Nightline France: listening, supporting, and raising awareness in favor of young people and students’ mental health
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Our mission and key values
Nightline’s key dates

2016 - Nightline Paris is born
Patrick Skehan, an Irish exchange student in France, was struck by the lack of structures dedicated to student mental health and decided to import the Anglo-Saxon concept of Nightline listening services dating back to the 70s to France.

2017 - Training our first volunteers
With the help of PSL University's call for student initiatives, the association trains its first volunteers and opens its French Nightline in November 2017.

2018 - Launch of the English Parisian line
English-speaking volunteers are recruited in order to offer a listening service dedicated to foreign students living in Paris.

2019 - Nightline Paris receives more than 1,500 calls
As the months go by, partnerships are set up with more establishments and institutions, allowing Nightline Paris to gain popularity.

2020-2021 - New listening services are created throughout France
The association becomes Nightline France and, with that, deploys the concept of student listening services in many other cities and regions: Plateau de Saclay, Lille, Lyon, Toulouse and Pays de la Loire.

2022 - A new lead
Nathalie Roudaut succeeds Patrick Skehan as Chief Delegate and Erkan Narmanli succeeds Florian Tirana as President to accompany the expansion and consolidation of the association.

2023 - The association welcomes a scientific council
Nightline's Board of Directors decides to set up a team of experts to form a Scientific Advisory Board responsible for discussing, evaluating and making recommendations on issues relating to the hotline, research projects and impact analysis, and prevention and mental health promotion initiatives

2023 - Birth of the Mental Health Mural®.
After a preliminary study in the first half of 2023, the association develops the Mental Health Mural®, thanks to the support of the Sisley d'Ornano foundation and with the contribution of Psycom for the conception.

2025 - European advocacy report released
Nightline and the Nightline Europe network - over 30 Nightlines together - publishes a ground-breaking advocacy report calling for greater attention to student mental health on a continental scale.
Our expertise
They support us
Today, the organization is supported at the national level by the Ministry of Higher Education, the Ministry of Health, the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM), and the National Center for University Services (CNOUS). Nightline France is also a laureate of La France s’engage.
The association holds seats on the boards of the National Union for Suicide Prevention (UNPS) and Animafac.
Nightline also collaborates with numerous partners from the academic, non-profit, and mental health sectors — including 3114, Psycom, Dites Je Suis Là, Cop’1, RESES, and AFEV (among others).