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SAVE ME Steps – Responding to an Overdose

Learn the steps to respond to an overdose, you could save someone's life.

Urgent and Primary Care Centres

Urgent and Primary Care Centres (UPCCs) provide access to same-day, urgent, non-emergency health care.

Available B.C. wide

Indigenous Youth Wellness

Provincial Health Services Authority

Provides Indigenous youth wellness promotion and suicide prevention through online activities and training and in community based youth groups.

The Cuystwi program offers online wellness quests with themes on identity, culture, understanding colonization, tools to deal with racism, healthy relationships, and sexual health.

Also offers Ask Auntie - a girl-specific program with themes on identity, culture and connection, relationships and safety, wellness, body knowledge and body transitions, and healing.

Available B.C. wide

Erase

Ministry of Education and Child Care

Provides students, families, and educators with information and resources on online safety, bullying, sexual orientation and gender identify (SOGI), gender-based violence, mental health and well-being, substance use, school safety, and racism.

Its focus is about building safe and caring school communities. This includes empowering students, families, educators and the community partners who support them to get help with challenges, report concerns to schools, and learn about complex issues facing students.

Available B.C. wide

Survivors of Incest Support Groups

Survivors of Incest Anonymous

Provides an online listing of support groups available in BC for men and women in need of support with recovery from childhood sexual abuse. Meetings are available online and in-person.

Available B.C. wide

Provincial Substance Use Treatment Program

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Provides specialized addiction treatment in a supported home-like setting for adults in BC who need help with severe substance use. The program is approximately three months long and includes after-care support for up to a year following treatment.

The program includes assessment and stabilization, counselling, supportive treatment, medication therapy, peer support, life skills development, family programs, and education about mental illness and substance use.

1795 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC

Available B.C. wide

Autism Assessment

BC Children's Hospital

Provides diagnostic assessment for children and youth who may have autism spectrum disorder. The assessment includes a detailed parent interview and interactive observation session that uses toys and games appropriate to the child's age or level of development.

The program at Sunny Hill Health Centre also receives complex, tertiary level referrals through regional service teams throughout the province.

4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC

Available B.C. wide

Healthy Children

Island Health

Offers online information and resources for every stage of children's health. Topics include pregnancy, caring for baby, breastfeeding, parenting, immunization, nutrition, child safety, school-aged health, caring for teenagers, child abuse and neglect.

Available B.C. wide

Caring for Kids

Canadian Paediatric Society

Provides information for parents with resources on child and youth health.

Available B.C. wide

Foundry Virtual BC

Foundry

Foundry Virtual BC offers free mental health and wellness services for youth aged 12 to 24 and their caregivers. Services include:

  • Counselling
  • Peer Support
  • Groups & Workshops
  • Physical & Sexual healthcare
  • Employment & Education Services
  • Indigenous Wellness Services

Download the Foundry BC app and register for an account to access services.

Showing 11 - 20 of 164 Resources

SAVE ME Steps – Responding to an Overdose

Learn the steps to respond to an overdose, you could save someone's life.

Urgent and Primary Care Centres

Urgent and Primary Care Centres (UPCCs) provide access to same-day, urgent, non-emergency health care.

Available B.C. wide

Indigenous Youth Wellness

Provincial Health Services Authority

Provides Indigenous youth wellness promotion and suicide prevention through online activities and training and in community based youth groups.

The Cuystwi program offers online wellness quests with themes on identity, culture, understanding colonization, tools to deal with racism, healthy relationships, and sexual health.

Also offers Ask Auntie - a girl-specific program with themes on identity, culture and connection, relationships and safety, wellness, body knowledge and body transitions, and healing.

Available B.C. wide

Erase

Ministry of Education and Child Care

Provides students, families, and educators with information and resources on online safety, bullying, sexual orientation and gender identify (SOGI), gender-based violence, mental health and well-being, substance use, school safety, and racism.

Its focus is about building safe and caring school communities. This includes empowering students, families, educators and the community partners who support them to get help with challenges, report concerns to schools, and learn about complex issues facing students.

Available B.C. wide

Survivors of Incest Support Groups

Survivors of Incest Anonymous

Provides an online listing of support groups available in BC for men and women in need of support with recovery from childhood sexual abuse. Meetings are available online and in-person.

Available B.C. wide

Provincial Substance Use Treatment Program

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Provides specialized addiction treatment in a supported home-like setting for adults in BC who need help with severe substance use. The program is approximately three months long and includes after-care support for up to a year following treatment.

The program includes assessment and stabilization, counselling, supportive treatment, medication therapy, peer support, life skills development, family programs, and education about mental illness and substance use.

1795 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC

Available B.C. wide

Autism Assessment

BC Children's Hospital

Provides diagnostic assessment for children and youth who may have autism spectrum disorder. The assessment includes a detailed parent interview and interactive observation session that uses toys and games appropriate to the child's age or level of development.

The program at Sunny Hill Health Centre also receives complex, tertiary level referrals through regional service teams throughout the province.

4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC

Available B.C. wide

Healthy Children

Island Health

Offers online information and resources for every stage of children's health. Topics include pregnancy, caring for baby, breastfeeding, parenting, immunization, nutrition, child safety, school-aged health, caring for teenagers, child abuse and neglect.

Available B.C. wide

Caring for Kids

Canadian Paediatric Society

Provides information for parents with resources on child and youth health.

Available B.C. wide

Foundry Virtual BC

Foundry

Foundry Virtual BC offers free mental health and wellness services for youth aged 12 to 24 and their caregivers. Services include:

  • Counselling
  • Peer Support
  • Groups & Workshops
  • Physical & Sexual healthcare
  • Employment & Education Services
  • Indigenous Wellness Services

Download the Foundry BC app and register for an account to access services.

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