We provide prevention, education and support for 2-Spirit, including First Nations, metis and Inuit people. We base our work on indigenous philosophies of wholistic health and wellness.

NOT A 2SLGBTQ+ SPECIFIC RESOURCE

Our 408-HELP (4357) line provides telephone support to individuals in the community who are at risk and their most vulnerable. Highly-trained volunteer responders (with the support of professional staff) connect with callers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Our team provides callers with emotional support and crisis intervention when they are socially isolated, marginalized, struggling with chronic mental health problems, in distress, attempting to navigate family violence or in need of emergency response or suicide prevention + intervention + postvention.

Our 408-HELP (4357) line provides:
Emotional support service for those with chronic mental health problems
Support & crisis intervention services for those currently experiencing distress or crisis
Family violence response
Suicide prevention services
Emergency intervention and response

Multilingual Distress Lines
Apart from our English line which is available 24/7, we also offer services in Cantonese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, open Monday to Friday, 10am to 10pm.
Caledon: 877-298-5444
Brampton & Mississauga: 905-459-7777

988 Suicide Crisis Helpline
9-8-8 is a new national helpline for anyone across Canada who is thinking about suicide, or who is worried about someone they know. Call or text 9-8-8 toll-free, anytime for support in English and French. 9-8-8 responders are here to listen and provide help without judgement.

We Have Got You
The Touching Base Program is a predominantly short term support program for individuals over 16 who live in Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon and surrounding areas. Volunteers provide registered participants with medication reminders, safety check-ins, or emotional support through friendly social calls.

THIS RESOURCE IS NOT 2SLGBTQ SPECIFIC

Embrave – Agency to End Violence is an anti-violence organization providing shelter, counselling and advocacy supports for women, Two-Spirit, gender queer, trans and non-binary folks and their children experiencing any form of violence in the Region of Peel and beyond. We provide supports and services to survivors with or without children.

We understand that survivors’ experiences of violence are compounded by intersecting forms of racism and oppression. Embrave is a low barrier organization that is committed to ending gender-based violence by acknowledging and addressing the multitude of barriers facing folks who have experienced violence and by providing crisis intervention and a range of supports and services.

Embrave’s definition of gender-based violence includes intimate partner violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, cyber violence; physical, emotional and financial violence; stalking; structural and systemic violence, such as racism, colonialism, classism, transphobia, homophobia, sanism, islamophobia, nationalism and ableism.

Our programs include:

• 24-Hour Emergency Shelters
• 24-Hour Crisis Support Lines
• Community Support and Outreach Program supports survivors living in the community who have or are experiencing violence
• Central Intake Line provides coordinated access to Transitional Housing Supports in Peel Region
• Sexual Violence Counselling Support Program
• Public Education Program
• Lead Agency for the Peel Committee Against Women Abuse (PCAWA)

NOT A 2SLGBTQ+ SPECIFIC RESOURCE

Family Transition Place is a multi-service agency providing a range of services: Support / Information Line, Emergency Shelter, Second Stage and Third Stage Housing, Support Within Housing, Counselling (gender based violence, sexual abuse and addictions), Transitional Support (Housing & Legal), Rural Response, Community Outreach, Youth Education.

THIS SERVICE IS NON QUEER, TRANS & LGBTQ SPECIFIC

Good2Talk is a free, confidential helpline providing professional counselling and information and referrals for mental health, addictions and well-being to post-secondary students in Ontario. THIS IS ALSO A CRISIS RESOURCE.

Youth can anonymously and confidentially talk to a trained counselor over the phone or through live chat.

With Crisis Text Line, you can chat with a trained, volunteer crisis responder for support any time, about anything, via text message.

Also, Resources Around Me database allows youth to search for resources in their community like Counselling and Mental Health Support, Sexual Health Support, Housing Support, Legal Support, Job Help, and more. Also provides crisis support.

OUTLoud North Bay is an organization driven by volunteers willing to support the mental health and well-being of our community. We do this by providing peer-to-peer support, workshops and offering professional referrals. By mentoring our community to provide support and resources, encouraging leadership, accountability and healthy relationships.
We support and celebrate community in an equitable, diverse and Inclusive safe space. As we invest in our mission and collaborate with our community, we strive to educate and provide the following: facilitating community programming harm reduction, body and sex positivity, indigenous solidarity mental health and wellness, and 2SLGBTQA+ resources.

THIS SERVICE IS NOT 2SLGBTQ+ SPECIFIC

Reach Out is a free, 24/7, confidential mental health and addictions support and services line for people living in Elgin, Middlesex and Oxford and London. You can connect with Reach Out three different ways:

Text: 519-433-2023
Call: 519-433-2023 or 1-866-933-2023 or click here to learn more.
Web: https://reachout247.ca/

Reach Out also offers a free taxi services to and from the Mental Health and Addictions Crisis Centre in London for youth (aged 16-25) in crisis who reside in rural Middlesex.

*THIS SERVICE IS NOT 2SLGBTQ+ SPECIFIC*

Sexual Assault Centre Kingston is a not-for-profit organization providing free, confidential, non-judgmental support for all survivors 12+ regardless of gender or identity of recent and/or historic sexual violence in Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) since 1978.

THIS RESOURCE IS NOT 2SLGBTQ SPECIFIC

SACHA supports survivors of sexual assault while working to end violence in our community.

SACHA’s Programs are:
24 Hour Support Line
Counselling and Advocacy
Diverse Communities Outreach
Public Education