The Warm Door
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A Warm Door room

Coffee, not a coffin.

A coffee and five minutes. That's the door.

Fighters learn to push through pain on their own. This room is about the other kind of tough: saying "I'm not okay", and being the mate who asks.

Awareness · not collecting money yet

No app needed

Four steps anyone can take today.

You don't need training to be the person who notices. You just need to ask, and mean it.

  1. Notice

    Someone's gone quiet, stopped turning up, or isn't themselves. Trust that feeling.

  2. Ask

    "How are you really going?" Then wait for the real answer.

  3. Listen

    Don't fix it and don't judge it. Let them talk.

  4. Connect

    Help them call a line below, or sit with them while they do. If they're in danger, call 000.

The conversation over a coffee beats the one at a funeral.
Why this room exists
Where it's going

Skip one coffee. Fund a check-in for someone with nobody.

That's the plan: a coffee bought for someone who has no one to have it with, at a café that keeps a warm door open. It isn't running yet. When it starts, this page will show where every dollar goes.

Real today

  • The four steps and the help lines on this page.
  • The Coffee room in the DFC app.
  • Safety checks in DFC's AI assistant that show these help lines when a conversation turns heavy.

Not yet

  • A café. None has signed up.
  • A coffee fund. It is switched off. No money is being collected.
  • Someone on call. Nobody watches this room. The lines below answer, any hour.
The idea, on screen

Five minutes, one table.

AI-generated video, made to show the idea. The people in it are not real.

Run a café?

Be the first warm door in your street.

We're looking for the first café. Tell us about yours.