Provides online information, tools, and strategies to help young people and families find the mental health and substance use support they need. Offers apps, wellness tips, workbooks and self-check, web links, strategies for supporting others, and connections to services online and in the community.

Topic areas include anxiety, body image and eating, drugs and other substances, alcohol, low mood and depression, questioning reality, and stress.

Foundry Virtual BC offers free mental health and wellness services for youth aged 12 to 24 and their caregivers. Services include:

• Counselling
• Peer Support
• Groups & Workshops
• Physical & Sexual healthcare
• Employment & Education Services
• Indigenous Wellness Services

Download the Foundry BC app and register for an account to access services.

Provides Indigenous people in BC access to specialists in addictions medicine and psychiatry through video conferencing or in a health centre or client's home.

Clients work with their care providers to choose a location for the appointments. Referral providers are encouraged to attend appointments to provide local knowledge for care planning and continued client support.

Offers group sessions where parents and caregivers of young people with a lot of mental health concerns or troubling behaviour, can meet together in small groups to learn new skills. The group sessions focus on areas such as recognizing and managing feelings or reactions, setting limits, communication, and strengthening relationships with their teen.

Provides an online tool kit to promote positive mental health perspectives and practices in the school environment. The kit serves to strengthen student engagement and academic functioning, while addressing key relationship concerns such as the prevention of bullying and oppositional behaviours and attitudes.

Topic areas include: components of positive mental health, social and physical environments, stages of change, teaching and learning, steps in implementation, and healthy school policy.

Provides BC-wide information and resources to make sure people have the information they need to access gender affirming health care and supports.

Support areas and information includes accessing care, social transitioning, peer and community support, advocacy, mental health wellness, child and youth resources, how to get surgery, and family support.

Offers a residential treatment program for women and transgendered women with substance dependence, mental health concerns, and primary health-care needs. Treatment may include counselling, skill development, wellness, nutrition groups, chronic pain management, and group programs to address trauma, substance dependency, mental and physical health issues.

Offers online mental health tools and resources for youth, families, teachers and health care providers.

Resources include web links designed specifically for youth who have questions or concerns about their mental wellbeing, as well as a collection of websites containing resources and information to support friends, family and caregivers of youth who may be experiencing a mental health problem.

Provides an online listing of BC health resource and services available in French, as well as information about the BC health system explained in French.

Provides an online search listing of private practice professionals for families to find services for their child. Listed professionals must meet education, training and experience requirements which demonstrate that they are qualified to provide effective treatment programs for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Families receiving funding through the Autism Funding Under Age 6 Program must select professionals from this registry.