MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

CONNEXONTARIO

Addiction, Mental Health, and Problem Gambling Treatment Services

DURHAM DISTRESS CENTRE

Distress Centre Durham provides a 24-hour helpline staffed by specially trained community volunteers. 

services include:

• 24 Hour Telephone Helpline Service

• Community Contact Call-Out Program

• Resource Centre

• Suicide Survivor Support Groups

• Adolescent Suicide Awareness

• Community Training / Education

DURHAM MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

Durham Mental Health Services offers a range of crisis supports to assist individuals who are experiencing a personal or situational crisis. Their crisis services are free and confidential.
Services include:
Crisis Services
Telephone support is available toll free, 24 hours per day, to support the individual in crisis and/or their supports.  A community visit by our mobile crisis team can be arranged to support the individual in their preferred environment.  Follow-up support, including linkage and referral to other community supports, are also available.
Crisis Beds
Short-term stays in our Crisis Beds are available for individuals who are experiencing a crisis and are in need of individualized support in a safe, supportive setting away from their present situation.
Mental Health Safe Beds
This program provides short-term residential crisis beds for individuals living with mental health problems, who are in contact with the justice system.  The program offers a safe alternative (where appropriate) to incarceration or hospitalization.

CRISIS SERVICE CANADA

Connecting local distress centre professionals together as a virtual national suicide helpline.

KIDS HELP PHONE

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.

GOOD2TALK

Good2Talk provides confidential support services for post-secondary students in Ontario and Nova Scotia.

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