Adolescent Health and Medicine
Provides assessment, clinical services, education and training to youth with complex health issues that are affecting their relationship with peers, school and or family life. Youth are helped to move towards a healthy adulthood through setting goals, finding resources, and better health and wellbeing.
Topic areas include friendships, sexuality, home life, drugs, mood and worries, sleep, eating, health conditions, school, and social challenges.
4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC
Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre - Dala Program
Provides residential treatment, assessment and intervention for fragile youth with symptoms like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia or other thought disorders. The program helps teens with improving their mental health, developing social and family support networks, and with learning life skills necessary to enhance their quality of life.
2721 Lougheed Highway, Coquitlam, BC
Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre - Bifrost Program
Provides home-based, intensive intervention for youth and their family to help them explore different ways of relating to one another and increasing their problem-solving skills. The program is offered to families and caregivers on week days for about three months.
2721 Lougheed Highway, Coquitlam, BC
Youth Mental Health Information and Resources
Provides an online listing of mental health resources for youth in grades seven to twelve. Information, support, tips and techniques can be found on many BC websites, and free mental health and relaxation apps can also be downloaded for phones and mobile devices.
Kelty Eating Disorder Resources
Provides resources and peer support to people of all ages with eating disorders or disordered eating concerns in BC. Support is available by phone, email or in person at the centre.
Online information is also available and includes topics such as treatment options, types of disorders, group support, recovery and relapse prevention, nutritional counselling, and where to find help.
4555 Heather Street, Vancouver, BC
Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre
Provides mental health and substance use information, resources and help with navigating the mental health system for families throughout BC and the Yukon.
Parent peer support workers are also available to support parents and caregivers by phone, virtual meeting, e-mail or in-person. See website for online resources, educational events and webinars.
4555 Heather Street, Vancouver, BC
Child Protection Services
Provides child protection services for children and youth in BC. Social workers investigate reports of child abuse or neglect, provide or arrange support services for families, supervise a child's care in the home, and protect children through removal from the family and placement with relatives, a foster family or specialized residential resources.
To report a concern about a child being abused or neglected, call the toll free number or Helpline for Children, both available 24-hour, 7 days a week.
Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre - Connect Parent Group
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.
2721 Lougheed Highway, Coquitlam, BC
Child and Youth Mental Health Clinics
Free mental health clinics for children and youth in locations across B.C.
Young Bears Lodge
Provides a 16 week, live-in, culturally-based empowerment program with an alcohol and drug recovery focus. Co-ed services for Aboriginal youth who voluntarily seek assistance to overcome substance abuse and/or misuse is available. The work is founded on the belief that culture is therapy and youth are the experts in their own lives. Services are designed to help focus on the changes individual wants to make and to support them through the process of making those changes. To that end, the Lodge will provide the client with a safe and respectful environment with supportive staff who will provide with all of the encouragement and resources needed to help make the changes that are important. The Lodge is a 5-bed facility located in a large house within a residential community in South Vancouver.