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Right now, tonight
If your family needs help right now.
These services answer at any hour, they are free, and no concern is too small for them.
This practice is not a crisis service. Sessions are scheduled and messages are not monitored around the clock. The services on this page are, and they are free, confidential, and used every day by families like yours. If there is immediate danger, call emergency services: 911 in Canada, 999 in the UK.
In Canada
- 9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline: call or text 9-8-8, any hour, any day
- Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868, or text CONNECT to 686868, for young people 24/7
- BC Mental Health Support Line: 310-6789, no area code needed, 24/7
- Emergency: 911
In the UK
- Samaritans: 116 123, free from any phone, any hour, any day
- Childline: 0800 1111, for anyone under 19
- Papyrus HOPELINE247: 0800 068 4141, for under-35s and anyone worried about a young person
- Emergency: 999
If you are a parent reading this at 2am
Trust what you are seeing. If your child has talked about not wanting to be here, has hurt themselves, or you are frightened for their safety tonight, use the numbers above now; that is what they exist for, and no concern is too small for them. Tomorrow, tell your family doctor. And when the immediate storm has passed, if steady ongoing support would help, that is where this practice can come in.