World Suicide Prevention Day 2017 is calling on the community to “take a minute” to check in on someone in need

September 10, 2017 - More than 800,000 people a year die by suicide. Up to 25 times as many have made a suicide attempt. Each individual has their own story a...

The Vancouver Island Crisis Society is pleased to present once again the ASIST workshop on June 22 and 23, 2017, in Nanaimo

Winner of the 2009 Culture of Peace Award, as part of the United Nations’ Decade of a Culture of Peace initiative, the popular ASIST (Applied Suic...

NANAIMO — The Vancouver Island Crisis Line is more popular than ever.

Heather Owen, promotions and community relations coordinator with the line, attributed their rising use to increased awareness campaigns. The provincial initiative Crisis Line Awareness Week ran from...

For more than a decade crisis centres in BC have marked “Crisis Line Awareness Week”. Held in the last week of March, the initiative was created to raise awareness about the work that crisis lines do in communities across the Province.

Crisis Lines provide thousands of...

Partnership between the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Distress Line Network, and Rogers Communications to link crisis lines across Canada

November 24, 2016 - Ottawa, ON - Public Health Agency of Canada

Suicide affects people of all ages and backgrounds, an...

Connect. Communicate. Care - BC Crisis Lines are taking this message to the community as they support World Suicide Prevention Day events being held across BC on September 10th.

Every 40 seconds someone in the World dies by suicide, according to the World Health Organiz...