Crisis Lines and Community Supports: Home
Websites, handouts, and posters that share crisis lines, and community supports for mental health, housing, food, harm reduction, and more.
LIFE THREATENING EMERGENCY | PHONE 9-1-1
- Services and Supports
SUMMARY: Lists of community sites and providers of mobile outreach, shelters for adults and youth, food, washrooms, and community patrols.
SOURCE: End Homelessness Winnipeg
POSTER | Crisis and Support Lines
- UPDATED - DECEMBER 2023 - Crisis and Support LinesSOURCE: compiled by Winnipeg Public Library.
Manitoba 211
- 211 MANITOBA
PHONE 2-1-1
24 hours, 7 days a week or search for services on their website.
211 Manitoba is a free, confidential, 24/7 service that connects individuals to government, health, and social services that are available across the province.
Klinic Crisis Line 24/7
204-786-8686 or 1-888-322-3019
Youth Crisis Line & Mobile Crisis Teams 24/7
For youth under age 21 and their families
204-949-4777 or 1-888-383-2776
Crisis Response Centre (18+) 24/7
204-940-1781
or go to 817 Bannatyne Avenue
Kids Help Phone 24/7
For children and teens
1-800-668-6868
Text: CONNECT to 686868
Facebook Messenger @KidsHelpPhone
Manitoba Domestic Abuse Crisis Line 24/7
1-877-977-0007
or text: 204-792-5302 or 204-805-6682
Manitoba Suicide Prevention & Support Line 24/7
1-877-435-7170
Hope for Wellness Line 24/7
For First Nations, Métis, or Inuit
1-855-242-3310
chat online at: hopeforwellness.ca
Indigenous cultural healing and mental health supports
- Indigenous Cultural Healing and Mental Health SupportsSOURCE: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, updated August 17, 2023.
SUMMARY: A list of resources and services with a focus on those delivered by Indigenous organizations or governments in Winnipeg and Manitoba, or by the provincial of federal government specifically for Indigenous Peoples.
Other supports and services
- Shelter Safe
SUMMARY: Find shelter listings and other information for women and their children seeking safety from violence and abuse.
- Street Connections - find harm reduction supplies and services
SUMMARY: Find out where to get free access to harm reduction supplies and services including: condoms, naxolone, needles, needle drop-off, pregnancy testing, HIV/STI testing, safe meth use kits/bubble pipes, safe crack use kits, HIV prevention medication / PrEP, drug checking, overdose prevention / supervised consumption services.
- Who do I call?SOURCE: Winnipeg Committee for Safety
SUMMARY: Download and print handouts with resources listings for different needs. *NOTE as of June, 2023: some information is dated.
- Mental Health Crisis and Non-Crisis Regional Contacts
SOURCE: Manitoba Government
- Mental Health Resource Guide for Winnipeg
SOURCE: Canadian Mental Health Association, Winnipeg
SUMMARY: 24th edition. 2023. Contact information for mental health services and related community-based supports.
- Manitoba Seniors Guide
SOURCE: 211 Manitoba
SUMMARY: Downloadable guides listing resources specific to seniors. There are guides for Manitoba, and specific to different regions - including Winnipeg.
- HELP SEEKER
SUMMARY: Search for community, health and social services in Winnipeg and other cities.
More from Winnipeg Public LIbrary
- Community Crisis Workers at the LibrarySUMMARY: Our Community Crisis Workers are available for one-on-one appointments. Ask them for information about: shelter and housing, social assistance, jobs, counselling, mental health programs and services, health care, and income tax.