Get help in Canada

Kids Help Phone

Call 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868

Support for young people in Canada from professional counsellors by phone and volunteer crisis responders by text, about any issue, big or small.

• Run by Kids Help Phone
• When Phone 24/7
• Languages Phone support in multiple languages

Cybertip.ca

Report online

Canada’s national tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children, including child sexual abuse material, shared intimate images and online luring.

• Run by Canadian Centre for Child Protection

NeedHelpNow.ca

Practical help for young people when a sexual picture or video of them has been shared, or someone is threatening to share it: how to get it removed from major platforms, and where to get support.

• Run by Canadian Centre for Child Protection

9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline

Call or text 9-8-8

A safe space to talk for anyone thinking about suicide or worried about someone else.

• Run by 9-8-8
• When 24/7, every day of the year
• Languages English, French

Find a child helpline in your country

A directory of child helplines around the world, listed by country with their contact details. Child helplines are run by organisations in each country to listen to and support children and young people.

• Run by Child Helpline International

Report child sexual abuse material to your national hotline

Explains how to report sexual images or videos of children found online, and links to the hotline for your country. You report the web address, not the files, and you do not need to give your name. INHOPE’s secretariat is not itself a hotline and cannot receive reports.

• Run by INHOPE

Take It Down

A free service that helps remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude or sexually explicit images or videos taken of you before you were 18. It creates a digital fingerprint of the image on your own device, so you do not send the image to anyone, and you can stay anonymous. It works on public or unencrypted platforms that have agreed to take part.

• Run by National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)

Find A Helpline

A directory of free, confidential helplines and crisis lines in many countries, searchable by country and by topic, for emotional support and crisis situations including thoughts of suicide.

• Run by ThroughLine