Resources

• Addiction & Mental Health Services - Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington (AMHS-KFLA)

  • Crisis Line: 613-544-4229

• Telephone Aid Line Kingston (TALK) 

  • Website or 613-544-1771

  • Telephone Aid Line Kingston (TALK) is a confidential, anonymous, non-judgmental, and volunteer-based listening service who aims to meet the needs of the KFL&A community. They achieve this by creating an empathetic and safe environment on our listening line and during outreach events.

• BounceBack | Website

  • A free, guided self-help program that’s effective in helping people aged 15 and up who are experiencing mild-to-moderate anxiety or depression, or may be feeling low, stressed, worried, irritable or angry.

• Talk Suicide

  • Website or 1-833-456-4566

  • Offers toll-free support to people in Canada who have concerns about suicide. Phone line available 24/7 or text 45645 between 4 p.m. and midnight ET.

• Distress and Crisis Ontario | Website

  • Distress Centres (DC’s) across Ontario offer support and a variety of services to their communities. At a DC you can find a listening ear for lonely, depressed, and/or suicidal people, usually 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The website also offers a chat function.

• Hope for Wellness Help Line

  • 1-855-242-3310

  • Offers immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada. Phone and chat counselling is available in English, French, Cree, Ojibway and Inuktitut.

• Loneliness Resources

  • https://thesummitwellnessgroup.com/resources/loneliness-epidemic/

  • Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy recently issued a special report on the public health crisis of loneliness in America. The Summit Wellness Group has put together this incredible guide with dozens of mental health and substance use resources that can help.

• LGBT Youthline Ontario

  • Website | 647-694-4275

• Assaulted Women’s Helpline

  • 1-866-863-0511

  • 24-hour telephone for all women in Ontario who have experienced any form of abuse.