Here is a small list of crisis resources and organizations that are available to people in and outside of the Tio'tia:ke / Montreal area. If you are looking for our roster list of therapists and healers, click here. We intend to add resources to this list regularly. If you are involved with or know of resources / organizations that you feel should be on this page, please e-mail us at blackhealingfund@gmail.com.
CRISIS RESOURCES (IN AND OUTSIDE THE TIO'TIA:KE / MONTREAL AREA)
SUICIDE ACTION MONTREAL provides Services for people with suicidal ideation, services for people who are in any form of relationship with someone who is suicidal, services of resources for organizations on how to speak openly and in a safe(r) way about suicide.
WEST ISLAND CRISIS CENTRE is a crisis center in the West Island dealing with mental health, housing and many other resources. Services are online communication, short term housing, among others.
OPEN COUNSELING is a general website with many open crisis counselling online and on the phone across Canada. Services offered vary on a lot of different needs: Drug and Alcohol abuse, eating disorders amongst many others.
L’ASSOCIATION QUÉBÉCOISE DE PRÉVENTION DU SUICIDE (AQPS)is an association in Quebec that provides free 24/7 support calls for people dealing with suicidal ideation. Also connects you with a center for suicide prevention in your region (FRANCPHONE ONLY).
QUEER / TRANS / LGBTQ2SIA+ & ALLY CENTERED RESOURCES (TIO'TIA:KE / MONTREAL - BASED):
HEAD AND HANDS is an organization in Côtes-des-Neiges that puts forth youth empowerment and well being for marginalized youths and gives many different services to achieve a supportive environment for youth.
JEUNES QUEER YOUTH is a youth program and organization that centers queer and trans youth mental, sexual, social, emotional well being through activity workshops that are educational and interactive.
TAKING WHAT WE NEED is an informal group that provides low income trans women with discretionary funds. .
RÉZO is a non profit organization that offers services and programs for trans, cis queer men. Most of the resources given within the services and programs are around sexual well being and question around HIV transmission.
OTHER RESOURCES (IN AND OUTSIDE THE TIO'TIA:KE / MONTREAL AREA)
AMI QUÉBEC offers programs for caregivers around mental illness within families and how to address it, some programs are not just for caregivers and are mixed.
THE MONTREAL CENTER FOR ANXIETY & DEPRESSION mostly offers counselling around anxiety and depression as well as workshops in school on how to better discuss the importance of mental health. Services range from children, to couples, to family and adults.
THE DEPOT COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE is a non for profit organization that tackles food insecurity within marginalized and poor communities of NDG and offers food basket, pick ups, interventional support, programs, services to provide accessible, sustainable nutrition systems for families, communities, individuals, etc.
HEALING IN COLOUR: We offer a directory of BIPOC therapists who are committed to supporting BIPOC in all our intersections. By helping to connect our community in this way, we aim to revitalize a legacy of healing, liberation work and resiliency practices that have been lost/taken.
BLACK INDIGENOUS HARM REDUCTION ALLIANCE is a group of community workers of diverse experience who wish to draw attention to the need for access to self-determined and holistic health services within our communities. Our work seeks to develop harm reduction approaches that meet our communities where they are at, and to expand understandings of harm reduction to include environmental violence, and the criminalization of youth, sex workers, street-involved peoples, and 2SLGBTQ people.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
HOODRAT TO HEADWRAP: A Decolonized Podcast for lovers on the margins, join your resident sexuality educator Ericka Hart and Deep East Oakland's very own Ebony Donnley, as we game give, dismantle white supremacy and kiki in the cosmos somewhere between radical hood epistemological black queer love ethics, pop culture, house plants and a sea of books. Light an incense to this.
WOKE OR WHATEVA: Black women talking their sh*t. We read, analyze, deconstruct, concepts of race. We're what the kids call woke or whateva.