Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment
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 offers safety skills and strategies, and supports children to understand they are not at fault for abusive action of others.
Family Support Program
Provides in-home family support services and counselling to high need, high-risk families whose children may be at risk of being placed in the care of the Ministry of Children and Families Development.
Victim Services
Provides justice-related information and referrals, emotional support and practical assistance to victims or witness of crime, criminal harassment, trauma, and or physical or sexual assault.
Services include safety planning, referrals to community services, and accompaniment to police and court appearances. Police-based crisis intervention, support and education is also available in the community by the local RCMP detachment.
Family Caregivers of British Columbia Supports
Support for people caring for a family member or friend.
Looking Glass Eating Disorder Services
The Looking Glass Foundation provides programs and resources to individuals experiencing eating disorders and disordered eating.
Child, Youth & Family Mental Health Services Intake (Island Health)
Provides a comprehensive range of specialized, therapeutic services for children, youth, and their families living in the VIHA region (referral-based).
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.
Eating Disorder Peer Support Group
Offers a weekly peer support group for adults with an eating disorder or who struggle with food, exercise or body image that affects their quality of life or interferes with day-to-day living.
Peer facilitators are not counsellors but individuals who are in various places of recovery themselves. The group currently meets virtually by zoom only; see website how to join a meeting.