Free (24 hours): 1-866-661-3311
  • Toll Free TTY (24 hours): 1-866-872-0113
  • Crisis Chat: crisiscentrechat.ca
• WorkSafe BC
  • Call 1-888-922-3700. This is the Crisis Team pager for WorkSafeBC.
  • Leave a message about your incident and request for immediate debrief with your contact information.
  • A trained counsellor will be paged immediately and respond back.
  • Generally it is possible to facilitate a debrief within 24-48 hours either in person or virtually and counsellors are located throughout BC.
  • There is no need to contact this service pre season to have on stand by.
  • There is no fee for this service.
  • If an individual would like to take advantage of the five hours of counselling they should follow the same procedure. All calls are confidential.

Alberta

• Canadian Mental Health Association- Crisis Services Canada:
  • Please call 1-833-456-4566 toll free, 24/7 or visit www.crisisservicescanada.ca.
  • All of Alberta: 211
  • CMHA Edmonton Region: 780-482-4357
  • CMHA Calgary Region: 403-297-1402
  • Calgary Counselling Centre: 403-691-5991
  • Distress Centre Calgary: 403-266-4357
• Mental health line: 877-303-2642
• Calgary distress centre: 24-hour support: 403-266-4357
• Alberta Health Services
• Offer free walk in mental health appointments in certain towns, daily from 2-9pm
• Call hospital switch board, ask for walk in appointment
• Banff: 403-762-2222
• Canmore: 403-678-5536

More Alberta Resources can be found here: Helplines List | 211 Alberta | 211 Alberta, Information on social, community, health and government services in Alberta

Quebec

• Canada Suicide Prevention Service- 1-866-277-3553
• Text 1-855-957-5353

Yukon

• CrisisCentreChat.ca- Online chat is available from noon to 1am in BC and Yukon only
• Yukon Health Counselling Service

Canada

• Crisis Services Canada (CSC) is a national network for existing distress, crisis and suicide prevention line services. Services are available across Canada via toll-free phone, chat or text in English and French.
  • Call: 1-833-456-4566 (available 24/7)
    Text: 45645 (available daily 4 pm – 12 am ET)
    Chat via the website http://www.crisisservicescanada.ca/en/
• Homewood Health has several locations across, and are leaders in the treatment of depression, anxiety, PTSD and addiction. Individuals can call themselves or be referred by another healthcare professional. For more information: https://homewoodhealth.com/clinics/overview
  • Edmonton contact: call 780-809-5004 or 1-866-978-4915
  • Calgary contact: call 403-768-3199 or 1-866-492-6832
  • Vancouver: call 604 265 1174 or 1-866-986-2165
  • Mississauga: call 289 207 0011 or 1-855-504-4603
• Online Peer Support- www.bigwhitewall.ca
  • Anonymous peer support community accessible anywhere anytime
• BetterHelp- Online access to professional counsellors- https://www.betterhelp.com/
• LifeLine Canada Foundation- thelifelinecanada.ca
  • One stop portal, through which an extensive amount of support, guidance, intervention, information, education, resources, pattern interrupts, guides and tools are right at one’s fingertips, compiled from various, credited sources across the Globe.

Tools

• https://www.responderalliance.com
• Looking for more training: crisis centre.bc.ca/programming-for-adults/