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If a page on this site asked whether you're safe, or asked you to reflect on a relationship in writing, this is where it was pointing. It also stands on its own. You don't need a reason to be here.

This list is partial, and partial in a particular direction. Most of it is directories and national networks rather than single organisations, because directories are maintained by people whose job it is and single groups are not, and directories are prioritised because they can update local contacts; verification dates remain visible. This edition lacks province-, territory-, and locality-specific coverage; everything below is national (Canada) or international in scope. If you are somewhere else, the international entries and the directories are the better starting point.

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Before anything else, if you're in danger right now

If immediate danger is present, choose the safest available option: a local emergency service, a trusted person, a crisis line, or a specialist violence service. Police or emergency response can increase danger for some people. What follows are the questions this site asks before its own tools, published here on their own, useful with or without the rest of this page, and easy to send to someone else.

Sit with these for a moment. There is no score and no answer to give anyone.

· When you disagree, what happens afterwards?
· Do you have your own access to money, documents, and a way to leave the house?
· Does the other person know where you are most of the time, and did you agree to that?
· Have you thought about leaving? If you have said so out loud, what was the response?
· Is there anyone who knows the whole of what is happening?

These prompts are not a validated screening instrument. Concern about coercive control is enough to seek specialist advice; no score or disclosure is required.

Read these in shorter sentences

· After a disagreement, what happens?
· Money. ID. A way out. Do you have your own?
· Does someone always know where you are? Did you agree to that?
· Have you said you might leave? What happened when you did?
· Does anyone else know everything that's happening?

If any of those were difficult to sit with, the "coercive control" section below is the most direct next step.

Choose what you need

Services, eligibility, languages, hours, and safety practices can change after the verification date.

3 entries · Canada, national

Immediate safety and crisis lines

9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline · 988.ca

For anyone thinking about suicide, or worried about someone who might be. A safe space to talk, any time.

call or text 988 · free · 24/7 · verified 2026-08-07

Hope for Wellness Helpline · hopeforwellness.ca

Crisis intervention and counselling for Indigenous people across Canada, in English, French, Cree, Ojibway, and Inuktitut. Operated by an Indigenous organisation, funded by Indigenous Services Canada.

1-855-242-3310 or online chat · free · 24/7 · verified 2026-08-07

Kids Help Phone · kidshelpphone.ca

Canada's national e-mental-health service for young people, in over 100 languages with interpretation.

1-800-668-6868, text, or chat · free · 24/7 phone · verified 2026-08-07

1 entry · Canada, national directory

Intimate partner violence and coercive control

ShelterSafe · sheltersafe.ca

An interactive map to the nearest shelter, run by Women's Shelters Canada, a network of 16 provincial and territorial shelter associations representing over 600 shelters. Each listing carries its own 24-hour emergency number.

web directory, listings are 24h by phone · free · verified 2026-08-07

Coercive control often arrives in ordinary-sounding language: concern, growth, a boundary, a diagnosis. Relational Sovereignty's own Learn page keeps a field guide to how that vocabulary gets used as a weapon, off this site's crisis-response content and on its reading pages instead.

1 entry · Canada: thin coverage, stated honestly

Legal aid and family law

211 Canada · 211.ca

Canada's largest directory of community, social, and government services, including referral to legal aid and family law clinics in your area. Not legal advice: a starting point for finding who can give it.

phone 211 or web, 150+ languages · free · verified 2026-08-07

Legal aid in Canada is administered separately by each province and territory, and no single national directory links out to all thirteen plans cleanly enough to publish here without guessing. This is a known gap, not a finished category. See the fault list on the colophon.

1 entry · Canada, national network

Immigration and refugee support

Canadian Council for Refugees · ccrweb.ca

A national coalition of refugee- and immigrant-serving organisations. The CCR itself does not provide direct legal help. It coordinates and advocates for the member organisations that do. Use its site to find a member organisation near you.

web, points to member organisations · verified 2026-08-07

1 entry · Canada, national

Housing, tenant organising, and emergency shelter

ACORN Canada · acorncanada.org

A national, member-led union of low- and moderate-income tenants and community members, with chapters across several provinces. Organises collectively on housing conditions, rent, and eviction.

web, chapter-based · membership is free · verified 2026-08-07

For emergency shelter specifically, see ShelterSafe above. Its listings are not limited to intimate-partner violence.

1 entry · Canada, national directory

Income, benefits, and food security

211 Canada · 211.ca

The same directory listed under legal aid above also covers benefits navigation, income support, and food security services by region. Call 211 or search by postal code.

phone 211 or web, 150+ languages · free · verified 2026-08-07

1 entry · Canada, national

Disability advocacy and independent living

Council of Canadians with Disabilities · ccdonline.ca

A national, cross-disability human-rights organisation working for an inclusive and accessible Canada. A starting point for advocacy and for finding disability-led organising in your region.

web · verified 2026-08-07

1 entry · Canada, national

2SLGBTQ+ and trans-specific services

Egale Canada · egale.ca

Canada's national 2SLGBTQI organisation. Runs Egale Youth OUTReach, offering counselling and homelessness/suicide-crisis support for 2SLGBTQI youth, alongside its broader advocacy and resources.

web, see site for youth-service contact details · verified 2026-08-07

2 entries · Canada, national

Indigenous-specific and Indigenous-led services

Native Women's Association of Canada · nwac.ca

A national Indigenous organisation representing Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse people, with a long-standing focus on violence prevention alongside its broader advocacy.

1-800-461-4043 · web · verified 2026-08-07

Hope for Wellness Helpline · hopeforwellness.ca

Listed above under crisis lines, included here again because it is Indigenous-specific and Indigenous-delivered, not only a crisis service.

1-855-242-3310 or online chat · free · 24/7 · verified 2026-08-07

Not yet built

Mutual aid networks

This category is genuinely empty, not thin. Mutual aid groups form and dissolve faster than one unpaid maintainer can verify, and a dead contact given to someone in crisis is worse than an honest absence. It stays on the fault list until there's a stable, paid-staff directory to point to instead of individual groups.

2 entries · International

If you are somewhere other than Canada

Find A Helpline · findahelpline.com

A vetted directory of crisis lines in 130+ countries, covering suicide, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and gender and sexual identity, by phone, text, or web chat. Built by ThroughLine with the International Association for Suicide Prevention.

web, search by country · verified 2026-08-07

Befrienders Worldwide · befrienders.org

A global network of emotional-support centres for loneliness, despair, and suicidal distress: 349 centres in 32 countries. Grew out of the Samaritans; independent since 2012.

web, phone/email/chat varies by centre · verified 2026-08-07

Nothing here is endorsed

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