Resources
We have vetted the following resources to be evidence-based, practical, and accessible to Canadians. Our resource library contains content for the general public as well as specifically for helping professionals. Feel free to send us suggestions for new resources!
2SLGBTQIA+ Terminology Reference Guide
A basic education resource for anyone who wants to understand what language is most respectful when describing people who experience marginalizations that they do not share.
7 Cups
Anonymous virtual chat with caring listeners for free emotional support.
9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline
Text or call 9-8-8 for a safe space to talk 24/7 every day of the year. Reach out if you are feeling like you have lost hope and are struggling to cope, if you are dealing with thoughts of suicide, or if you are worried about someone else.
A Life Promotion Toolkit by Indigenous Youth
Strengthening Our Connections to Promote Life: A Life Promotion Toolkit by Indigenous Youth was proposed in 2019 to develop a youth-focused and youth-led response to suicide, mental wellness, and substance use in Indigenous communities.
Action Canada: for Sexual Health + Rights
The Access Line is a 7-day a week toll-free, confidential phone and text line. It is available for questions about sexual health, pregnancy options, abortion, and safer sex. We provide information and make referrals to sexual health providers.
1‑888‑642‑2725
Allies & Solidarity - OUT Saskatoon
A starting place for people who are interested in supporting the vast, diverse, and wonderful 2SLGBTQ community.
Anna Freud: Self-Care Strategies
Created for and by young people aged 11-25.
Antidepressant Skills Workbook
The Antidepressant Skills Workbook is a step-by-step guide to changing patterns that trigger depression. This workbook is based on scientific research about which strategies work best in managing depression.
Anxiety Disorders: An Information Guide
This guide is for people with anxiety disorders, their families, partners, friends and anyone else who might be interested. The many aspects of anxiety disorders discussed in this book will answer some common questions, and help readers discuss anxiety disorders with treatment providers.
Be There
Step-by-step guide on how to be there for people struggling with their mental health.
Black Mental Health Canada
Black Mental Health Canada (BMHC) advocates for culturally safe, accessible, and affordable mental health care to the diverse Black communities in Canada.
Black Mental Health Canada - Provider Directory
A directory of black providers and non-black allies who provide counselling for black individuals and families.
Black Youth Helpline
Anyone can initiate contact for support! Simply contact us by phone, email or connect with us through our contact us page. Briefly tell us what is happening and we will respond in a timely manner.
Call 416-285-9944
Toll Free 1-833-294-8650
Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Families
A guide for families on supporting and understanding loved ones with a borderline personality disorder.
Bounce Back - Canadian Mental Health Association
A free program designed to help adults and youth 15+ manage low mood, mild to moderate depression, anxiety, stress or worry.
BridgePoint Center for Eating Disorders: Resource Guide
A compilation of resources for those who struggle with body-image and/or eating disorders.
Calm Harm
Calm Harm provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm.
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
Promotes drug policies that are grounded in compassion and guided by science with the goal to shift the public narrative on substance use and people who use drugs.
Centre for Suicide Prevention: Safety Plans
This guide will help you to create a safety plan that supports and guides someone when they are experiencing thoughts of suicide.
Centre for Suicide Prevention: Self-Harm and Suicide
Learn more about self-harm and how it is related to suicide.
CMHA - Anger Guide
We all feel angry sometimes. Most of the time, we can deal with feelings of anger or irritability quickly. We may resolve the situation or look at the problem from a different perspective. However, anger can cause problems in our lives and the lives of those around us. Learn more about recognizing problem anger and taking action.
Coming Out: A Handbook for LGBTQ Young People
The Trevor Project’s Coming Out: A Handbook for LGBTQ Young People is here to help you navigate questions around your identity.
Conversations You Need to Have About Mental Illness
Conversation guides for talking with friends, teenagers, and co-workers.
Coping Skills for Kids: Anger
Kid-friendly coping skills used to help manage anger, including safe ways to express anger, books to read and videos that can help.
Coping Skills for Kids: Anxiety
Kid tested strategies used by child therapists for calming anxiety, including ideas to calm down, books to read and videos that can help.
Coping Skills for Kids: Stress
A therapist’s favorite strategies to cope with stress in safe and healthy ways, with stress management techniques for children, teens and families.
Cornell University: Self-injury & Recovery Resources
Resources on self-harm for people who self-injure, friends and families, and helping professionals.
Counselling Connect Saskatchewan
Free access to rapid access counselling sessions for youth, adult, and families in Saskatchewan.
Creating a Crisis Plan
A worksheet for crisis care planning. A crisis plan (sometimes called a safety plan) can sound intimidating, but think of it like a tool: a gameplan for navigating the worst days.
Crisis Text Line
Text HOME to 686868 from anywhere in Canada to connect with a Crisis Responder. Powered through Kids Help Phone, but a service for all ages.
Dealing with Psychosis Toolkit
There are many ways to use this toolkit. You can start in any section and work through the toolkit in any order. Some of the topics may be more useful to you than others. Pick and choose what parts you want to work on.
Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders in Racialized Communities
Guides to eating disorders in the Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour communities by and for community members and carers.
Early Psychosis Intervention: Warning Signs
Learn early warning signs that someone may be at risk for or is currently experiencing psychosis.
Educator's Guide to Inclusive Language
Inclusive language may feel challenging and awkward to use. Take the time to look through these suggestions, and find time to practice whenever possible.
Embracing Life
A way to help yourself feel more positive and connected. A way to reach out and support someone you’re worried about.
- Safety Planning
- Practicing Gratitude
- Suicide Prevention Information
- Conversation Starters on Suicide
- Resources
Fact Sheets about Mood Disorders
Fact sheets on common mood disorders including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and seasonal affective disorder.
Families for Addiction Recovery
Families for Addiction Recovery (FAR) supports those concerned about a loved one’s substance use through three free and confidential services. All of our peer supporters have lived experience of supporting a loved one with addiction.
Farm Stress Line
The 24/7 Farm Stress Line can help if you are managing farm difficulties by providing support for farmers and ranchers. Confidential support in a safe, neutral and non-judgmental environment.
1-800-667-4442
Foundry BC: Questioning Reality Self-check
This is a self-check that can help you find out if you might be experiencing symptoms of psychosis.
Heads Up Guys
An anonymous resource specifically designed for men, and their families, to arm men with the tools they need to fight depression, as well as recovery stories from men who have faced depression.
Heads Up Guys: What To Do in a Crisis
A guide for times of crisis – whether that means you’re no longer able to care for yourself, are thinking of hurting yourself or ending your life, or hurting someone else.
Help Guide
A trusted resource to learn more about diverse mental health issues.
Help Guide to Anger Management
These tips and techniques can help you get anger under control and express your feelings in healthier ways.
Help Guide to Anxiety
Are worries, fears, or panic attacks making it hard to function or enjoy life? Learn about the various types of anxiety disorders and their symptoms, and what you can do to take back control and regain your peace of mind.
Help Guide: Cutting and Self-Harm
Learn about self-injury and how you can feel better without harming yourself.
Help Guide: PTSD & Trauma
A collection of articles on PTSD and trauma.
Here to Help: Anger Management
Read on to find out if you have a problem with managing your anger and what to do about it.
Hey Peers
Peer support groups, one-to-one coaching, and private chatrooms where you can find meetings and conversations that can help you on your journey.
Hope for Wellness
Call or live chat via website below.
Immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada.
1-855-242-3310
How to Identify and Overcome Trauma Triggers
Learn more about how and why you become triggered and strategies to manage these triggers.
How to Take Care of Yourself
No matter what you’re going through, we want you to know you’re not alone. Here you’ll find everyday practices that can help you care for yourself, accept difficult feelings, and find support.
How to Tell Someone You Have an Eating Disorder
Telling someone your concerns about the eating disorder and about recovery can be daunting. This page aims to help you have conversations that will give you the encouragement and support you deserve on the path to recovery.
Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program
Provides cultural and emotional support, and mental health counselling services to Survivors of Indian Residential Schools and the families of former students.
Indigenous Story Studio
Indigenous Story Studios creates illustrations, posters, videos, and comic books on health and social issues for youth.
Kids Help Phone
A collection of mental health tools to support kids and youth through tough times.
Kids Help Phone: Counselling Services
You can reach a professional counsellor at Kids Help Phone in English or French 24/7 by calling 1-800-668-6868.
Kids Help Phone: Text Support
With Kids Help Phone’s texting service, you can chat with a trained, volunteer crisis responder for support any time, about anything, via text message. Free, confidential, and available across Canada 24/7. You don’t need a data plan, Internet connection or an app to use it. Text 686868.
Klinic: Trauma-Informed Toolkit
This toolkit explores how health care and social services can become trauma-informed.
Lifeline: Support Toolkit
Find resources and strategies to care for yourself when you’re feeling overwhelmed.
Lindsay Braman: Rainbow of Emotional Regulation
A helpful infographic explaining the window of tolerance (our capacity to cope with different circumstances).
Live Through This
A collection of portraits and true stories of suicide attempt survivors.
Mensline Austrailia: Anger Management Toolkit
Worksheets designed to assist you in developing your personal skills to better manage your anger.
Mental Health Works: An Accommodation Guide
The purpose of this Guide is to outline some key skills that managers should have when presented with an employee who has a mental health concern.
My Kid Is Gay
My Kid Is Gay is a first-of-its-kind digital presence, inclusive of videos, advice, and resources, dedicated exclusively toward helping parents understand their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual children.
My Safety Plan: Disordered Eating
In collaboration with Kids Help Phone, this resource is a first-of-its-kind guide for creating a plan to keep yourself safer while coping with disordered eating.
NAN Hope: Rapid Access Counselling
Must be an Indigenous resident of Ontario. Free rapid access to counselling or crisis intervention through call or text: 1-844-626-4673.
National Autistic Society: Self-Harm and Autism
Learn more about self-harm in autistic people.
National Overdose Response Service
NORS is an overdose prevention hotline for Canadians providing loving, confidential, nonjudgmental support for you, whenever and wherever you use drugs.
1-888-688-6677
Eating Disorder Helpline
Phone, live chat, and e-mail services are available. You can share as much as you feel comfortable with, and from there we can work together and provide in the moment support, resources, or information. Toll-Free: 1-866-NEDIC-20
New Synapse
Learn 10 resiliency building skills to make progress in trauma recovery.
Nisa Helpline
Nisa Helpline is a confidential, anonymous & free helpline for Muslim women across North America that offers mental health support and peer counselling. Available seven days a week from 10 AM to 10 PM EST.
1-888-315-6472
NOCD
A collection of articles and resources related to OCD.
Nothing Much Happens
Busy minds need a place to rest. If you find yourself struggling to sleep, awake in the middle of the night, or just anxious as you move through the day, these stories can be a soft landing to you, a simple enjoyable way to focus and relax.
Now Matters Now
Skills and support for coping with suicidal thoughts.
OUTSaskatoon: Identities & Terms
A starting place to learn about the vast, diverse, and wonderful world of the 2SLGBTQ community.
Parents' A-Z Mental Health Guides
Our A-Z guide gives you advice on how to help your child with their feelings and behaviour, mental health conditions, and life events.
Pflag Canada
A guide for parents to help themselves and their family members understand and accept their LGBTQ2S children.
Progress Place: Warm Line
Are you feeling lonely, isolated, anxious, depressed or in need of a friendly ear? Chat online, text or call a Warm Line peer support worker. Call 416-960-WARM (9276) or text 647-557-5882. Available 6pm to midnight (EDT) 7 days a week.
Project Lets
Project LETS is a national (USA) grassroots organization and movement led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness/madness, Disability, trauma, & neurodivergence.
Project LETS: Self-Care
Crowdsourced self-care/collective-care strategies.
Psychosis 101
Better understand psychosis and if you might have it. Provides information on recovery and shares stories of people who have experienced psychosis.
Q List
The Q List a vast and varied referral list for businesses, organizations, professionals, and healthcare providers in Saskatoon that aim to be inclusive of 2SLGBTQ+ people.
Recovery Research Institute
The Recovery Research Institute is a leading nonprofit research institute dedicated to the advancement of addiction treatment and recovery. They translate the technical science of addiction medicine to allow everyday people to understand important findings.
Resources For Teaching Youth
A collection of age-appropriate slides, videos, and lesson plans for teaching Elementary & Secondary school youth about a variety of topics including Healthy Relationships, Contraceptives, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Rejection & Boundaries, and Puberty.
Rootd App
Panic attack & anxiety relief right in your pocket.
SaskAgMatters Mental Health Network Inc.
For agriculture producers, their family members and agricultural workers in Saskatchewan. Provides six free counselling sessions with trained and registered mental health professionals.
Schizophrenia Society of Canada: Hope and Recovery Guide
This guide has been developed to provide information and guidance to young people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and those who support them.
Seize the Awkward
Starting a conversation about mental health does not need to be uncomfortable, and it can make all the difference. Check out these resources to learn how to support a friend – or get help for yourself.
Self Compassion Exercises & Guided Meditation
A helpful list of guided meditations and exercises for practicing self-compassion.
Self-Care Flow Chart
This is meant to be an interactive flow chart for people who struggle with self care, executive dysfunction, and/or who have trouble reading internal signals.
Sexfluent
Welcome to a community of young people who are unapologetically curious about exploring their bodies and sexuality, while inspiring others to do the same.
We embrace our differences because that’s what makes each and every one of us unique and beautiful!
Suicide Is Different
Tools to help you if you are worried about someone struggling with thoughts of suicide.
Talking Stick
Talking Stick is a text-only chat platform for Indigenous people. It provides culture-based support on any topic at all. It’s a safe place to have confidential, judgement-free conversations with someone who is also Indigenous themselves.
The Empathy Menu
A list of different ways to show empathy through our actions.
The OCD Challenge
OCD Challenge is designed to give you the tools you need to successfully manage your OCD. Through an interactive experience, you can customize the program to tackle your specific Obsessive Compulsive Disorder symptoms.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project provides 24/7 crisis support services to LGBTQ young people. Text, chat, or call anytime to reach a trained counsellor.
Thunderbird Wellness App
The Thunderbird Wellness App promotes a strengths-based, trauma informed approach to supporting Indigenous wellness. The App provides tangible ways to support First Nations, from opioid and methamphetamine use, to treatment, prevention, addressing stigma associated with substance use and how to support harm reduction strategies, all presented in a user friendly, culturally grounded way.
Trans and Gender Diverse Mental Health, Wellness and Suicide Prevention Toolkit
SPECTRUM, Waterloo Region’s Rainbow Community Space, developed this toolkit on trans mental wellness and suicide prevention in response to trans community needs and priorities.
Trans Lifeline
877-330-6366
Trans Lifeline’s Hotline is a peer support phone service run by trans people for our trans and questioning peers.
TransCare+
TransCare+ is a community-based organization run by and for queer and gender diverse folx. TransCare+ operates as a knowledge hub, educational platform/service provider, and care collective.
Trauma-Informed Oregon
A centralized source of information and resources for trauma-informed efforts.
We Matter
We Matter is a place to help Indigenous youth get through hard times, whether you need support yourself or want to support someone you know.
What To Say to Someone With an Eating Disorder
There are many sources to find online as to what can trigger someone with an eating disorder. However, you’re likely left with one important question on your mind: So what should we say to someone recovering from an eating disorder?
What’s Up Walk-In
Toronto’s only free, six-day-a-week mental health counselling walk-in service for infants, children, youth, young adults, and families.
Words Matter: The Language of Addiction
Addiction is a disease. It’s important that we use language that frames it as a health issue and shows respect to people with addiction and their families who are impacted. Just like we would with any other disease, like diabetes or asthma.
Workplace Mental Health
Mental health resources specifically for the workplace.
YoungMinds: Self-Harm Guide
A guide to learn what self-harm is, signs of self-harm in a young person, and how to support a youth who self-harms.
Youth Line
Confidential, non-judgemental, and informed 2SLGBTQ+ peer support through text and chat services. Get in touch with a peer support volunteer from Sunday to Friday, 4:00PM to 9:30 PM EST.
