The safety and mental wellness of players, families, teams, and organizations is the GTHL’s top priority. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out and consider one of the many provincial mental health supports below.
The GTHL encourages all to continue participation in regular physical activity, volunteering, and acts of kindness as all are proven to improve mental health in people of all ages.
Kids Help Phone:
Kids Help Phone is Canada’s only 24/7 e-mental health service offering free, multilingual and confidential support to help all young people Feel Out Loud.
Start a confidential conversation with a real person you can trust:
- Call: 1-800-668-6868
- Text (youth and minors): TALK to 686868
- Text (adults): WELLNESS to 741741
Find your local Canadian Mental Health Association
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) can found in 330 communities across the country, offering a range of programs, services, supports and expertise, and work in mental health priority areas.
Thinking of suicide or worried about someone you know? Call or text 9-8-8, toll-free, anytime, for support.
Children’s Mental Health Ontario Centres
Through a network of child and youth mental health centres, Children’s Mental Health Ontario has 4,000 child and youth mental healthcare workers across Ontario ready to help parents and their children. Free. No referral required.
The COPING Centre
COPING (Caring for Other People in Grief) is a registered, non profit, charitable organization, offering help and encouragement to everyone at no cost to the participants.
The COPING Centre offers a place for support, understanding, compassion, and encouragement in the uniqueness of one’s grief journey.
BounceBack
BounceBack® is a free skill-building program managed by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA). It is designed to help adults and youth 15+ manage low mood, depression, anxiety, stress or worry. Delivered over the phone with a coach and through online videos, you will get access to tools that will support you on your path to mental wellness.
Suicide Crisis Helpline
A safe space to talk, 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
- Call: 9-8-8
- Text: 9-8-8
Hope for Wellness Help Line
Offers immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada. Phone and chat counselling is available in English, French, Cree, Ojibway, and Inuktitut.
You can also call: 1-855-242-3310.
2SLGBTQ+ Support
YouthLine offers free support through our Ontario-wide 2SLGBTQ+ peer-support HelpLine. Chat, text, and email options are available.
You can also call 647-694-4275.
Distress and Crisis Ontario:
Distress centres offer 24/7 support and referrals at no cost to a caller experiencing distress or in active crisis including suicidal ideation. Centres sometimes have specialties such as 2SLGBTQIA+ friendly services, Indigenous support programs, support services for youth, telephone call-out programs for seniors and other vulnerable populations such as in the developmental sector or university population.
