Go-To Mental Health Websites
Crisis Intervention Helplines
Resilient Kids Canada does not provide mental health services. If you require urgent assistance, we recommend you contact:
First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Helpline: a crisis counselling telephone helpline and on-line chat line for Indigenous people who are suffering from mental health issues 1-855-242-3310
Kids Help Phone: available 24 hours a day for young people aged five (5) to twenty-nine (29). Phone 1-800-668-6868 (toll-free) or text Connect 686868.
Spirit Bear’s Guide to Truth and Reconciliation: a youth’s guide to the 94 calls-to- action by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Talk 4 Healing: 24-7 support, help and resources for Indigenous Women in Ontario fully grounded in Indigenous culture, wisdom and traditions and available in multiple Indigenous languages by calling 1-855-554-HEAL (4325). Live support will be there to listen any time of the day.
Crisis Services Canada: to help you to find distress centres and crisis organizations across Canada. You can assess immediate help by calling 1-833-456-4566 (toll-free and available 24/7) or by Texting 45645 (4 pm – 12 am ET).
Hope for Wellness Helpline: a 24/7 crisis counselling helpline for Indigenous people across Canada who are suffering from mental health issues. Contact them at 1-855-242-3310 or visit their chat line.
Mental Health Organizations
Canadian Mental Health Association: mental health tools and resources including strengthening children’s mental health
Canadian Centre for Mental Health and Sport: Canada-wide mental health resources
Children’s Mental Health Ontario: with kids’ mental health resources
Everyday Heroes Kids: connects families to pediatric professionals and organizations in health, mental health and education
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society: access their wide selection of tools and resources to support the mental health of children
IMPACT SOCIETY: heroes’ programs and curriculum resources for youth, educators, communities
Jack.org: training and empowering young leaders to revolutionize mental health
KIDTHINK: mental health services in Manitoba for children ages 5 to 12
Mental Health Commission of Canada: programs and tools to support the mental
School Mental Health Ontario: with mental health resources for children, parents and educators
Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine: improving the physical and psychosocial health and well-being of all adolescents through advocacy, clinical care, health promotion, health service delivery, professional development and research
Youth Mental Health Canada: focused on youth, family and community engagement for mental health education, support, advocacy and change
Resilient Kids Canada
We do not provide mental health services. If you require assistance, we recommend you contact:
Crisis Services Canada: to help you to find distress centres and crisis organizations across Canada. You can assess immediate help by calling 1-833-456-4566 (toll-free and available 24/7) or by Texting 45645 (4 pm – 12 am ET).
Kids Help Phone: available 24 hours a day for young people aged five (5) to twenty-nine (29). Phone 1-800-668-6868 (toll-free) or text Connect 686868.
Hope for Wellness Helpline: a 24/7 crisis counselling helpline for Indigenous people across Canada who are suffering from mental health issues. Contact them at 1-855-242-3310 or visit their chat line at www.hopeforwellness.ca
Resilient Kids Canada’s Registered Charity Number 718447477 RR 001
Land Acknowledgment: Our lands spanning from Lake Ontario to the Niagara Escarpment are steeped in the Indigenous History and Modern Traditions of the many Firsts Nations and Métis. The territory is mutually covered by the Dishwith One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy, the Ojibway and other allied Nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. We would like to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is part of the Tready Land and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit.