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Distress and Crisis Ontario (DCO), is a provincial association that primarily supports training & education, advocacy, and networking for distress centres across 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. Visit our Member locations page to find a centre near you or click here to learn more about us.
Building a caring partnership for close to 50 years, the Ontario Association of Distress Centres, operating as Distress and Crisis Ontario (DCO), has worked with its membership to increase the capacity of community based organizations offering distress and crisis line services and providing suicide prevention support. Benefits for our Members include: the ability to network with other Members; access to an asynchronous learning platform for leadership, staff, and volunteers; monthly webinars that provide dedicated training and networking opportunities for volunteers, staff, and leadership; leadership-only webinars as often as possible; and more. Learn more with the “Become a Member” button above. DCO also actively participates in local, provincial, national, and international initiatives and research projects to promote mental health, suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention, and substance use support. Additionally, DCO provides free resources to the public through our weekly “DCO Discourse…” podcast episodes, our monthly e-newsletter, daily posts on our social media pages, and multiple forms of information-sharing available on our website.
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Our Learning Forum videos are available to our Member centres and their volunteers as a way to provide training and education. If you are a Member centre employee or volunteer, please login to access the Learning Forum.
Thank You to Our Major Funder and Supporter
We would like to thank LifeLine International for their grant of $3,500.00 to support our Clyde Mental Health and Addictions Awareness Project. Their funding will go towards continually raising awareness and providing tools to professionals and communities of individuals, families, and interest groups to aid them in supporting suicide prevention and intervention.
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If you are in distress or crisis and need immediate support, please call one of the Distress Centres or Crisis Lines listed in the Get Help section of this website or, for help finding other mental health service providers, look at our Useful Information section. Distress and Crisis Ontario itself is an administrative organization and does not provide telephone listening or referrals!
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PO Box 40115
RPO Waterloo Square
Waterloo, Ontario, N2J 4V1
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Distress and Crisis Ontario is dedicated to being an LGBTQ2+ safe space, committed to inclusion and respect.
Distress and Crisis Ontario is a member of good standing of the Internation Association of Suicide Prevention and LifeLine International, as well as The American Association of Suicidology and Addictions and Mental Health Ontario.
We respectfully acknowledge that Distress and Crisis Ontario is a virtual organization whose employees work remotely in areas largely located on the Haldimand tract, the treaty and traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples.
This territory is part of the Two Row Wampum, Friendship Belt, and Dish with One Spoon Treaties. It symbolizes the agreement to share and protect our resources and not engage in conflict. We strive to honour these treaties as respectful neighbours on this land.
Distress and Crisis Ontario is committed to advancing truth and reconciliation through the promotion of education and working towards the transformative calls to action outlined by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and by all Indigenous communities across Canada.
We are committed to listening, learning, reflecting, and adapting our approaches to better facilitate reconciliation and create welcoming spaces for all individuals.
We offer our gratitude to the First Peoples for their care for, and teachings about, our earth and our relations. May we honour those teachings.