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Greetings and welcome back to The Ontario Association of Distress Centres’ (operating as Distress and Crisis Ontario) blog! As mentioned in our first post last month, our blog will feature timely topics relevant to current events and/or monthly themes, articles…

February 2024Every February, people across Canada participate in Black History Month events and festivities that honour the legacy of Black people in Canada and their communities.The 2024 theme for Black History Month is: “Black Excellence: A Heritage to Celebrate; a…

Greetings and welcome to the blog of The Ontario Association of Distress Centre, operating as Distress and Crisis Ontario! We're thrilled to introduce this new platform for connecting with our community and sharing valuable information each month. Our blog will…

Winter Conference 2023 - Dr. Rick Csiernik on Hallucinogens and Microdosing Distress and Crisis Ontario invites you to join us virtually for our Winter Conference 2023 on Thursday March 9th, 2023, for a morning of training with Dr. Rick Csiernik.…

Allied with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples of Canada, we seek to support their efforts for Truth and Reconciliation in Social Justice initiatives. If you are unsure of where to start in learning more, we have recently shared four…

September 30th is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Allied with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples of Canada we seek to support their efforts for Truth and Reconciliation in Social Justice initiatives. If you are unsure of where to…

On Saturday September 10th, 2022, we hosted a livestream on Facebook to honour World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) 2022. WSPD, observed each year on September 10th, provides the opportunity for people across the globe to raise awareness of suicide and…

UPDATE: As the Clyde Mental Health and Addictions Awareness Project has grown, so have our efforts to spread awareness and hope around suicide prevention, postvention, and intervention. We now have five different iterations of our suicide prevention toolkit to share.…

As we continue learning how to be better allies for Truth and Reconciliation, we thought it vital to share the official Calls to Action compiled by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on our site. It is important that…

We are looking for volunteers to sit on our Board of Directors and Board Member applications are now open. Previous Board experience is appreciated but not required, and applicants do not need to have distress or crisis line experience. A…