Emergency
Open all day and nightSomeone is in immediate danger, not breathing, seizing, or badly hurt.
If you are in danger right now, start with the numbers just below.
You do not need to be in a crisis to call.
Someone is in immediate danger, not breathing, seizing, or badly hurt.
Call or text, anywhere in Canada. You do not have to be in crisis to call.
988Text 988
Counselling and crisis support for all Indigenous people across Canada, by phone or online chat.
In English and French, plus Cree, Ojibway and Inuktitut on request. Language availability varies week to week, so ask when you call.
The local line, run by CMHA 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.
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.
Their website was down when we last checked. 211 can also confirm the number.
We could not confirm this one ourselves. Please check before you rely on it.
Court work, family support and healing programs across the province.
Using alone? Call or text and someone stays on the line and calls 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 for any health question. A 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 near you is in crisis.
Counselling for kids, teens and young adults, by phone, text or chat.
1-800-668-6868Text CONNECT to 686868
For young people and for the adults around them. Call or text.
310-1818Text 310-1818
No area code needed anywhere in Alberta.
Child and family services for Kainai families.
Advice and referral, for you or somebody you know, in more than 170 languages.
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.
403-694-1094 is the crisis line, 1-844-576-2512 is toll free. Its website lists Monday to Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, with evening appointments on request. Overnight, use the lines at the top of this page.
Call, text or chat and they will find you the right service, in more than 170 languages.
211Text INFO to 211
Meals, clothing, foot care and street outreach from a daytime drop-in at 711 2A Avenue North.
Open Monday to Friday 9 am to 12 pm, 1 pm to 6 pm and 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, and Saturday 9 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 4 pm. Not an overnight shelter.
The emergency shelter at 802 2A Avenue North, run by the Blood Tribe Department of Health.
www.btdh.ca/program/lethbridge-wellness-shelterand-stabilization-unit
Volunteers on Lethbridge streets every Sunday evening with water, food, warm clothes and naloxone.
If somebody has eaten a plant they cannot identify, this is the number.
Call before you do anything else, and call 911 as well if the person is seizing, struggling to breathe or losing consciousness.