Free Youth Resources Across Canada

Action Canada for Sexual Health & Rights

Toll free: 1-888-642-2725 

Sexual and reproductive health information & referrals, including abortion care (anywhere in Canada), 9am-9pm EST 

Kids Help Phone

Toll-free: 1-800-668-6868  

Text (for free, no data plan needed): 686868 

Live Webchat

24/7 free/ confidential support for youth on anything they want to discuss. Online education resources available.

Sex & U

Resource provided by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.

Evidence based, scientific sexual health information. 

National LGBTQ Youth Talk Line

Toll Free: 1-800-246-7743

Provides confidential peer support for youth 12-25yrs 

KUU-US Crisis Line Society

Toll-free: 1-800-588-8717  
Youth Line: 250-723-2040  
Adult Line: 250-723-4050 

First Nations and Aboriginal specific crisis line available 24/7, regardless of where individuals reside in BC.

Hope for Wellness Helpline

Phone: 1-855-242-3310 

Offers immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada. Phone and chat counselling is available in English, French, and Cree, Ojibway and Inuktitut on request.

Trans Lifeline

Toll Free: 1-877-330-6366

Trans Lifeline is a non-profit dedicated to the wellbeing of transgender people. We run a hotline staffed by transgender people for transgender people 

1-800-SUICIDE

Toll Free: 1-800-784-2433

If you are in distress or are worried about someone in distress who may hurt themselves, call SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) 24 hours a day to connect to a crisis line, without a wait or busy signal. 

Métis Crisis Line

Phone: 1-833-638-4722

Provides 24/7 mental health support, including crisis intervention and access to crisis programs.

Healing in Colour

Provides a list of therapists for BIPOC / IBPOC communities.

RiseUp

Text: 686868 (no data needed)

Wellness support line for African, Caribbean and Black youth who want mental health support

Indian Residential School Survivors Society

Toll-free: 1-(800)-721-0066  

24hr Crisis Line: 1-(866)-925-4419 

Main: (604) 985-4464 

IRSSS provides essential services to Residential School Survivors, their families, and to those dealing with intergenerational traumas. 

Regional

    • Options for Sexual Health Telemedicine: Virtual, 7 days a week.

      1-800-739-7367

    • Sex Sense Phone: Free, pro-choice, sex-positive & confidential guidance on sex, sexuality, sexual health  

      Open Monday-Friday, 9am-9pm

      Team of registered nurses, sexual health educators & counsellors 

      1-800-739-7367

    • Island Sexual Health: Inclusive clinical services: STI, birth control, gender affirming care, education and advocacy.

      250-592-3479 

      #101-3960 Quadra Street, Victoria, BC 

    • PrideLine BC

      Phone: 1-800-566-1170 

      One-to-one support for LGBTQ+ (and questioning) youth  

  • 2S/LGBTQIA+ community services and resources.

    • Teen Health Source:

      Education, resources, GTA area services community and clinical services. 

    • Good2Talk:

      Call 1-866-925-5454

      Text: GOOD2TALKON to 686868

      Live chat on website

      Free, confidential support services for post-secondary students. Phone and text peer-to-peer support.  

    • Clinique l’Actuel:

      Sexual health and vaccination clinic (see vaccines available on site), low-cost STBBI testing. 

    • Aire Ouverte:

      Health services for young people aged 12 to 25. Services are free of charge, confidential and available by walk in or appointment. Services include mental health, sexual health, substance use and relationship issues.  

    • Jeunesse Lambda:

      Community organization for LGBTQ+ youth aged 14-30. Services include mental health support, gender affirming services and articles, name change support. 

    • Interligne:

      1-888-505-1010 (phone & text)

      help@interligne.co

      live chat available.

      24-hour help and information service for LGBTQ+ people, their loved ones and community support workers.

    • Good2Talk:

      Call 1-833-292-3698

      Text: GOOD2TALKNS to 686868

      Free, confidential support services for post-secondary students. Phone and text peer-to-peer support.  

    • Nunavut Kamatsiaqtut Help Line

      867-979-3333

      Toll Free: 1-800-265-3333

      24 hour anonymous and confidential phone counselling for northerners in crisis by trained volunteers 

      confidential and anonymous telephone counselling on sexually transmitted infections (STI), including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and all sexual health issues.