Emergency
Open all day and nightSomeone is in immediate danger, not breathing, seizing, or badly hurt.
Numbers that work, people who answer, and services on the ground here. If you are in danger right now, start at the top of this page.
All four of these are answered around the clock, every day of the year. You do not need to be in a crisis to call one.
Someone is in immediate danger, not breathing, seizing, or badly hurt.
Call or text, anywhere in Canada, any time. You do not have to be in crisis to call.
988Text 988
Counselling and crisis support for all Indigenous people across Canada. Available in Cree, Ojibway and Inuktitut on request, as well as English and French.
Online chat at hopeforwellness.ca. Language availability varies week to week, so ask when you call.
The local line, run by the Canadian Mental Health Association in Lethbridge. They will listen, and they know what else is out there.
lethbridge.cmha.ca/programs/crisis-services/distress-line-of-south-western-alberta
Lines staffed by people who will not need you to explain the history first.
Counselling and crisis support for First Nations, Inuit and Métis, by phone or online chat.
For former students of residential schools and their families, including intergenerational survivors.
For anyone affected by the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Health services for Kainai members, on and off reserve.
Shelter and stabilization run by the Blood Tribe Department of Health, open around the clock.
www.btdh.ca/program/lethbridge-wellness-shelterand-stabilization-unit
Programs, referrals and a place to walk into. 1709 2 Avenue South, Lethbridge.
Blackfoot-led family support and cultural programming in Lethbridge.
Court work, family support and healing programs across the province.
If you are using alone, call or text and someone stays on the line with you. They call for help if you stop answering. No judgement, no police unless it is needed.
Spelled out, that is 1-888-688-NORS.
Information, support and referral for anyone worried about their own or someone else’s substance use.
The way into addiction and mental health services in the south zone.
We run naloxone training regularly, and you leave with a kit. Free.
Advice, support and referral for any mental health concern.
A nurse, any time, for any health question. Good first call when you are not sure how serious something is.
Crisis services, peer support and counselling in Lethbridge.
A course on what to do when someone is in crisis and you are the person who is there.
Counselling for anyone up to 29, by phone, text or chat.
1-800-668-6868Text CONNECT to 686868
For young people and for the adults around them.
Child and family services for Kainai families.
Advice and referral, in more than 170 languages, whether it is happening to you or to somebody you know.
No area code needed anywhere in Alberta.
Emergency shelter for women and children fleeing violence.
The crisis line is answered around the clock.
Support and counselling after sexual assault, whenever it happened. Formerly the Chinook Sexual Assault Centre.
The first number is the 24-hour crisis intake line. The second is the office.
Call, text or chat and they will find you the right service. Housing, food, income, anything. More than 170 languages.
211Text INFO to 211
Meals, clothing, outreach and the Parkside shelter. 711 2A Avenue North.
Emergency shelter.
Volunteers out on the streets of Lethbridge every Sunday evening with water, food, warm clothes and naloxone.
If somebody has eaten a plant they cannot identify, this is the number.
Alberta’s poison centre. Call before you do anything else, and call 911 as well if the person is seizing, struggling to breathe or losing consciousness.