Between midnight and 6am, the world feels different. That’s when isolation hits hardest, when pain feels most unbearable, when people feel most alone. These are also the hours when crisis lines receive their highest-risk calls. But many services shut down overnight, leaving people with nowhere to turn.
Not the Crisis Centre. Our phones ring at 3am, and someone answers. Trained. Ready. Present.
Every overnight responder who stays awake so others can sleep safely represents a commitment: no one should face their darkest hour alone. These shifts prevent deaths, reduce emergency room visits, and provide hope when hope feels impossible.
Keeping our lines staffed overnight requires resources, training, and unwavering commitment. Your bold support ensures that whenever crisis strikes: 2am, 4am, dawn: we answer.
Will you help us continue this critical work?
The Crisis Centre is here to help – whatever a crisis looks like for you. Read more about what we do:
What Is a Crisis? Defining How a Crisis Happens and How Crisis Lines Help. – Sometimes, just one phone call with a responder from one of the BC crisis lines can turn things around for someone in crisis.
When an “F” feels like the end of the world – Read how a responder helped our caller, Maya, through her first bad grade.
“I still don’t like it, but I’m no longer actively pushing it away like in the beginning.” – Read how our support group helped Mary find connection and support after her husband’s death by suicide.
