Distress Centres

General information

For 50 years, Distress Centres has provided 24-hour support, 7 days a week,
365 days a year to individuals in our community at risk and their most
vulnerable. We are Canada’s oldest volunteer delivered crisis, emotional
support and suicide prevention + intervention + postvention service agency.
Our crisis and emotional distress services are available via hotline,
online chat, and text. We also offer face-to-face individual as well as
group support and counselling to those who have lost a loved one to suicide
or homicide and are navigating the aftermath. Distress Centres continues to
expand, and our program participants & call volume increases each year.
Distress Centres now answers more than 82,000+ calls annually, and is a
pilot site for the recently launched National Suicide Hotline (Canadian
Suicide Prevention Service) via Crisis Service Canada.