Crisis Response
Provides 24-hour telephone help for youth and individuals with developmental disabilities in crisis. A trained staff member or volunteer is available to listen, provide information and support, in an anonymous and confidential manner.
Aboriginal Patient Navigator
Provides referral, advocacy and support to Aboriginal clients and families to help them connect to the right services to meet their health care needs. Program goal is to ensure aboriginal patients' health care experience is culturally safe and inclusive; services may include navigation at East Kootenay Regional Hospital, discharge planning, promoting access to community services, and assistance in understanding community service systems.
Family Support Services
Provides support to families of individuals with mental health and or substance use issues. Programs include in-person learning and information sessions, respite services, and parent support group.
Child and Youth Mental Health
Provides a child and youth mental health consultant to work with youth, families and communities in providing a health assessment, create a treatment plan, and to increase protective factors, reduce risk factors, and build capacity to support the mental health of children and youth using cultural and holistic approaches. Also provides referrals to other mental health services within the community.
Child and Youth Mental Health Clinics
Free mental health clinics for children and youth in locations across B.C.
FamilySmart
Free programs that help B.C. families and caregivers who are parenting children and youth facing mental health challenges.
Adolescent Health and Medicine
Provides assessment, clinical services, education and training to youth with complex health issues that are affecting their relationship with peers, school and or family life. Youth are helped to move towards a healthy adulthood through setting goals, finding resources, and better health and wellbeing.
Topic areas include friendships, sexuality, home life, drugs, mood and worries, sleep, eating, health conditions, school, and social challenges.
4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC
Autism Assessment
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
Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre - Dala Program
Provides residential treatment, assessment and intervention for fragile youth with symptoms like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia or other thought disorders. The program helps teens with improving their mental health, developing social and family support networks, and with learning life skills necessary to enhance their quality of life.
2721 Lougheed Highway, Coquitlam, BC
Autism Funding
Provides funding for eligible autism intervention services and therapies for children and youth. The funding helps families with the cost of purchasing autism intervention services to promote child's communication, social-emotional, academic, and functional life skills development.