if you or somebody you know is currently struggling, please please please take 10 deep breaths and reach out to somebody. here are a few of the many resources available.
hotlines: if you need to call and talk with someone right now, please call one of the numbers
organizations: the organizations listed are local to your towns and have wonderful people ready to support you
Call, Email or Chat. Beyond Blue provides information and support to help everyone in Australia achieve their best possible mental health, whatever their age and wherever they live.
Call or Chat. Lifeline is a national charity providing all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with access to 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention services.
Call, Email or Chat. Kids Helpline is Australia’s only free, private and confidential 24/7 phone and online counselling service for young people aged 5 to 25.
batyr is a for purpose preventative mental health organisation, created and driven by young people, for young people.
Text, Chat or email. An emotional and suicidal prevention support NGO founded in 1962 in São Paulo, Brazil, and recognized as Federal Public Utility in 1973. It offers voluntary and free support, with all communications being confidential.
Call, Text or Chat. Crisis Services Canada (CSC) is a collaboration of distress and crisis centres from across Canada, offering Canada’s first nationally available, regionally delivered suicide prevention service.
service partnership between Kids Help Phone and U.S.-based crisis line and technology pioneer Crisis Text Line, providing young people in Canada with the first ever, 24/7, free nationwide texting service
Call, Text or email. Kids Help Phone is Canada’s only 24/7, national support service
Trans Lifeline is a national trans-led 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to improving the quality of trans lives by responding to the critical needs of our community with direct service, material support, advocacy, and education.
Chat or Text. Youthspace is a place for any youth across Canada, under 30, that is experiencing any sort of crisis to come and talk.
Jack.org is Canada's only charity training and empowering young leaders to revolutionize mental health in every province and territory
ONE OF US vision is to improve life for all by promoting inclusion and combatting discrimination connected to mental illness in Denmark
Our helpline is for men in the UK who are down or have hit a wall for any reason, who need to talk or find information and support.
With support and understanding, Mind enables people to make informed choices. The Infoline gives information on types of mental health problems, where to get help, drug treatments, alternative therapies and advocacy. Mind works in partnership with around 140 local Minds providing local mental health services.
Provides confidential, non-judgemental emotional support for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those that could lead to suicide. You can phone, email, write a letter or in most cases talk to someone face to face.
SANEline is a national out-of-hours mental health helpline offering specialist emotional support, guidance and information to anyone affected by mental illness, including family, friends and carers
Time to Change is a growing social movement working to change the way we all think and act about mental health problems. We've already reached millions of people and begun to improve attitudes and behaviour.
Call or Chat. SOS Amitié is a Federation of 44 regional associations with 50 telephone, messaging and chat rooms
The listening team at SOS Help is made up entirely of volunteers. We're trained by professional psychologists, who provide continued training and support, but who do not work on the line. We're trained to listen to you, and not to judge, label or diagnose you.
an organization founded in 1994 and dedicated to suicide prevention, provides a 24-hour “listening line”
Nummer gegen Kummer eV (NgK) is the umbrella organization of the largest free telephone counseling service for children, adolescents and parents throughout Germany.
National Hotline in Germany
The Hospital Authority and the Mental Health Association of Hong Kong maintain 24-hour hotlines for people who need help with mental health problems.
To provide a wide range of information, assistance, and ways of treatment, referrals and face-to-face counseling services to people suffering from emotional disorders so as to reduce the number of suffering people by providing them proper treatment in time.
Since its inception in 1995, the "Lifeline" has helped more than 520,000 people
We provide online support and interventions, based on global best practice, to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem.
The Samaritan Befrienders Hong Kong (SBHK) was formed in 1960 by a group of volunteers. Starting from 24-hour emotional support hotline, they now extend their services to suicide crisis intervention, life education and professional training
The Samaritans is a non-profit, non-religious organisation giving confidential emotional support to people who are suicidal or are in general distress. The service is provided to anyone regardless of age, creed, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.
Youth Outreach is dedicated to helping at-risk youth grow into responsible members of our community
If you are based in India: You can reach us directly via call or WhatsApp at +919033837227 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Lifeline offers a free tele-helpline providing emotional support to people who are in despair, depressed or suicidal. Face to face befriending with prior appointment is also available
The foundation seeks to champion the cause of mental health in India, with a focus on depression in particular. Besides spreading awareness, it also aims to support and carry out various on-ground activities
At Mpower, we proactively champion mental health causes, create awareness, advocate prevention and provide services through a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach.
Need someone to talk to? Call us if you are disturbed, stressed, depressed or suicidal. We provide complete anonymity and strict confidentiality. You can talk to us about your innermost thoughts without fear of being judged or criticized
Sneha is a suicide prevention organisation that offers unconditional emotional support for the depressed, desperate and the suicidal. Sneha offers total confidentiality for its callers, their volunteers are non-judgemental and the services offered by them are free.
Sumaitri is a crisis intervention centre for the depressed, distressed and suicidal
CALL provides emotional support, information and referral services to individuals in psycho-social distress, across the life span and across different gender and sexual identities.
Into The Light Indonesia Suicide Prevention Community for Advocacy, Research, and Education (SP-CARE) is a community of young people who focus as a center for suicide prevention education and mental health education in Indonesia.
Saveyourselves is a community that aims to raise awareness about mental health. Our three main services are education, supportive counseling, and suicide prevention
When living becomes too heavy and there is no one to turn to, when the problems seem unbearable, the Samaritans are ready to give you emotional support, in absolute confidentiali
Call or Chat. Telefono Azzurro promotes total respect for the rights of children and adolescents. With its activities every day promotes their potential for growth and protects them from abuse and violence that can jeopardize their well-being and growth path
voluntary organization that since 1967 has been listening to anyone who feels loneliness, anguish, sadness, despondency, anger, discomfort and feels the need to share these emotions with a friendly voice
The Nagoya Life Phone is a phone consultation that can be used "anytime," "anywhere," and "everyone."
The main hotline in Japan is called Inochi no Denwa, which means lifeline in Japanese. There is a branch in every prefecture.
We are a volunteer group whose purpose is to provide emotional support to those who are thinking or committing suicide. We mainly perform activities such as telephone consultation, meeting of self-death bereaved sharing and lecture
Every day for 45 years TELL Lifeline has been providing important connections and support to people all across Japan.
Stonewall Japan is a community organisation providing support for, and enhancing the lives of international Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQIA+) people in Japan desiring an outlet for expressing their gender and sexuality
Japan's only 24 hour non-profit, nationwide emergency assistance service for international residents
Every day for 45 years TELL Lifeline has been providing important connections and support to people all across Japan.country’s growing mental health care needs.
Befrienders is a not-for-profit organisation providingemotional support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to people who are lonely, in distress, in despair, and having suicidal thoughts - without charge.
The Malaysia Lifeline Association was established in 1989 and registered in 1993 as a non-religious, non-political, non-profit organization that provides counselling services, social care, and social education to the general public.
Befrienders provides confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide
SAPTEL is a mental health and Distance Medicine service with 30 years of operation. SAPTEL is a professional program attended by selected, trained, trained and supervised psychologists who provide counseling, referral, psychological support, psychotherapeutic counseling and emotional crisis intervention through the telephone for free.
Call or Chat. national suicide prevention organization
is the national organization that offers anonymous support day and night by telephone, e-mail and chat. This is done by 1,500 volunteers throughout the countr
Samen Sterk Zonder Stigma is working on a society in which psychological problems can be discussed
The University of San Carlos, through its Community Extension Service (CES), launched KAUBAN, a support group for people manifesting symptoms of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideations. The first mental health support group in Cebu
(24/7 suicide, depression, and emotional crisis intervention hotline)
Network of Mental Health Organizations in Cebu
In Touch Community Services is a leading provider of Mental Health Services in the Philippines. Established in 1980, it is a volunteer-driven organization dedicated to promoting mental health and offering care and treatment to persons suffering from mental and emotional distress.
Hopeline is a 24/7 suicide prevention and crisis support helpline.
Knit Philippines is a company that recognizes the benefits of general mental health care and utilizes public health models in providing innovative solutions to mental health veering away from the traditional and outdated clinical systems.
Silakbo PH is an effort by the Filipino youth to uplift stories in the context of mental health awareness
(24/7 suicide, depression, and emotional crisis intervention hotline)
non-profit organization in the Philippines dedicated to bringing depression to light through the use of educational lectures, confidential crisis lines and referrals to partner mental health professionals.
Phone support is support in a difficult life situation, related to illness, family crisis, lack of means of subsistence.We help people who are suffering, lonely, sometimes desperate, those who have no one to understand, accept and give spiritual suppor
24-hour line and free for callers. The psychologists of the ITAKA Foundation, providing advice and directing callers to the appropriate help center in their region, are on call, e-mail and cha
We help young people deal with difficult matters.
Counseling hotline and Building hope and promoting well-being of individuals and families in community through social and health care services.
IMH offers a comprehensive range of psychiatric, rehabilitative and counselling services for children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly
LGBTQ Peer-led Suppport Group and Hotliine. These confidential services provide an active listening ear and emotional support for people who would like to share about issues troubling them, such as sexuality, identity, relationships, mental health and sexual health.We also provide information on LGBTQ+ community resources and LGBTQ-affirming professional resources.
Samaritans of Singapore (SOS) is dedicated to providing confidential emotional support to individuals facing a crisis, thinking about suicide or affected by suicide. Non-religious and not for profit, our work focuses on crisis intervention and suicide prevention.
The establishment and operation of the Center for the Prevention of Central Suicide began in 2011.
Korea's first telephone consulting agency - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. To spreads respect for life and practice suicide prevention.
The Love Counseling Center was established in 1981 as a specialized social welfare counseling organization.
Children's Rights in Society, is one of Sweden's leading children's rights organizations, which every day struggle for a better society for children
Hjärnkoll mission is to create a more open conversation climate around mental illness in the workplace, and to help managers and employees to better manage and prevent mental illness.
Call, Chat or Email. Mind is an independent non-profit organization working for mental health
child and adolescent mental health clinic.
Samaritans is an association that serves as a friend to talk on the phone.
Crisis Text Line is free, 24/7 support for those in crisis, connecting people in crisis to trained Crisis Counselors. Our first priority is helping people move from a hot moment to a cool calm, guiding you to create a plan to stay safe and healthy. YOU = our priority.
Trans Lifeline is a national trans-led 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to improving the quality of trans lives by responding to the critical needs of our community with direct service, material support, advocacy, and education.
Text, Chat or Call. The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.
We believe that people in mental health recovery are the foremost experts on their own lives. Ultimately, we strive to help people harness that expertise to lead healthy and fulfilling lives of their own design
Aspire Health Alliance provides a continuum of care that is proactive, coordinated, available through multiple access points, and integrated with medical care
Boston Emergency Services team (B.E.S.T.), under the leadership of Boston Medical Center and with the support of the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership, provides a comprehensive, highly integrated system of crisis evaluation and treatment services to the greater Boston area;
Vibrant, innovative health system that serves everyone in need. Offers comprehensive mental health services for all ages and in many languages
provides psychiatric, counseling and substance abuse services to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
The Cole Resource Center offers access to a wide variety of programs and resources on mental health challenges and pathways to wellness for peers and families.
We offer a full suite of mental health and substance use treatment related services including psychotherapy, integrated lab testing, detoxification, and medication management.
We focus on family members and friends of those who are depressed, and caregivers that usually operate with little or no guidance or support.
non-profit, multicultural, community health center
We represent the voices of those living with mental illness in the areas of advocacy and the development of peer-run supports and services
counseling centers provide individual, group and family therapy as well as psychiatric and medication services.
compassionate community telephone service, staffed by Operators who have lived experience with mental health issues
Each year Riverside Community Care provides more than 40,000 children, adolescents, and adults with a broad range of behavioral healthcare and human services.
The Brookline Center for Community Mental Health provides outstanding, affordable mental health care and community-based social services that help individuals and families lead healthier, safer, and fuller lives while building the strongest, healthiest community possible
The Child and Family Counseling Center (CFCC) is a licensed outpatient mental health clinic
The Hope Center Recovery Learning Center (RLC) is a peer-run organization dedicated to providing support, education and advocacy to those who self-identify with a mental health and/or substance use history.
One of the longest-running and most diversified psychiatric services at a general hospital in Boston
non-profit human service agency with counseling programs, a residential campus and family-based outreach services.
The Association for Individual Development (AID) has served individuals with developmental, intellectual, physical and/or mental health challenges, those who have suffered a trauma and those at risk.
Center on Halsted is the Midwest's most comprehensive community center dedicated to advancing community and securing the health and well-being of the LGBTQ people of Chicagoland
At C4’s community mental health centers, we provide services for children, adolescents and adults. We help people manage mental health problems, overcome substance use and recover from traumas including sexual assault and abuse.
Friend Family is a federally qualified health center (FQHC) to continue to ensure access to quality care in medically underserved areas
Healthcare Alternative Systems, Inc. (H.A.S.) is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization providing behavioral health services to Chicago and the surrounding communities. The premier behavioral health resource for Chicago’s Latino community, H.A.S. provides culturally competent, bilingual (English and Spanish) services to a diverse population of adolescents and adults from all backgrounds
local Chicago affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness
We have a systematic coordination of general and behavioral healthcare.
Thresholds Youth & Young Adult Services offer groundbreaking programs for adolescents, young adults, families, young mothers, and their children. These programs give young people the skills and supports they need to master mental health challenges while reducing the negative impact of those challenges on relationships, health, education, and career development.
a private not-for-profit behavioral healthcare organization with more than 45 years of experience serving people with serious mental illness in the City of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs.
ACCESS operates 24 hours/day, 7 days/week as the entry point for mental health services in Los Angeles County.
ACCS is a trauma-informed, multicultural agency that provides skilled Mental Health and Case management Services for CHILDREN and ADULTS suffering from grief, acting-out behaviors, suicidality, depression, anxiety, trauma-related behavior and cognitive disorders as well as those experiencing domestic violence.
Provides clinical services and behavioral/psychoeducational assessments
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services has provided free mental health, substance use disorder and suicide prevention services since 1942
Mental health and welfare agency with 10 locations throughout Southern California
The Los Angeles LGBT Center offers individual, couples, family, and group therapy, as well as psychiatric care
The Clinic’s array of programs are designed to empower the children and young adults of South and Central L.A. to get on track to success – to reach goals in school, build healthy relationships, and enjoy emotional well-being.
Mental Health America of Los Angeles is a non-profit organization serving people living with mental illness in Los Angeles County.
NAMI Los Angeles South Central provides support and referral services to people in need
NULA provides education about severe brain disorders, supports increased funding for research, and advocates for adequate health insurance, housing rehabilitation, and jobs for people with serious psychiatric illnesses in communities of color. It also seeks to educate the public about the myths of mental illness to eradicate stigma.
(SCHARP) was founded February 1994 as a non-profit entity for the purpose of providing mental health and rehabilitation services to vulnerable ethnic minority populations in Southern California
Provides programs for children, adolescents, and transitional age youth (TAY) who face emotional, behavioral, and learning challenges and have difficulty succeeding in family or community living environments.
Call or Text. Created in 1980 by a group of mental health professionals who, through their personal work with teenagers, realized that a more inclusive approach to adolescent mental health was needed
APCTC was the first mental health center in Los Angeles County specifically developed to meet the unique needs of rapidly increasing numbers of Asian Pacific immigrants and refugees who were in need of a wide range of mental health services.
Bring Change to Mind is a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging dialogue about mental health, and to raising awareness, understanding, and empathy
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
BCFC is a New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) article 31 community based outpatient clinic located in Brooklyn providing services for children, adolescents, adults, families, and couples.
Community Access expands opportunities for people living with mental health concerns to recover from trauma and discrimination through affordable housing, training, advocacy, and healing-focused services.
Family Services of Westchester has been a private, not-for-profit, non-sectarian agency located in Westchester County
HMI believes youth service providers should utilize the studies of trauma-informed care, emotional wellness, and positive youth development in serving their communities. HMI believes all systems, policies, and organizations should be curated to make sure LGBTQ youth feel safe and included.
we provide a family atmosphere while catering to the local community with a wide array of mental health services. No matter your age, cultural, or religious background, you’ll feel at home with us.
In doing so, it has evolved into a vital center for mental health treatment, training and research. The Clinic continues to provide New Yorkers, from all backgrounds, the most professional and compassionate mental health care at an affordable cost.
Established in 1953, Long Island Consultation Center (LICC) In Queens, New York, is one of the oldest independent, private non-profit mental health centers in the United States
The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health was founded in 1962 in order to provide low cost psychological treatment for people with emotional problems.
Mosaic MH provides a compassionate network of care as varied as the communities it serves.
NAMI-NYC helps families and individuals affected by mental illness build better lives through education, support, and advocacy.
Call, Text or Chat. NYC Well is your connection to free, confidential mental health support.
Call or Chat. RAINN is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization.
JED is a nonprofit that exists to protect emotional health and prevent suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults.
For 50 years, Vibrant Emotional Health, formerly the Mental Health Association of New York City (MHA-NYC), has been at the forefront of promoting emotional well-being for all people.
Alameda Family Services is a human services organization, active in Alameda and the East Bay, whose programs improve the emotional, psychological and physical health of children, youth and families.
AFS is a foster, adoptions and mental health agency that has been creating safe, permanent connections for foster children and youth in the Bay Area since 1978.
Ann Martin Center is an East Bay nonprofit organization founded in 1963 to support emotional health and school success for at-risk youth.
BACS provides behavioral health, housing, and aging services for teens, adults, older adults, and their families.
At UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, the Division of Mental Health & Child Development is the result of the joint effort of multiple disciplines, drawing together the resources and expertise of multiple hospital programs
Founded in 1966, Crisis Support Services of Alameda County offers a broad range of counseling, education and prevention services in a safe environment. CSS’ 24-hour crisis hotline responds to more than 65,000 calls each year
non-profit organization of mental health professionals and dedicated volunteers that provide a number of mental health and supportive services to low income, multi-stressed individuals and familie
Fred Finch Youth Center has been providing intensive community-based mental health services for youth in homes, schools, and clinics for over two decades.
La Familia has a 40 year history of providing high-quality mental health and community support services in the San Francisco Bay Area.
NAMI helps families and individuals affected by mental illness build better lives through education, support, and advocacy.
PEERS is a mental health consumer-run organization that specializes in mental health and wellness training, programs and services, and media projects.
For 50 years, West Oakland Health has championed the health of the East Bay African American community and strives to meet the needs of the region’s growing and diverse population.
Nonprofit childrne's community psychology clinic
Provides free, anonymous, and confidential telephone services to individuals who are contemplating suicide, struggling with life’s challenges, or in need of someone to listen.
Not for profit counseling center serving the needs of individuals, couples, families and children.
CHH is a private practice that offers specialized outpatient mental health treatment to adolescents and adults
Services include specialized programs for pregnant and parenting mothers, adolescents, and people suffering from co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse.
HealthyMindsPhilly.org is an online tool and resource designed to support and improve the mental health and well-being of all Philadelphians, regardless of zip code, insurance or income status.
At Horizon House, our community-based treatment services incorporate a variety of customized needs-based services to support people living with ongoing mental illness.
Interact’s Behavioral Health Division partners with people in recovery from mental health and addiction challenges and their supporters with the goal of enriching their lives through improving their health and wellness and fostering hope in realizing their full potential.
Mental Health Partnerships was founded, and continues to thrive, on the basic principle that people with mental health conditions can and do recover because they have the resilience to direct their own journeys in overcoming significant adversity.
Works with thousands of people every year to improve and maintain mental wellness
Peer-run, peer-owned, wellness-oriented community center where people with psychiatric conditions can congregate and socialize in a safe environment, free from the stigma imposed by society
Call, Chat or Text. CCY is a statewide, grassroots nonprofit organization that serves disconnected youth ages 12-24 throughout the state.
we offer a comprehensive, integrated set of health care, education, and social services to help individuals and families achieve physical and mental health, overcome the life challenges they face, and enjoy the same opportunities as any other citizen
The program provides outpatient mental health treatment. Services integrate the strengths of each individual and family relationships, respond to individual cultural differences, and incorporate each individual’s needs into treatment plans.
Mary's Center, founded in 1988, is a Community Health Center that provides health care, family literacy and social services to individuals whose needs too often go unmet by the public and private systems. The Mary’s Center School Based Mental Health (SBMH) Program supports children, families, and communities by promoting behavioral wellness. Established in 2014, SBMH currently partners with 19 public schools in Wards 1, 4, and 5 in Washington, DC.
NAMI is the nation's largest grassroots organization providing advocacy, education, support, and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.
For over forty years, The Women’s Center has provided mental health counseling, support and education to the metropolitan area to help people live healthy, stable and productive lives.Since The Women’s Center was founded in 1974, we have grown to include service to women, men, families, young adults and children