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Student Wellness and Mental Health Resources

For a list of available provincial and territorial COVID-19 mental health resources, click here.
Student Affairs: Contact Information
Private practice therapists and psychologists can be recommended by Student Affairs and covered at least in part from your Dalhousie student insurance. They can address relationship, stress and grief issues. Many are working well remotely during the pandemic.
Dalhousie Student Health & Wellness Centre
Dalhousie Health Services, including the same day counselling, ongoing therapy intake and regular counselling are still open. They are triaging for severity of symptoms and need. Best to call them at (902) 494-2171, explain you are a Dalhousie Medical Student and ask to speak with the nurse. Specifically ask for mental health support if that is your main reason to call.
Mental Health Crisis Line

Crisis Text Line

CHIMO crisis line

The Provincial Mental Health Crisis Line is available for you or someone you are concerned about 24/7 anywhere in the province, for adults and youth. Staffed by trained mental health staff affiliated with mental health inpatient and outpatient service to help assess, support and navigate needs for care. You will need to leave a message. They will call you back. If wait is too long, call again. This can be a resource for family and friends. Put it in your phone contacts.

Nova Scotia:
  • 24/7 Coverage
  • Call 1-888-429-8167
  • Text NSSTRONG to 741741
  • For frontline workers: text FRONTLINE to 741741

New Brunswick:
  • 24/7 Coverage
  • Call 1-800-667-5005 or (506) 450-HELP (4357)
Good2Talk
Good2Talk is a free, confidential helpline for post-secondary students across Canada. By calling or texting Good2Talk, students can receive information and referrals about services and supports for mental health, addictions and well-being on and off campus or speak anonymously with a professional counsellor.

Good2Talk can support students through a wide range of issues that may be impacting their mental health and well-being, including:
  • depression
  • anxiety
  • substance abuse
  • academic stress
  • personal or family relationships
  • loneliness
  • financial concerns
  • other challenges facing students in post-secondary

Availability: All post-secondary students
  • 24/7 Coverage
  • Call 1-833-292-3698
  • Text GOOD2TALKNS to 686868
Community Mental Health and Addictions
If you would like to self-refer to our Community Mental Health and Addictions clinics, Withdrawal Management Services, or Opioid Replacement and Treatment Program, call (toll-free) 1-855-922-1122, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

This line has voicemail only evenings, weekends, and statutory holidays.

Availability: Nova Scotia
  • M-F 8:30 am-4:30 pm
  • Call 1-855-922-1122
TAO Self‑Help
TAO Self-Help is an online mental health library with interactive modules to help you understand and manage how you feel, think and act. You choose the modules you believe will help you feel well and live the life you choose. Materials in TAO Self-Help can help with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, anger management, problem solving, communications and evaluating your alcohol and drug use.

Students are able to create a personalized account for TAO using their student email address.

Availability: All Dal Students
Q-Life Resilience Project
labResilience is defined as being resourceful, flexible, emotionally agile, and having problem-solving abilities. While some resiliency comes naturally, it can also be learned.
 
This resilience program (Q-Life) is intended to address feelings of being overwhelmed, anxiety, and perceived stress through proven skill development like mindfulness, nutrition, cognitive hygiene and problem solving, to name a few. 

We invite students to participate in the Q-Life program to help you be better prepared for dealing with everyday challenges and stress.

Availability: All Dal Students

ICAN (Conquer Anxiety and Nervousness) – Anxiety Program (18 plus years of age)
People looking for help for anxiety and depression can benefit from doing this program. In this program, you will learn and understand anxiety. You will also learn valuable life-skills that have been proven to overcome anxiety.  This program provides adults with a manual or access to a secure website, skill demonstration videos, and, most important, weekly telephone support from a coach. This service is private and confidential and offered through the Strongest Families Institute.   

Strongest Families Institute  is a charity that provides proven services to adults and families seeking help for mental health and other issues impacting health and well-being. We provide timely care by teaching skills through our unique distance coaching approach – supporting clients over the phone and Internet in the comfort and privacy of their own home. Strongest Families provides client-centered care that is customized to their needs.

Available to residents of Newfoundland and Labrador, PEI, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia
MindWell-U

Nova Scotia

New Brunswick
Mindwell-U is a free online challenge that takes just five minutes a day, and can be accessed anywhere and on any device.

The program challenges you to take five minutes out of your day to learn the basics in mindfulness, a practice that allows a person to focus their attention and be fully present in a moment.

This practice lowers stress and increases resilience. The Challenge also teaches ‘mindfulness-in-action’ so people don’t need to stop what they are doing to become calmer, present and more focused.
Wellness Together Canada: Mental Health and Substance Use Support
We recognize the significant strain that COVID-19 has placed on individuals and families across the country. Many people are concerned about their physical and mental well being. Canadians are being challenged in a number of ways because of isolation, financial and employment uncertainty and disruptions to daily life. Wellness Together Canada provides tools and resources to help get Canadians back on track. These include modules for addressing low mood, worry, substance use, social isolation and relationship issues.

Availability: Canada-wide
2SLGBTQIA+ COVID-19 Resource Guide
PrideHealth and other organizations that support the queer community decided to put together this online resource kit to provide people with the most relevant and up to date information about programs and services during the COVID-19 pandemic in this time of anxiety. Included is information on how organizations are offering services during the pandemic and other important information and resources to support your mental, physical and emotional health during this challenging time.

Nova Scotia-specific

Kids Help Phone
Available to young Canadians between 5 to 29 years old who are seeking 24-hour confidential and anonymous care with professional counsellors.
  • Canada-wide
  • Call 1-800-668-6868
  • Text CONNECT to 686868
Hope for Wellness Help Line
Available to all Indigenous peoples across Canada who are seeking immediate crisis intervention.
  • All Indigenous peoples across Canada
  • Call 1-855-242-3310
  • Online chat available

Experienced and culturally competent Help Line counsellors can help if you want to talk or are distressed.

Telephone and online counselling are available in English and French. On request, telephone counselling is also available in Cree, Ojibway and Inuktitut.

CFMS COVID-19 Wellness Resource Directory

Page Last updated: 23APR2020

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