Important
If you are at risk of harm to yourself or others, or require immediate care, call 9-1-1 or go directly to the nearest emergency room.
Need to talk to someone?
- Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868 for texting service (24hr counselling and listening helpline/texting service)
- Tele-Aide: 514-935-1101 (24hr listening service)
- Suicide Action Montreal (SAM): 514-723-4000 (24hr listening service)
- Tracom Crisis Intervention Centre: 514-483- 3033 (24hr telephone support)
- West Island Crisis Centre: 514-684-6160 (24hr crisis intervention line; for those in need of crisis intervention, or for people supporting others in crisis)
- Douglas Institute Emergency care: 514-761-6131, ext. 2221 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week for urgent care)
- Jewish General Hospital, Teenage Health Unit: 514-340-8242 (Monday to Friday: 8:30am–4:30pm)
- Info-Santé /Info-Social 811 promptly puts you in contact with a nurse or psychosocial intervention worker in the event of a health concern or psychosocial problem
Addictions
- Drug Help & Referral: 1-800-265-2626 (24hr listening and referral service)
- Gambling Help & Referral (SOS Jeux): 514-527-0140 (24hr listening and referral service)
- Urgence Toxico: 514-288-1515 (24hr emergency services)
- Al Anon: 514-866-9803 (10:00am-10:00pm, 7 days a week)
Eating Disorders
- ANEB: 514-630-0907 (every day from 8:00am-3:00am) Professional service, offering hope and support to people suffering from eating disorders across Quebec.
Sexual Violence
- Dawson’s Sexual Violence resource page: https://www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/sexual-violence/external-resources-information/
Domestic Violence
- S.O.S. Violence Conjugale: 1-800-363-9010 (24hr information and support services)
- Shield of Athena
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Interligne: 1-888-505-1010 (24hr free confidential helpline – phone and texting)
Apps (iPhone or Android)
- Moodfit: Helps you monitor your mood. Teaches stress reduction and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) coping skills.
- Headspace: Teaches mindfulness and mediation to reduce stress and anxiety.
- Calm: Teaches mindfulness and mediation to reduce stress and anxiety
- Happify: Uses games to reduce stress, build resilience and shift negative thoughts.
- Breathe2Relax: Teaches breathing techniques to reduce stress and anxiety.
- Mindshift App: Expert CBT-based tools to help you relax and be mindful and take charge of anxiety.
Additional Resources
- Anxiety Canada: Free downloadable material (PDFs) on different CBT strategies based to address anxiety (e.g., test anxiety, social anxiety and social skills, generalized anxiety disorder): https://www.anxietycanada.com/free-downloadable-pdf-resources/
- Information and Referral Center of Greater Montreal can help you find various other resources: from 8:00am. to 6:00pm., 7 days a week, dial 2-1-1. If 2-1-1 does not work on your cell phone call 514 527-1375
COVID-19 and Mental Health
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- Ami Quebec: AMI-Quebec helps families manage the effects of mental illness through support, education, guidance, and advocacy. Posting live video updates on Facebook at 11am EST every weekday during the Coronavirus crisis
- Argyle Institute: 514-931-5629 offers psychotherapy on sliding scale. They are currently offering three free telepsychology sessions with a licensed clinician for covid-19 related reasons
- CAMH: COVID-19 Information. A webpage designed to help people with concerns and questions about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their lives and mental well-being
- Mindspace: follow their link to read about free online COVID-19 support groups
- Starling Minds: digital cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) programs, free access for mental health support for COVID-10 related issues
- Virus anxiety: A project by Shine, provides care for your coronavirus anxiety
- World Health Organization: Coping with stress during the 2019- nCoV outbreak
- “Psychology Works” Fact Sheet: Student Wellness and COVID-19 – Canadian Psychological Association: As the COVID-19 situation evolves around the globe, students’ day-to-day lives are being increasingly disrupted. From courses being moved from an in-person setting to online classes and not being able to visit friends and family, to not having access to the resources such as the library, the mental health clinic, or other spaces on campus.
