Who actually supports whistleblowers, and who provides psychosocial care?

Every Organization is Labeled in Three Ways: What it is. A support service is somewhere you can go and get something: advice, money, legal help, therapy. A reporting channel takes your disclosure and investigates the wrongdoing — it will not support you personally. Information or training means publications, research and directories rather than services.

What psychosocial support it offers. Provides directly: its own counsellors or peer groups. Funds it: pays for therapy elsewhere. Refers out: points you to providers. None documented: its website says nothing about mental health support — that may only mean unpublished, so it is worth asking.

Who can use it. Most services are open to anyone. An amber tag means access is restricted — to a profession, to members, to a specific cohort, or through an employer. Check it before reaching out.

If you are in crisis, or supporting someone who is, start with an entry carrying the red Crisis line badge: free, immediate, anonymous emotional support with no eligibility requirements.

The crisis tier covers 73 countries with a verified national line; in nine countries — Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Turkey, Bahrain, Morocco, Tunisia, Cameroon — no national crisis line could be found at all, and in several others the only lines are for women, children or violence survivors. In those countries the global directories (Find A Helpline, Befrienders Worldwide) are the fallback.

Details change. Confirm anything important on the organization’s own site before acting on it.