Mental Wellness
Building Mental Resilience in Youths
Our mental well-being plays an important role in managing stress and responding to challenges in our lives. If you need a safe space or someone to talk to, these helplines are here to help you.
Hotlines
Care Corner serves children with learning needs or from disadvantaged backgrounds, youth-at-risk, troubled families, vulnerable seniors and individual with counselling and mental health needs through their 43 service points across Singapore.
They provide Mandarin counselling support via their hotline.
Hotline number: 1800-3535-800
Available on: Monday to Sunday (except Public Holidays), 10am to 10pm
Website: https://www.carecorner.org.sg/services/toll-free-counselling-hotline/
Hear4U is a confidential WhatsApp helpline that gives users a safe space to seek advice and express their concerns on emotional and mental issues.
Hotline number: 6978-2728
Available on: Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm
Website: https://care.sg/hear4u/
Youths, parents, educators and schools can reach the counsellors from TOUCH Youth Intervention via their hotline to find out more about cyber wellness, their relevant programmes, or to get help with cyber wellness issues.
Hotline number: 1800-6123-123
Available on: Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm
Website: https://www.help123.sg/hotline/
The Mobile Crisis Service is a service by the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) to provide immediate assistance and advice to callers or caregivers facing a mental health crisis.
Hotline number: 6389-2222
Available on: Monday to Sunday, 24 hours
SOS is dedicated to providing confidential emotional support to individuals facing a crisis, thinking about suicide or affected by suicide. hotline provide round the clock emotional support for those in distress.
Hotline number: 1767
Available on: Monday to Sunday, 24 hours
Website: https://www.sos.org.sg/
SAMH provides counselling, creative services, outreach activities, rehabilitation, and workplace skills training across 10 centres.
Hotline number: 1800-283-7019
Available on: Monday to Friday, (except Public Holidays), 9am to 6pm
Website: https://www.samhealth.org.sg/our-services/outreach/samh-insight-centre/#insight-services
Tinkle Friend hotline provides support, advice and information to lonely and distressed primary-school-aged children 7 to 12 years old, especially in situations when their parents or main caregivers are unavailable.
Hotline number: 1800-2744-788
Available on: Monday to Friday (except Public Holidays), 2.30pm to 5pm
Website: https://www.tinklefriend.sg/
TOUCH Community Services provide counselling for children, youth, adults, couples and families on various issues including cyber wellness, excessive device use, addiction, delinquency marital, parenting, emotional and interpersonal issues.
Hotline number: 1800-377-2252
Available on: Monday to Friday, (except eve of Public Holidays and Public Holidays), 9am to 6pm
Website: https://www.touch.org.sg/about-touch/our-services/counselling-services
Youthline provides a listening ear and free counselling for anyone up to 35 years old. Youthline is a safe space that is confidential and welcomes everyone.
Hotline number: 6436-6612
Available on: Monday to Sunday, 9am to 12am
Website: https://youthline.sg/
Mental Health Assessments
CHAT provides personalized and confidential mental health checks by mental health professionals for young persons between 16 and 30 who are currently living in Singapore.
Website: https://www.imh.com.sg/CHAT/Get-Help/Pages/Mental-Health-Check.aspx
Youth mindline is a variant of mindline.sg designed to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people in Singapore. This anonymous platform caters to individuals in their teens and twenties who are curious about mental health related topics, facing anxieties or high levels of stress in school or due to transitions in life, or are trying to make sense of who they are and their life choices.
Website: https://mindline.sg/youth/assessment
MindSG is a one-stop online portal for national mental health and well-being resources, to provide Singaporeans with information on mental health and well-being. Mind SG provides mental well-being self-assessment tool for aged 18 and above to assess their state of mental well-being.
Website: https://www.healthhub.sg/programmes/mindsg/about-mental-well-being#self-assessment-home
Mindside is a care model that provides accessible mental healthcare within the community, for the community. They match individuals at risk of developing anxiety and/or depressive disorders with resources and mental healthcare practitioners in the community.
Website: https://mindside.sg/Online-Screening
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Community Engagement and Outreach
Gateway Arts works closely with partners like TOUCH Mental Wellness to curate post-show materials that delves deeper into the topics explored within each individual productions. These materials provide better insights, and allow audiences to know that they are not alone in this journey. Click the productions below to find out more!
