Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program (Island Health)
Provides individual and family consultation and psychiatric evaluation and treatment for youth up to18 years old (referral-based).
Parents Like Us
A guidebook for families supporting a young person with substance use disorder.
Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre
Get connected to a medical interpreter or a mental health provider with the same cultural background.
School-Based Mental Health Outreach Program
Provides counselling programs for students and families experiencing stress at home, such as addictions, grief, mental health, stress, and anxiety, which affect the student's ability to manage at school. Families are referred by the school and services are offered in the school and or family home.
Outreach Support Worker
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.
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.
Community Programs
Provides community-based education, health and cultural programs for Aboriginal families living in the Northern Vancouver Island area. Programs include social services, children and family programming, and services that offer cultural awareness, education and support.
Community Information and Volunteer Centre
Provides community information about organizations, government programs, health services through an area-wide online database of community resources, by email, phone, or walk-in inquiry, in addition to information on volunteering in the Central Okanagan.
Publications include: Directory of Community Services; Children and Youth Special Needs Resource Guide; Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health & Substance Use Resource Guide for Professionals and Service Providers; Mental Health Resources for Children and Youth; Healthy Aging Seniors Resource and Support Guide; and Suicide Prevention Handbook.
Homicide Grief Support Groups
Offers group support in a safe, non-judgmental environment to families and friends of individuals who have survived the loss of a loved one by homicide. Groups meet once a week for eight weeks.
Participants come together to support each other, listen to others who have experienced a similar loss, and as well learn grief and mourning tools to help in their daily lives.
Family Caregivers of British Columbia Supports
Support for people caring for a family member or friend.