Therapeutic Counselling
Offers therapeutic counselling and life-skills support services to youth who are experiencing anxiety, depression, and substance use issues resulting from childhood trauma and abuse. Family counselling is also available.
Young Carers Program
Provides support and education to young caregivers who providing significant care to a family member. The need for care may include supporting a family member with physical or mental illness, disability, addiction or other difficulties such as financial issues or divorce.
Services include individual support and counselling, workshops, family counselling, First Nations family support, advocacy, and referrals to other service providers.
Alzheimer Resource Centre - West Kootenay
Provides information, education and support for individuals with Alzheimer's disease or another dementia. Also offers support to caregivers, families, and health professionals who help those concerned with or facing dementia, build the knowledge, skills and confidence to maintain quality of life.
Services include individual support, community referrals, and a resource library including books, videos, brochures and information sheets.
Mobile Outreach Program
Provides outreach primary care health services to individuals in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The mobile van offers a combination of targeted outreach for individual members, cultural wellness outreach services, and scheduled drop-in clinics.
Services include harm reduction and emergency supplies, one-on-one support, and cultural care and medicine such as smudging, cedar brushing and ceremonial song. Provided in partnership with TELUS Health.
Balancing Our Minds Inspiring Action Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to be a sustainable and accessible resource for youth to draw inspiration about how to improve student and school community mental health and well-being.
Y Mind Youth
Offers a free support group for young adults who experience anxiety. Participants learn healthy coping skills, connect with other young people in the community, and get support all in a safe and friendly environment. Programming is supervised by trained mental health professionals.
The program includes take-home resources to help manage anxiety in between weekly meetings, and a 14 week YMCA gym membership to encourage youth to manage their anxiety through physical activity.
Homicide Grief Support Groups
Offers group support in a safe, non-judgmental environment to families and friends of individuals who have survived the loss of a loved one by homicide. Groups meet once a week for eight weeks.
Participants come together to support each other, listen to others who have experienced a similar loss, and as well learn grief and mourning tools to help in their daily lives.
Outreach
Offers parents with limited or no support, the knowledge, skills, and support necessary to build enduring and healthy relationships with their children.
Services include in-home one-to-one support and training, referrals to community resources, and support to families with children reintegrating back into the home.
Substance Use Information and Referral
Provides resources for youth, adults, and caregivers dealing with difficulties from their own or someone else's substance use. Resources include substance use information, an online video library, web links, and self-assessments.
Also provides referral information on approved residential treatment and detox facilities, school based educational programs, community education, outreach, and harm reduction programs.
Peer Support Program
Offers peer-to-peer support to adults recovering from an on-going mental illness and in the initial stages of recovery. Services are provided in the community and at Richmond General Hospital.
Peer support workers have personal experience with mental illness and are able to offer support and encouragement, and help with reaching personal goals, more independence and confidence.