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Safety planning

Prepare a plan for the hardest moments.

A safety plan is a written set of steps to keep yourself — or someone you care about — safer during a mental health crisis. These tools can help you or a loved one build one.

Beaches Mental Health is not a crisis service. If you are feeling unsafe or in danger, call 9-1-1, go to your nearest emergency department, or call/text 9-8-8 (Suicide Crisis Helpline, Canada) for 24/7 bilingual, trauma-informed support.

  • Guide to Safety Planning

    The Suicide Prevention Resource Center's Safety Planning Guide — an overview of the steps involved in responding to high-risk situations where someone is at risk of harm to themselves or others.

    Open the guide

  • Safety Plan Template

    The Distress Centre (Calgary) Safety Plan template — a printable framework covering warning signs, internal coping strategies, social coping, support people, professional supports, and environmental risk reduction.

    Open the template

  • Hope by CAMH — Safety Planning App

    A safety-planning app from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Available on iOS and Android to build, save, and share a personal safety plan.

    Learn about Hope by CAMH

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