Mental Health Resources
Welcome to the Mental Health Resources page! Here you’ll find a number of external sources providing information on mental illness, stress, and seeking help for what you may be struggling with.
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Please note that if you are experiencing a mental health crisis or are in an emergency, you should call 911 or one of the following crisis hotlines:
Canada Suicide Prevention Service: 833-456-4566
Kids Help Phone: CALL 1-800-668-6868 or TEXT 686868
We’ve split this page into three main sections, all of which you can navigate to by clicking the title below.
211
211 is Canada’s primary source of information for government and community-based, non-clinical health and social services. The free and confidential service can be accessed 24 hours a day, in more than 150 languages, by phone, chat, text, and web.
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211 helps connect people to the right information and services, making their pathway to care and resources a guided and trusted one.
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211 is available by phone, chat, website, and text in different regions – dial 2-1-1 to connect to community services.
Promotion and Education
Public Health
Health promotion is the process of implementing a range of social and environmental interventions that enable people and communities to increase control over and to improve their health. Public Health offers expertise and resources on health promotion including promoting healthy behaviours, creating supportive environments and encouraging healthy public policies.
Canadian Mental Health Association
Information about child and youth mental health issues and services in Ontario put together by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA). includes information and services for addiction services, anger, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, family and caregiver support, gender-diverse and sexual-minority youth, Indigenous children and youth, justice and youth mental health, legal issues, loss and grief, mental health resources in schools, psychosis, residential treatment, self-harm, stress, substance abuse, suicide, transitioning from youth to adult mental health services.
The Science of Well-Being Course
The Science of Well-Being is a FREE course offered by Yale that will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.
ConnexOntario
ConnexOntario maintains a centralized, up-to-date, and accurate database of detailed drug, alcohol, problem gambling, and mental health treatment service information.
This information includes:
where the service is located
how to access the service
how long the wait to access the service may be
Information contained in the ConnexOntario database is used for planning purposes by healthcare professionals, and health system planners, managers, and stewards in the province of Ontario.
Prevention, Early Intervention and Support
Kids Help Phone
At AEYouthHub, we strive to empower the lives of youth in the San Francisco community through our variety of programs. Our Educational Workshops is designed to provide youngsters with all the tools they need to be great leaders tomorrow. We are happy to be the driving force behind the development of our children, and hope to continue making a difference in their lives.
Wes for Youth
AEYouthHub empowers youth in the greater San Francisco area to reach their fullest potential through a wide range of services. We care about our children, and provide them with a number of enrichment programs to help shape their identity. Our Volunteering Trips provides our youth the chance to get involved in the community and meet new and exciting faces from all walks of life. Come experience it for yourself today!
Victim Services
Since 2000, we have contributed to the development of children in the greater San Francisco area through our wide range of programs. Our Fundraising Opportunities is centered on instilling strong values into our youth and provides a space for them to expand their mind while meeting new and interesting individuals.
Big Brothers Big Sisters Grey Bruce
At AEYouthHub, we strive to empower the lives of youth in the San Francisco community through our variety of programs. Our Educational Workshops is designed to provide youngsters with all the tools they need to be great leaders tomorrow. We are happy to be the driving force behind the development of our children, and hope to continue making a difference in their lives.
Canadian Mental Health Association’s Bounce Back Program
At AEYouthHub, we strive to empower the lives of youth in the San Francisco community through our variety of programs. Our Educational Workshops is designed to provide youngsters with all the tools they need to be great leaders tomorrow. We are happy to be the driving force behind the development of our children, and hope to continue making a difference in their lives.
Mental Health Crisis Line
AEYouthHub empowers youth in the greater San Francisco area to reach their fullest potential through a wide range of services. We care about our children, and provide them with a number of enrichment programs to help shape their identity. Our Volunteering Trips provides our youth the chance to get involved in the community and meet new and exciting faces from all walks of life. Come experience it for yourself today!
Assessment and Treatment
Keystone Child, Youth and Family Services
Keystone is a family-engaged counselling and coordinating lead mental health agency for children, youth and families in Grey and Bruce.
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Keystone accepts referrals or self-referrals from families, physicians, schools or service providers.
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Services available through Keystone include but are not limited to quick response clinics, individual or family counselling, workshops for parents, children and youth, birth to 6 years counselling, Live-in Treatment (LIT), youth justice supports, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder program, coordinated service planning, and coordinated access. It should be noted that Keystone is not an emergency service.
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Call Keystone Intake at (519) 371-4773 Ext 180
Youth Mental Health programs at the Chippewas of Nawash Health Centre
The program at Chippewas of Nawash Health Centre is planned and coordinated by Marleen Vogl. Â they provide services to children and families of children aged 7 to 18 years, with referrals, support and programming. Â The program promotes healthy living to children and families.
CHOICES Drug and Alcohol Counselling for Youth
Serves youth up to age 20 who are concerned about their own or someone else’s substance use. Counsellors work directly with youth and their families in the Owen Sound office as well as high school sites throughout Grey Bruce. Clients can be self-referred or referred by a concerned other. For intake call 519-371-5487.
Grey Bruce Health Services
If someone is is in crisis and experiencing an emergency, there are two options:
– person is transported to hospital by family member or ambulance; and,
– Contact Hospital Crisis Team.
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The Grey Bruce Health Mental Health and Addictions department includes a wide range of comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services. We have an acute care psychiatric inpatient unit, a psychogeriatic unit, as well as a psychiatric intensive care unit in Owen Sound.
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Crisis services are available 24/7 across all Emergency Departments in Grey Bruce. The Mental Health Crisis Line is also available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week at: 1-877-470-5200.