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Sexual Assault Response Team

Boundary Women's Coalition

Provides immediate emotional support and information to individuals who have been sexually assaulted within the past 7 days. The team provides accompaniment to the hospital, safety planning, and coordinates police involvement as requested by the survivor.

Stopping the Violence Counselling

Boundary Women's Coalition

Provides individual and group counselling to women who have experienced current or past relationship abuse, sexual assault, or physical, emotional or sexual abuse at any age.

Substance Use Information and Referral

East Kootenay Addiction Services Society

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.

Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment

Elkford Women's Task Force Society

Provides free, confidential counselling for children and youth who have witnessed and or experienced abuse, threats, violence in the home, or other relationship violence.

The program provides group and individual counselling for children, youth and caregivers, as well as community presentations designed to prevent violence.

Outreach Support Worker

Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society

Provides in-home support and counselling for families and their children to enhance parenting and behaviour management skills, increase healthy births, and support child development.

Y Mind Teen

YMCA BC

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.

Y Mind Youth

YMCA BC

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.

Aboriginal Youth Safehouse

Urban Native Youth Association

Provides short-term emergency shelter for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal youth without a place to sleep. Offers resources to help young people make positive changes in their lives including one to one support, information and referral, advocacy, as well as access to a computer, telephone, bus tickets, clothes, and support from other UNYA programs. Funded by the Ministry of Children and Family Development.

Young Bears Lodge

Urban Native Youth Association

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.

Counselling and Support Groups

Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre Society

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.

Showing 81 - 90 of 196 Resources

Sexual Assault Response Team

Boundary Women's Coalition

Provides immediate emotional support and information to individuals who have been sexually assaulted within the past 7 days. The team provides accompaniment to the hospital, safety planning, and coordinates police involvement as requested by the survivor.

Stopping the Violence Counselling

Boundary Women's Coalition

Provides individual and group counselling to women who have experienced current or past relationship abuse, sexual assault, or physical, emotional or sexual abuse at any age.

Substance Use Information and Referral

East Kootenay Addiction Services Society

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.

Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment

Elkford Women's Task Force Society

Provides free, confidential counselling for children and youth who have witnessed and or experienced abuse, threats, violence in the home, or other relationship violence.

The program provides group and individual counselling for children, youth and caregivers, as well as community presentations designed to prevent violence.

Outreach Support Worker

Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society

Provides in-home support and counselling for families and their children to enhance parenting and behaviour management skills, increase healthy births, and support child development.

Y Mind Teen

YMCA BC

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.

Y Mind Youth

YMCA BC

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.

Aboriginal Youth Safehouse

Urban Native Youth Association

Provides short-term emergency shelter for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal youth without a place to sleep. Offers resources to help young people make positive changes in their lives including one to one support, information and referral, advocacy, as well as access to a computer, telephone, bus tickets, clothes, and support from other UNYA programs. Funded by the Ministry of Children and Family Development.

Young Bears Lodge

Urban Native Youth Association

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.

Counselling and Support Groups

Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre Society

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.

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