Support for specific groups

An audience tag means a service was built for these people and its staff are trained for it — not that anyone else is turned away. Everything below has at least one checked contact or a guide written for those readers behind it.

• Young people

  Under-25 services, including lines staffed by people trained to talk to teenagers.

• Students

  University and college support, including out-of-hours cover when campus services are closed.

• Men

  Services designed around how men most often ask for help, which is frequently not by phone.

• Older adults

  Support for people over 65, including services that will call you back regularly.

• LGBTQ+ people

  Lines staffed by LGBTQ+ people, where you don't have to explain yourself first.

• Trans and non-binary people

  Peer support run by trans people, and services with an explicit affirming policy.

• Veterans

  Support from people who have served, and services that understand service life.

• Serving military

  Confidential support that sits outside the chain of command.

• Emergency services

  Police, fire, ambulance and control-room staff — including services that understand shift patterns.

• Healthcare workers

  Confidential support for clinical staff, including help that won't reach your regulator.

• Bereaved by suicide

  Support specifically for suicide loss, from people who have been through it.

• New and expectant parents

  Perinatal mental health support, including for partners and after baby loss.

• Farmers and rural communities

  Support that understands isolation, weather, debt and animals you can't leave.

• Construction workers

  Site-based support in an industry with one of the highest suicide rates anywhere.

• Vets and veterinary staff

  Confidential support for a profession with markedly elevated risk.

• Autistic people

  Services that accept text contact, allow long pauses, and don't require eye contact or small talk.

• Deaf and hard of hearing people

  BSL, ASL, text relay and textphone routes into crisis support.

• Blind and partially sighted people

  Voice-first routes and services with accessible written material.

• People in recovery

  Dual support for addiction recovery and suicidal thoughts, which very often arrive together.

• Carers

  Support for the person doing the caring, which is almost always the last thing arranged.

• Disabled people

  Accessible services, and support that understands the barriers rather than adding to them.

• People with chronic pain

  Support for the exhaustion of pain that has no end date.

• People in or leaving prison

  In-custody listener schemes and through-the-gate support at the point of highest risk.

• People experiencing domestic abuse

  Confidential support, including routes that are safe to use on a monitored device.

Looking for something more specific? Filter every service by country, age and what is going on, or go straight to crisis lines for your country.