Early Psychosis Intervention
Learn about psychosis and the available supports in a community near you.
Looking Glass Eating Disorder Services
The Looking Glass Foundation provides programs and resources to individuals experiencing eating disorders and disordered eating.
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.
Counselling and Support Groups
Provides individual and group counselling to women, trans, non-binary, two-spirit, and gender diverse people who have experienced sexualized violence. Counsellors help support survivors to cope with the impacts of violence ranging from anger and grief to issues including sexuality, intimacy and trust.
Counselling may include safety planning, support circles, sexual assault counselling, art therapy, inclusion support, and counselling for Indigenous survivors rooted in Indigenous healing practices and traditions.
Victim Services
Provides justice-related information and advocacy, post-assault health care support, and practical assistance to victims or witness of crime, trauma and or physical or sexual assault. Services include crisis counselling, referrals to community services, safety planning, and accompaniment to police and court appearances.
S.T.A.R. Program for Kids
Provides education and information around choices, drugs and responsibility to elementary-aged school children in Vancouver. Youth are active participants in the sessions with the curriculum delivered through fun and engaging activities. Topics include alcohol and drug basics, healthier choices, myth busting, conflict and tricky situations, values, and creating options.
Transition House
Provides emergency shelter for women and children in crisis from abusive situations. The transition house is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A child and youth support worker is also available. Offers crisis support, women's and children's counselling, family support, community outreach, advocacy, and transportation for women and their children residing at the transition house. Toll free number operates as crisis line and intake point for transition home.
Surrey Street Youth Services
Provides a telephone referral service for youth who are without a safe place to go and at considerable risk on the streets. Youth-specific information and referrals include counselling, health and education options, youth shelters, mental health and substance use services, and income assistance programs.
Intensive Case Management Team
Offers a variety of client-centered services to individuals who are at risk due to substance misuse, with or without mental health issues, with a focus on the homeless or those at risk of becoming homeless. The team works with clients where they are at physically - on the street, in shelters, or in their homes.
Services include housing support, substance use counselling and access to treatment, rent supplements, medical care assessment, life skills support and skill building, medication management, and referrals to community resources and income services.
Women's Safety and Outreach Program
Provides mobile crisis support to girl and women survivors of assault and or sexual abuse in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside. Support includes crisis intervention, counselling, safety planning, information and referrals, hospital accompaniments, assistance with shelter and housing, harm reduction supplies, and advocacy.