DCGT Holiday Auction in support of United Way

This years Distress Centres of Greater Toronto auction will be raising money to support United Way.

Since 1967, Distress Centres has provided 24-hour support, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to individuals in our community at risk and their most vulnerable. We are Canada’s oldest volunteer delivered crisis, emotional support and suicide prevention + intervention + postvention service agency.

Our crisis and emotional distress services are available via hotline, online chat, and text. Our multi-lingual lines offers services in 7 languages. We also offer face-to-face individual as well as group support and counselling to those who have lost a loved one to suicide or homicide and are navigating the aftermath. Distress Centres of Greater Toronto continues to expand, and our program participants & call volume increases each year.

Distress Centres now answers more than 110,500+ calls annually and places over 86,500 check in calls to vulnerable seniors and others in the community.