Dawson Counselling Service for Students
Message for Faculty who need to refer students for Personal Counselling:
All applications for distance counselling, as well as any student centered mental health related inquiries, can be sent to Dawson Personal Counselling:
DawsonPersonalCounselling@dawsoncollege.qc.ca.
The email is monitored from 9:00-5:00 Mon-Friday and will be responded to within 24 hours of reception during the workweek.
If you receive communications outside these operating hours, and you believe a student to be in danger, please refer them to one of these crisis lines:
- Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868 for texting service (24hr counselling and listening helpline/texting service)
- Tele-Aide: 514-935-1101 (24hr listening service)
- Suicide Action Montreal (SAM): 514-723-4000 (24hr listening service)
- Tracom Crisis Intervention Centre: 514-483- 3033 (24hr telephone support)
- West Island Crisis Centre: 514-684-6160 (24hr crisis intervention line; for those in need of crisis intervention, or for people supporting others in crisis)
- Douglas Institute Emergency care: 514-761-6131, ext. 2221 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week for urgent care)
- Jewish General Hospital, Teenage Health Unit: 514-340-8242 (Monday to Friday: 8:30am–4:30pm)
- Info-Santé /Info-Social 811 promptly puts you in contact with a nurse or psychosocial intervention worker in the event of a health concern or psychosocial problem
