Emergency Resources
If you or a loved one need immediate help, the following resources are available to you.
ab.211.ca
Suicide Prevention Line (serves central and Souther Alberta) 1.800.784.2433
Calgary Distress Centre 403.266.4357
Edmonton Distress Line 1.780.4357
Rural Distress Line 1.800.232.7288
The Recovery House
Your Path & Resource Guide to Recovery
Best Resources during Stages (click your option)
1. Early Symptoms
a. Healthy Minds/Healthy Children website
b. Hull – Bridging the Gap
c. CMHA
d. Access Mental Health
e. Primary Care Networks and Family Physicians
f. Financial Support CD
2. Major Crisis, First Hospitalization
a. Mobile Response Team (Through DC)
b. Psych Emergency at FMC, PLC, RGH,
ACH, South Health Campus
c. CMHA - Suicide Services 297-1704
d. Distress Centre
e. Distress Centre Teen Line
f. Community Resource Team
g. Alpha House
h. DOAP
i. HOPE Team (Housing Outreach
Prevention and Engagement)
j. SORCe
k. Sheriff King Home (Shelter)
l. Community Crisis Society
(Wheatland Shelter)
m. Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter
n. Exit Youth Shelter
o. Avenue 15
p. Children’s Cottage
q. Urgent Care: Sheldon M. Chumir,
South Calgary Health Centre
3. Individual Problems
4. Interventions
a. Access Mental Health
b. Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse
c. OBAD – Peer Support
d. Clinics in Airdrie, Banff, Chestermere, Claresholm,
Cochrane, Didsbury, Strathmore, Vulcan, and Okotokes
e. Schizophrenia Society – Peer Support
f. CUPS Shared Care Mental Health Program
g. Calgary Fetal Alcohol Network
h. Child Development Centre
i. YWCA Sheriff King Home – Paths of Change
j. Smart Recovery
5. Family Problems
6. Interventions
a. Cool Family Solutions
b. CMHA – Family Peer Support
c. CMHA Capable Carers
d. Schizophrenia Society – Family Support
e. Eastside Family Centre
f. Calgary Counselling
g. Southern Alberta Family and Community Resource Centre
h. Calgary and Area Child and Family Services Authority
i. Calgary Family Services
j. Calgary Family Therapy
k. Children’s Link Society
l. Families Matter
m. Jewish Family Services
n. Southern Alberta Brain Injury Society
o. Parent Support Association
p. YWCA Sheriff King Home – Paths of Change
7. Unify Team. Individual's family develops a plan.
8. Follow-up of Family & Individual
9. Family & Individual as independent from health system as possible
