Resources
If someone needs help tonight — and where your family turns next.
Every number here is a public, verified crisis or navigation line — never a treatment-facility intake number. Call any of them just to talk; you never have to be sure it's "serious enough," and every one of them will talk to a worried family member.
Crisis & navigation lines
Emergency
If you fear for your loved one's life tonight — or anyone is in immediate danger — call 911 now.
988 Suicide Crisis Helpline
24/7
Call or text 988 — free, anywhere in Canada. For you or for them: if anyone in this is thinking about self-harm, start here.
ConnexOntario — addiction & mental-health navigation
24/7
Free, confidential information and referral for substance use and mental health in Ontario. They talk to worried family members too — call before your person is willing, so the plan is ready.
Kids Help Phone — for the kids in the house
24/7
Free, confidential support for young people across Canada, any hour, about anything — including a parent's or sibling's addiction.
Rooms for your side of the problem
Free peer support for the family's own recovery — in your town, this week, and you don't have to say a word at your first one. Every link goes to the organization's own official site. If you're here because you've already lost someone: these lines and rooms hold grief too, and there is nothing for sale on this page.
Al-Anon — official meeting finder
Meetings in person and online, nationwide
Free peer support for people affected by someone else's drinking. Nobody signs you up, nobody tells your loved one you came, and nobody makes you talk. The official finder is the only current source for meeting times.
Nar-Anon — for families facing drugs
The same idea, for people affected by someone else's drug use — parents, partners, adult children, friends. Same free, first-names-only structure.
Families Anonymous
Peer support for relatives and friends worried about someone's drug use or related behaviour — many parents of teens and adult children land here.
CoDA — Co-Dependents Anonymous
For people who keep finding themselves in the rescuer's chair, relationship after relationship, and want to understand why.
Want a person to walk it through with you?
Take the private reflection, or ask us to make one warm introduction to a matched, licensed provider — free, and only with your consent. The callback comes to you, never to your loved one.