Lifeline Aotearoa

Lifeline Aotearoa has been helping New Zealanders in distress and crisis for 60 years. Our mission is to reduce distress and save lives by providing safe, accessible, effective, professional and innovative services. We work specifically to increase awareness and understanding of suicide prevention in New Zealand, reduce the associated stigma, and work with others to contribute positively to the health and social sector. Our free community helplines, 0800 LIFELINE and Suicide Crisis Helpline 0508 TAUTOKO, and our text support service HELP (4357) are answered by our highly trained team from centres in Auckland and Christchurch. We also provide mental health and wellbeing training for businesses through our Lifeline Connect service. We receive between 7,000 and 8,000 calls per month and 20,000 texts from people of all ages and ethnicities who are struggling with a wide range of issues including relationship and work problems, mental health, grief, abuse, bullying and loneliness. We ...