Worldwide • Age • Roles • Identity • Access
Crisis Support by Audience — Worldwide
Choose a pathway based on who needs support, who is helping, or what kind of audience-specific crisis guidance may fit best. You do not need to know the perfect category before asking for help.
Choose the Closest Starting Point
🚨 Immediate Danger
If you or someone else is in immediate danger, at serious risk of harm or unable to stay safe, use emergency or urgent crisis support first.
Open Emergency Numbers →💙 Gentle Note
You do not need to fit neatly into one audience. Choose whichever pathway feels closest and move between pages if another route fits better.
📘 Information Boundary
This page provides general information and navigation. It does not replace emergency, medical, safeguarding or professional crisis assessment.
🌿 Finding Support That Fits
You may belong to more than one group. Choose any pathway that helps, then use your location to find services available where you are. If a contact is unavailable, try a local emergency or crisis service.
Ways to Find the Right Audience Pathway
I Need Support for Myself
Start with age, identity, neurodivergence, disability, culture or the pathway that feels closest.
Who Is Looking for Assistance?
Find routes for parents, carers, family/whānau, friends, peers, teachers, support workers and professionals.
I Need Support by Age
Children, teens, adults and older adults may benefit from different support routes.
I Need Identity or Access Support
Explore neurodivergent, disability, communication, cultural, faith and LGBTQIA+ pathways.
Search & Filter
Search by age, role, identity, neurodivergence, disability, culture or support need.
Audience-Specific Crisis Support
Crisis support is not one-size-fits-all. Age, culture, identity, disability, communication needs, family roles and neurodivergence can all affect which support pathway feels safest and most accessible.
- Choose the pathway that feels closest to your situation.
- You can move between audience, location, topic and accessibility pathways.
- You do not need to fit neatly into one category to ask for help.
Support by Age
Age can affect what services are available, who may be involved in support and which pathways feel most appropriate.
Children & Younger People
Age-aware crisis pathways for children and younger people, including support where a parent, caregiver, school or other trusted adult may be involved.
Explore children & youth support →Teenagers & Young People
Support for teenagers and young people where age, school, family, identity, independence or youth-specific services may affect the best route.
Explore youth & teen support →Adults
Use the Main Crisis Finder to combine adult support with location, urgency, situation, culture, disability, access or communication preferences.
Use the Main Crisis Finder →Older Adults
Crisis pathways for older people where health, isolation, caring relationships, bereavement, accessibility or ageing may affect support needs.
Explore older-adult support →Carers, Family, Friends & Support Roles
The person searching for help may not be the person in crisis. These pathways support people helping a child, family member, friend, partner, student, client or community member.
Parents, Caregivers, Family & Whānau
Support for parents, carers and family members trying to help someone through distress, crisis or an unsafe situation.
Explore parents & carers support →Friends, Partners & Peers
Guidance for helping someone else while recognising your own limits, safety needs and when urgent professional help may be needed.
Explore how to help someone →Teachers, Support Workers & Professionals
Pathways for education staff, support workers, health and community professionals helping someone experiencing crisis.
Explore professional support →Educators & School Staff
For teachers and education workers helping a student, family or colleague. Choose a support pathway for education staff helping students, families or colleagues.
Explore this pathway →Healthcare & Mental Health Professionals
A starting point for health and mental health professionals supporting others or looking for support themselves.
Explore this pathway →Neurodivergence, Disability & Access
Crisis support may need to account for communication, sensory needs, disability, chronic illness, executive functioning, processing time or hidden barriers.
Neurodivergent Individuals
ND-aware pathways for autistic, ADHD and other neurodivergent people experiencing distress, overwhelm, shutdown, meltdown or burnout.
Explore neurodivergent support →ADHD Individuals
Support relating to emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, rejection sensitivity, overwhelm and crisis.
Explore ADHD support →Hidden Disabilities
Crisis support for invisible disabilities and needs that may affect communication, energy, processing or access.
Explore hidden-disability support →Chronic Illness
Support for people living with pain, fatigue, medical trauma or ongoing health-related distress.
Explore chronic-illness support →Text, Chat & Communication Support
Non-phone support pathways and lower-pressure ways of reaching help.
Explore communication support →Culture, Gender, Identity & Community Support
Some people feel safer with support that understands culture, identity, faith, gender, sexuality, language, community and family context.
Culture & Community Crisis Support
Culture, language, faith, family, community and migration context can shape which crisis pathways feel safe and usable.
Explore culture & community support →Women
Mental-health and help pathways for women experiencing distress, trauma, family stress or unsafe situations.
Explore women’s support →Men
Support for men experiencing distress, isolation, relationship stress, work pressure or other mental-health challenges.
Explore men’s support →LGBTQIA+ / Rainbow Communities
Identity-affirming crisis-support pathways for LGBTQIA+, Rainbow, queer, questioning and gender-diverse people.
Explore LGBTQIA+ support →Māori Support
Culturally responsive pathways for Māori individuals, whānau and communities.
Explore Māori support →Pasifika / Pacific Peoples
Support pathways for Pasifika people, families, communities and whānau.
Explore Pasifika support →Aboriginal Support
Culturally responsive pathways connected to Australian Aboriginal communities and crisis support.
Explore Aboriginal support →Faith-Based Support
Support connected with faith, spirituality, chaplaincy and religious-community pathways.
Explore faith support →Faith, Cultural & Identity Support
A broader pathway for culture, belonging, language, identity, faith and community connection.
Explore community support →Pacific Islands Mental Health Crisis Support
Explore Pacific Islands crisis support by country and community.
Explore this pathway →NZ Cultural & Community Mental Health Support
Explore existing New Zealand cultural and community mental-health support pathways.
Explore this pathway →Māori Kaupapa Māori Wellbeing
Culturally grounded mental health and wellbeing support, connected with specialist Māori crisis pathways.
Explore this pathway →Professionals, Educators & Community Helpers
Helping someone else, or finding support for yourself in a caring or professional role.
Doctors & General Practitioners
Find crisis navigation for clinical staff supporting patients or seeking help themselves.
Find relevant support →Nurses & Midwives
Find crisis pathways relevant to nursing, midwifery and healthcare roles.
Find relevant support →Psychologists & Psychiatrists
Reach the main finder for mental-health specialists and their own support needs.
Find relevant support →Counsellors, Therapists & Social Workers
Support for professionals guiding people through risk, distress and safeguarding concerns.
Find relevant support →Allied Health & Rehabilitation Staff
Navigation for occupational therapists, physiotherapists and allied-health teams.
Find relevant support →Disability & Community Support Workers
Support for frontline disability, peer and community workers assisting someone in crisis.
Find relevant support →School Leaders, Teaching Assistants & Educators
Explore crisis-support guidance for education staff and school communities.
Find relevant support →Emergency Responders & Essential Workers
Support pathways for people responding to emergencies or experiencing work-related distress.
Find relevant support →Faith, Spiritual Care & Community Leadership
Respectful routes for both people offering support and leaders who need support themselves.
Pastors, Ministers, Priests & Chaplains
Find help for pastoral and chaplaincy roles, including their own wellbeing and boundaries.
Find relevant support →Imams, Rabbis & Other Faith Leaders
Navigate faith-sensitive and community-sensitive crisis information.
Find relevant support →Churches, Mosques, Temples & Community Groups
Explore culturally respectful pathways for faith communities and organisations.
Find relevant support →Volunteers, Advocates & Peer Leaders
Find guidance when supporting other people without taking on clinical responsibilities.
Find relevant support →Additional Communities & Life Circumstances
Start with the pathway that fits your situation, then choose local support where available.
Migrants & Former Refugees
Explore identity, language and cultural support, with NZ-specific connections where appropriate.
Find relevant support →Pacific Islands & Pacific Diaspora
Explore crisis support pathways for Pacific communities and island countries.
Find relevant support →Rural, Remote & Isolated Communities
Find location-specific pathways and accessibility options for remote areas.
Find relevant support →People Experiencing Housing or Financial Insecurity
Start with the worldwide crisis finder and choose the relevant situation and location.
Find relevant support →People Affected by Disasters or Displacement
Find location-based urgent information; local emergency and disaster authorities take priority.
Find relevant support →Family Members of Older or Disabled People
Combine carer, ageing and disability-access pathways.
Find relevant support →Where to Go Next
Audience is only one way to find support. You can also narrow your search by situation, location, accessibility need, or use the wider global crisis finder.
Main Crisis Finder
Combine audience with location, urgency, situation, help type and accessibility or communication preferences.
Use the Main Crisis Finder →Crisis Support by Topic
Find support based on what is happening, including trauma, abuse, grief, addiction, panic and other crisis situations.
Open Crisis Support by Topic →Crisis Support by Location
Find country, regional and local crisis-support pathways.
Open Crisis Support by Location →Accessibility-Specific Crisis Support
Explore communication, sensory, disability, neurodivergent and alternative-access pathways.
Open Accessibility Crisis Support →Culture & Community Crisis Support
Find culturally responsive, faith-aware, identity-aware, language and community-specific pathways.
Open Culture & Community Support →Hidden Disabilities Crisis Support
For non-visible, fluctuating or partly visible disabilities, pain, fatigue, communication and access needs.
Open Hidden Disabilities Support →Global Crisis Directory
Browse the wider international crisis-service directory and global support pathways when you need another starting point.
Open Global Crisis Directory →💙 A Gentle Reminder
You do not need to choose the “perfect” page. Starting somewhere that feels close enough is enough. Support can become more specific as you go.