Our Mission

Distress Centres of Toronto's 600 volunteers respond to more than 100,000 calls annually from grief stricken, lonely, depressed or suicidal callers in the Greater Toronto Area, keeping the crisis telephone lines open 24 hours a day, seven days a week at three locations: Distress Centre Central, Distress Centre North and Distress Centre Scarborough. The Survivor Support and the Homicide Bereavement Programmes provide grief counselling and suicide prevention to individuals who have lost someone through a tragic or violent death.