Mental Health Resource List
Resources for Black Families
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If your safety is at risk, call 911 immediately.
If you are thinking about suicide or are worried about someone else, call or text 988 for support at any time.
You can also contact Kids Help Phone by calling 1-800-668-6868 or texting CONNECT to 686868.
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Across Boundaries
Provides a dynamic range of mental health support and services and works within Anti-Racism/Anti-Black racism and Anti-Oppression frameworks. These frameworks address the negative impact of racism and discrimination on mental health and well-being.
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Black Youth Helpline
Black Youth Helpline serves all youth and specifically responds to the need for a Black youth specific service, positioned and resourced to promote access to professional, culturally appropriate support for youth, families and schools.
Black Health Alliance
Community-led registered charity working to improve the health and well-being of Black communities in Canada.
Caribbean African Canadian Social Services
Provides services during regular business hours:
M 鈥� F: 9:00 a.m. 鈥� 4:30 p.m.
To find a Black therapist:
CAMH
Provides support to youth with substance use and mental health struggles.
☎️ 416-535-8501, press 33922
📠 Fax: 416-979-4996
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NACCA
Offers a Mental Health program that will provide weekly culturally relevant support group sessions, ongoing subsidized individual counselling and monthly workshops for youth, parents and caregivers in York Region鈥檚 Black communities.
Parents of Black Children
The Parents of Black Children Mental Health Fund partners with mental health clinicians to make sure that families can get the support they need.
TAIBU Community Health Centre
Provides comprehensive primary health care and also offers counselling services and mental health workshops. See website for monthly calendars of events.
Tropicana Community Services
Provides individual and family counselling as well as life skills programs.
York Region Alliance of African Canadian Communities
The York Region Alliance of African Canadian Communities (YRAACC) Sankofa Programs offers an Africentric curriculum that is focused on activities that provide workshop sessions for Black Students to enhance their racial and cultural identity, self-esteem, critical thinking, self-reflection, teamwork, and community engagements.