MindShift CBT App
Provides a free phone app that helps youth and young adults cope with anxiety, develop more helpful ways of thinking, and identify active steps to help take charge of anxiety.
Features include personal journal, individual assessment tools, and web-based resources designed to improve mental wellness and tackle anxiety related concerns.
Online Peer Support Chats
Provides a safe, confidential space for individuals who are affected by an eating disorder or disordered eating, to chat online about their experiences and benefit from the empathy and understanding of their peers while avoiding sensitive subjects such as weight, dieting and specific eating disorder behaviours. There are 10 live chats per week and participants can join as many as they like.
Looking Glass Residence
Provides residential treatment in a home-like setting for young men and women with anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating, and other eating disorders. Care and support is provided by a multi-disciplinary team of medical and mental health professionals.
Support includes individual, group and family therapy, meal support and nutrition, and medical and psychiatric treatment. Operates in partnership with the government of BC.
200-2006 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC
Hand in Hand Peer Support
Offers a peer support program that matches adults and older youth with a trained volunteer who provides compassionate, judgment-free support and listening during eating disorder recovery. Support is provided in-person or over video call.
The program supports individuals wherever they are in their unique recovery journey and, through the consistent and personalized support of a mentor, helps them to discover what they can achieve, as they are ready.
Patient Services
Provides access to pediatric care for children in BC and the Yukon requiring medical attention for orthopedic and other pediatric specialities. Transportation, accommodation, and all associated medical treatment including follow-up, are provided at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Portland, Spokane and Montreal.
Indigenous Family Treatment Program
Offers a six-week residential program to help couples and families develop healthy relationships as they continue on their healing journey from addiction. Each client family lives in their own unit during their stay.
The program includes group counselling, traditional teachings and ceremonies, family play-time, child and youth counselling, and help with resolving trauma, parenting skills, anger management, communication skills, and relapse prevention. A student learning centre and daycare is available.
7830 Beaver Creek Road, Port Alberni, BC
Bereaved Parent Support Group
Provides an online listing of support groups available throughout BC for families who have experienced the death of a child at any age, from any cause. Parents and their surviving children are supported through friendship, understanding, and grief education.
Rainbows Child Support Groups
Provides online information about support groups available in the community for children who have experienced a significant loss in their lives, either by death, separation, divorce, or any other painful transition.
Children have the opportunity to meet new friends who have shared similar experiences, learn to sort through and understand their grief, and come to a healthy acceptance of what has happened to their family.
Kaleidoscope
Provides information on group support programs available in the community for adults who have experienced recent or childhood loss in their lives either by death, divorce or any other painful transition.
Raising Resilient Kids Parenting Program
Offers a group-based program to help parents and caregivers to develop mindful parenting skills and strengthen caregiver-child relationships during early childhood. Topics include child development, mindfulness, attachment, and reflective parenting. The group is facilitated by trained physicians.