Resources

The Hope for Wellness Helpline is available to all Indigenous people across Canada. Experienced and culturally competent counsellors are reachable by telephone and online ‘chat’ 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Both telephone and online chat services are available in English and French. Telephone support is also available upon request in:

• Cree;
• Ojibway (Anishinaabemowin);
• Inuktitut.

A front-line community organization with a regional scope whose mission is to welcome, listen to and equip anyone who is going through a difficult time, a period of transition, so that they can regain their strength and their power to act, for themselves and for their community.

The Centre d’amitié autochtone de Sept-Îles (CAASI) is a community organization that offers a continuum of culturally relevant and safe services to improve the quality of life of Indigenous people living in or passing through Sept-Îles. The CAASI also promotes Indigenous culture and brings peoples together.

The native friendship centre in La Tuque is a service centre, a community, and a cultural anchor for Indigenous people. It uses innovative and proactive strategies to actively contribute to the social, community, economic, and cultural development of Indigenous communities. Over the years, it has become an incubator for major initiatives and numerous partnerships aimed at addressing the diverse needs of Indigenous people in the town.

The Centre d’amitié autochtone de Lanaudière (CAAL) works to improve Indigenous living conditions by offering many support services, guidance and information through programs catered to Indigenous families living in or passing through the Lanaudière region.

The mission of the Centre d'amitié autochtone de Québec is to maintain a meeting place in Quebec city to satisfy the cultural, material, and social needs of Indigenous people living urban areas. 

The Trois-Rivières Native Friendship Center aims to improve the quality of life of the Native people living in Trois-Rivières. The Center wants to promote native culture and values ​​in the community, while building and trying to improve the bond between natives and non-natives. Finally, the centre wants to be a living environment for natives.

The Wapan centre is a residential addiction rehabilitation centre that takes a continuum of care approach and provides French-language assessment, treatment, and counselling services to First Nations adults to help them achieve spiritual, cultural, mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

The CEL offers a generalist, anonymous, confidential and free telephone listening service to any person in difficulty or feeling the need to confide.

CEPS Beauce-Etchemins offers listening and support services that place emotional well-being and the promotion of life at the heart of its actions. It offers a 24/7 telephone listening service for people experiencing loneliness, stress or a difficult period, as well as individual or group support for the bereaved.