Additional Public Support Resources

When you need help, there are people here for you!

• Access Mental Health - Calgary Zone

403-943-1500 (non-urgent)

• Distress Centre - Calgary

403-266-4357
SMS - 403-266-4357

9-8-8 is a new national three-digit helpline that provides urgent, live support by phone and text for anyone who is thinking about suicide, or who is worried about someone they know.    

Phone or text: 9-8-8

Distress Centre Calgary is a 9-8-8 partner and part of the network of crisis lines across the country whose responders take 9-8-8 calls and texts.  

• Access 24/7 - Edmonton Zone

780-424-2424 (non-urgent)

• Talk Suicide Canada

1-833-456-4566
SMS - 45645

• AHS Addictions Helpline

1-866-332-2322

• AHS Mental Health Help Line

1-877-303-2642

• 211 Alberta

Call 2-1-1

• Hope for Wellness

for all Indigenous People across Canada

1-855-242-3310

• Centre for Suicide Prevention

Centre for Suicide Prevention is an education centre, a centre of excellence, based in Calgary.

403-245-3900

Apps

• Calm Harm

Worried about self-harm?
Calm Harm is a free* app that helps you manage or resist the urge to self-harm.

• Clear Fear

Do you want to overcome anxiety?
Download the free* Clear Fear app.