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24-Hour Crisis Line - Indigenous

Indian Residential School Survivors Society

Offers residential school survivors, students and intergenerational survivors, their family members, and the community at large a 24-hour crisis line for immediate emotional support, information, and referrals. Referrals include access to crisis counselling, elder support, cultural workshop, grief and loss support, and help with filing missing persons reports.

Available B.C. wide

Parent Peer Support

FamilySmart

Provides emotional support, information, resources and help in navigating services for parents and caregivers of a child, youth or young adult with a mental health and or substance use challenge. Peer support is provided by parents of children with mental health and or substance use challenges. They share their experiences, ways to cope and provide parents with the supports they need.

Available B.C. wide

Interior Region Family Navigator

Canadian Mental Health Association - Kelowna Branch

Provides a toll-free phone line for parents and caregivers of children, youth, or dependent adults living in the interior of BC, who are unsure how to find mental health services, or information about mental health and substance use issues.

Navigators listen to concerns, find out what supports are needed, and then assist the caller in finding relevant, local community resources.

Available B.C. wide

Youth Residential Treatment Program

Pacific Youth and Family Services Society

Offers a residential treatment program to help youth recover from substance use, including drug and alcohol addiction. Peak House is located in Vancouver and open to all youth in BC who need a more intensive level of service than can be provided in their home community.

The program includes individual and group counselling, life-skills training, fitness and social activities, assessment, relapse prevention, and aftercare planning. Elder visits for Indigenous connections are also available.

220-825 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC

Available B.C. wide

Autism Service Dogs

British Columbia Guide Dog Services

Provides professionally trained dogs to children with autism and their families, at no cost to the family. Having an autism support dog can increase the safety and security of a child with moderate to profound autism. The program includes client in-home training.

7061 Ladner Trunk Road, Delta, BC

Available B.C. wide

Confident Parents: Thriving Kids Anxiety Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Provides a family-focused coaching service for parents of children with mild to moderate anxiety. The program helps parents build skills and strategies that strengthen their role as a parent and help with managing their child's anxiety symptoms.

The program includes short educational online videos supported by weekly telephone coaching sessions delivered at flexible times over 8 - 10 weeks to parents and caregivers across BC.

Available B.C. wide

Confident Parents: Thriving Kids Behaviour Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Provides a family-focused coaching service for parents of children with mild to moderate behavioural problems. Program sessions are held via telephone and parents are also provided with an accompanying manual which they work through with their coach.

Program focus includes: encouragement of positive behaviour; consequences for negative behaviour; monitoring of children's activities; problem solving; and positive involvement in children's interests, activities, and social development.

Available B.C. wide

Healthy Minds, Healthy Campuses

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Offers an interactive website to promote campus mental health and reduce risky substance use. The website is designed to engage students, campus professionals, faculty, administrators and community partners.

Web features include learning events, web links, and online resources such as tools and videos, interactive reports, and naloxone information.

Available B.C. wide

We Are Indigenous: Big Worries/Fears, Parent & Caregiver Support Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Offers a free, virtual parent and caregiver coaching program to support First Nations, Métis and Inuit families across BC, whose children are struggling with the experience of big worries and fears, or what the Western worldview calls anxiety.

The program is guided by traditional knowledge from Indigenous communities and includes short online videos and scheduled telephone coaching sessions to provide families with tools to discuss what they are already doing, and to learn new practices and how to use these practices with their children.

Available B.C. wide

YouthInBC - Chat Line

Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia

Provides a web-based hotline for BC youth in distress. The service is provided through a live chat function and email. The website also provides resources and information on youth mental health issues, as well as links to the crisis intervention telephone line.

Showing 131 - 140 of 196 Resources
Available B.C. wide

24-Hour Crisis Line - Indigenous

Indian Residential School Survivors Society

Offers residential school survivors, students and intergenerational survivors, their family members, and the community at large a 24-hour crisis line for immediate emotional support, information, and referrals. Referrals include access to crisis counselling, elder support, cultural workshop, grief and loss support, and help with filing missing persons reports.

Available B.C. wide

Parent Peer Support

FamilySmart

Provides emotional support, information, resources and help in navigating services for parents and caregivers of a child, youth or young adult with a mental health and or substance use challenge. Peer support is provided by parents of children with mental health and or substance use challenges. They share their experiences, ways to cope and provide parents with the supports they need.

Available B.C. wide

Interior Region Family Navigator

Canadian Mental Health Association - Kelowna Branch

Provides a toll-free phone line for parents and caregivers of children, youth, or dependent adults living in the interior of BC, who are unsure how to find mental health services, or information about mental health and substance use issues.

Navigators listen to concerns, find out what supports are needed, and then assist the caller in finding relevant, local community resources.

Available B.C. wide

Youth Residential Treatment Program

Pacific Youth and Family Services Society

Offers a residential treatment program to help youth recover from substance use, including drug and alcohol addiction. Peak House is located in Vancouver and open to all youth in BC who need a more intensive level of service than can be provided in their home community.

The program includes individual and group counselling, life-skills training, fitness and social activities, assessment, relapse prevention, and aftercare planning. Elder visits for Indigenous connections are also available.

220-825 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC

Available B.C. wide

Autism Service Dogs

British Columbia Guide Dog Services

Provides professionally trained dogs to children with autism and their families, at no cost to the family. Having an autism support dog can increase the safety and security of a child with moderate to profound autism. The program includes client in-home training.

7061 Ladner Trunk Road, Delta, BC

Available B.C. wide

Confident Parents: Thriving Kids Anxiety Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Provides a family-focused coaching service for parents of children with mild to moderate anxiety. The program helps parents build skills and strategies that strengthen their role as a parent and help with managing their child's anxiety symptoms.

The program includes short educational online videos supported by weekly telephone coaching sessions delivered at flexible times over 8 - 10 weeks to parents and caregivers across BC.

Available B.C. wide

Confident Parents: Thriving Kids Behaviour Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Provides a family-focused coaching service for parents of children with mild to moderate behavioural problems. Program sessions are held via telephone and parents are also provided with an accompanying manual which they work through with their coach.

Program focus includes: encouragement of positive behaviour; consequences for negative behaviour; monitoring of children's activities; problem solving; and positive involvement in children's interests, activities, and social development.

Available B.C. wide

Healthy Minds, Healthy Campuses

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Offers an interactive website to promote campus mental health and reduce risky substance use. The website is designed to engage students, campus professionals, faculty, administrators and community partners.

Web features include learning events, web links, and online resources such as tools and videos, interactive reports, and naloxone information.

Available B.C. wide

We Are Indigenous: Big Worries/Fears, Parent & Caregiver Support Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Offers a free, virtual parent and caregiver coaching program to support First Nations, Métis and Inuit families across BC, whose children are struggling with the experience of big worries and fears, or what the Western worldview calls anxiety.

The program is guided by traditional knowledge from Indigenous communities and includes short online videos and scheduled telephone coaching sessions to provide families with tools to discuss what they are already doing, and to learn new practices and how to use these practices with their children.

Available B.C. wide

YouthInBC - Chat Line

Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia

Provides a web-based hotline for BC youth in distress. The service is provided through a live chat function and email. The website also provides resources and information on youth mental health issues, as well as links to the crisis intervention telephone line.

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