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Confident Parents: Thriving Kids Behaviour Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Provides a family-focused coaching service for parents of children with mild to moderate behavioural problems. Program sessions are held via telephone and parents are also provided with an accompanying manual which they work through with their coach.

Program focus includes: encouragement of positive behaviour; consequences for negative behaviour; monitoring of children's activities; problem solving; and positive involvement in children's interests, activities, and social development.

Available B.C. wide

We Are Indigenous: Big Worries/Fears, Parent & Caregiver Support Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Offers a free, virtual parent and caregiver coaching program to support First Nations, Métis and Inuit families across BC, whose children are struggling with the experience of big worries and fears, or what the Western worldview calls anxiety.

The program is guided by traditional knowledge from Indigenous communities and includes short online videos and scheduled telephone coaching sessions to provide families with tools to discuss what they are already doing, and to learn new practices and how to use these practices with their children.

Available B.C. wide

YouthInBC - Chat Line

Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia

Provides a web-based hotline for BC youth in distress. The service is provided through a live chat function and email. The website also provides resources and information on youth mental health issues, as well as links to the crisis intervention telephone line.

Available B.C. wide

Seniors' Distress Line

Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia

Provides a free and confidential telephone support service for seniors, their caregivers or anyone concerned about a senior. Calls are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by highly trained, non-judgemental and caring volunteers.

Those who may benefit from this service include seniors who are feeling alone, facing difficult life situations, wanting help working through a problem, or looking for information on community resources.

Available B.C. wide

Peer Support Groups

Mood Disorders Association of British Columbia

Offers a variety of support groups around the province for those with mental illness and mood disorders, their family and friends. Support groups are facilitated by trained volunteers with lived experience of mental health concerns.

The support groups are peer-led and offer a safe place to share stories, struggles and accomplishments, listen to others as they share similar concerns, and receive informal education about mental health challenges.

Available B.C. wide

Group Therapy

Mood Disorders Association of British Columbia

Offers a variety of medical treatment options to help individuals coping with depression, anxiety, trauma, and other mental health difficulties. Treatment options include psychodynamic group therapy, dialectical behavior treatment skills group, and narrative therapy. During group sessions, participants meet with others who may be going through similar challenges in their mental health journey and recovery. Group sessions are provided online.

Available B.C. wide

Wellness and Therapeutic Exercise

Mood Disorders Association of British Columbia

Offers group therapeutic wellness programs to help people living with a mood disorder, manage and work through difficult emotions such as anxiety, low mood, stress, and depression. Groups include physical activity and exercise, mindful movement for mood, and yoga therapy. Programs are provided online.

Available B.C. wide

Interpersonal Therapy

Mood Disorders Association of British Columbia

Offers individual and group therapy for people with depression and who have, or are, experiencing struggles with a very personal relationship that leads to feelings of frustration, loneliness and despair. Participants will have two individual sessions and then meet with others for online group sessions. A group is also available for new mothers experiencing perinatal depression to help them with relationship issues and challenges in motherhood.

Available B.C. wide

Community Support Groups

Autism Society of British Columbia

Provides an online listing of autism support groups available throughout the province. Groups offered include community groups to support families; adult groups for youth and adults on the autism spectrum; and sibling groups for siblings of individuals with autism and related disabilities.

Available B.C. wide

Substance Use Treatment Program

Phoenix Drug & Alcohol Recovery and Education Society

Provides residential addiction treatment in a supported home-like setting to adults and youth in BC who need help with severe substance use. Treatment includes assessment and stabilization, medication therapy, peer support, life-skills development, and harm reduction education. The program is approximately three months long and includes after-care support for up to a year following treatment.

13686 94A Avenue, Surrey, BC

Showing 111 - 120 of 170 Resources
Available B.C. wide

Confident Parents: Thriving Kids Behaviour Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Provides a family-focused coaching service for parents of children with mild to moderate behavioural problems. Program sessions are held via telephone and parents are also provided with an accompanying manual which they work through with their coach.

Program focus includes: encouragement of positive behaviour; consequences for negative behaviour; monitoring of children's activities; problem solving; and positive involvement in children's interests, activities, and social development.

Available B.C. wide

We Are Indigenous: Big Worries/Fears, Parent & Caregiver Support Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Offers a free, virtual parent and caregiver coaching program to support First Nations, Métis and Inuit families across BC, whose children are struggling with the experience of big worries and fears, or what the Western worldview calls anxiety.

The program is guided by traditional knowledge from Indigenous communities and includes short online videos and scheduled telephone coaching sessions to provide families with tools to discuss what they are already doing, and to learn new practices and how to use these practices with their children.

Available B.C. wide

YouthInBC - Chat Line

Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia

Provides a web-based hotline for BC youth in distress. The service is provided through a live chat function and email. The website also provides resources and information on youth mental health issues, as well as links to the crisis intervention telephone line.

Available B.C. wide

Seniors' Distress Line

Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia

Provides a free and confidential telephone support service for seniors, their caregivers or anyone concerned about a senior. Calls are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by highly trained, non-judgemental and caring volunteers.

Those who may benefit from this service include seniors who are feeling alone, facing difficult life situations, wanting help working through a problem, or looking for information on community resources.

Available B.C. wide

Peer Support Groups

Mood Disorders Association of British Columbia

Offers a variety of support groups around the province for those with mental illness and mood disorders, their family and friends. Support groups are facilitated by trained volunteers with lived experience of mental health concerns.

The support groups are peer-led and offer a safe place to share stories, struggles and accomplishments, listen to others as they share similar concerns, and receive informal education about mental health challenges.

Available B.C. wide

Group Therapy

Mood Disorders Association of British Columbia

Offers a variety of medical treatment options to help individuals coping with depression, anxiety, trauma, and other mental health difficulties. Treatment options include psychodynamic group therapy, dialectical behavior treatment skills group, and narrative therapy. During group sessions, participants meet with others who may be going through similar challenges in their mental health journey and recovery. Group sessions are provided online.

Available B.C. wide

Wellness and Therapeutic Exercise

Mood Disorders Association of British Columbia

Offers group therapeutic wellness programs to help people living with a mood disorder, manage and work through difficult emotions such as anxiety, low mood, stress, and depression. Groups include physical activity and exercise, mindful movement for mood, and yoga therapy. Programs are provided online.

Available B.C. wide

Interpersonal Therapy

Mood Disorders Association of British Columbia

Offers individual and group therapy for people with depression and who have, or are, experiencing struggles with a very personal relationship that leads to feelings of frustration, loneliness and despair. Participants will have two individual sessions and then meet with others for online group sessions. A group is also available for new mothers experiencing perinatal depression to help them with relationship issues and challenges in motherhood.

Available B.C. wide

Community Support Groups

Autism Society of British Columbia

Provides an online listing of autism support groups available throughout the province. Groups offered include community groups to support families; adult groups for youth and adults on the autism spectrum; and sibling groups for siblings of individuals with autism and related disabilities.

Available B.C. wide

Substance Use Treatment Program

Phoenix Drug & Alcohol Recovery and Education Society

Provides residential addiction treatment in a supported home-like setting to adults and youth in BC who need help with severe substance use. Treatment includes assessment and stabilization, medication therapy, peer support, life-skills development, and harm reduction education. The program is approximately three months long and includes after-care support for up to a year following treatment.

13686 94A Avenue, Surrey, BC

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