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There are numerous off campus physical health and mental health resources for UTM students. Read more below!

Off Campus Resources

There are numerous ways to find a community family doctor in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

Finding a Family Doctor

Urgent help and care can be accessed in emergency rooms of our local hospitals.

Mental health resources from the Greater Toronto Area. Resources are listed in alphabetical order.

  • Credit Valley Hospital - Crisis Intervention Team
    905-813-2200 
    (2200 Eglinton Avenue West, Mississauga, ON, L5M 2N1)
    The Crisis Intervention Team consists of a skilled social worker or a nurse specializing in crisis intervention who works closely with the Emergency Department and the Mental Health Program. Telephone crisis coverage includes consultation and community resource information to family physicians and crisis counselling to persons and/or family members who may call the hospital in crisis. Part of the Trillium Health Partners.
     
  • Crisis Support Peel Dufferin
    905-278-9036
    This service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
     
  • Distress Centres of Toronto
    416-408-4357
    Confidential support and referrals provided by volunteers 24 hours a day. Interpreters for callers in crisis are available in 151 languages. TTY service available for the hearing impaired.
     
  • Embrave.ca (formerly Interim Place)
    905-403-0864; 1-855-676-8515
    Offers 24-hour crisis line, online chat, and in-person counselling and support, referrals, information about sexual abuse and assault.
     
  • Gerstein Centre 
    416-929-5200
    Provides crisis intervention to adults living in the City of Toronto who experience mental health problems.
     
  • Good2Talk - Ontario's Post-Secondary Student Helpline
    1-866-925-5454
    A free, completely confidential and anonymous service that offers students professional counselling, mental health information and connections to local resources. The service is available 24/7 365 days per year in both English and French.
     
  • Kid’s Help Phone
    1-800-668-6868
    Offers, anonymous and confidential professional counselling, referrals and information through technologically-based communications media to youth under the age of 20.
     
  • Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Youth Line
    416-962-9688
    Offers a toll-free Ontario-wide peer-support phone line (and TTY) for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, 2-spirited, queer and questioning young people. Sunday - Friday (4:00pm - 9:30pm).
     
  • Revive
    905-792-0821
    info@revivepeel.com
    Offers 24-hour crisis line, online chat, and in-person counselling and support, referrals, information about sexual abuse and assault.
     
  • Suicide Crisis Helpline
    Call or Text 9-8-8 
    A safe space to talk, 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
     
  • Telus Health Student Support
    1-844-451-9700
    Telus Health Student Support (THSS) provides University of Toronto students with immediate and/or ongoing confidential, 24-hour support for any school, health, or general life concern at no cost to students. You can call or chat with a counsellor directly from your phone whenever, wherever you are for a range of concerns.
     
  • Trillium Hospital – Mississauga Crisis Team
    905-848-7100
    (100 Queensway West, Mississauga, ON​, L5B 1B8)
    Offers assessments and counselling to adults who are experiencing a mental health crisis. This can include people suffering from depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, stress, and family crisis as well as those who are suicidal, or who are family members of trauma victims. Part of the Trillium Health Partners.
     
  • Victim Services of Peel
    905-568-1068
    Offers 24-hour immediate crisis intervention to persons victimized by crime or tragic circumstances in the Peel community.

If you are in danger, call 9-1-1.

  • Assaulted Women’s Helpline
    416-863-0511;  TTY - 1-866-863-7868  
    #SAFE (#7233) on your mobile phone (Bell, Rogers, Telus and Fido)
    Offers 24-hour telephone and TTY (teletypewriter) crisis line to all women who have experienced abuse. Counselling, emotional support, information and referrals to are provided to women who have experienced abuse as well as their friends and family members.
     
  • Sexual Violence Prevention & Support Centre (SVPSC) | Tri-campus
    416-978-2266
    Have you experienced sexual violence or sexual assault?
    SVPSC can help with next steps, medical treatment, support, and the option to have a Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit exam.
     
  • Trillium Health Centre – Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Services
    905-848-7493
    If you have been sexually assaulted within the last 168 hours (7 days), please go to Trillium Health Partners Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Services, accessed through the Mississauga Hospital Emergency Department, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.