Integrated Child and Youth Teams
Provides wrap-around mental health and substance use services to children and youth. Multi-disciplinary teams may include program leaders, clinicians, counsellors, peer supports, Indigenous supports, or multicultural supports.
Teams provide services where children and youth feel safe and comfortable, within school district areas. They will deliver outreach or outbound services as well as meet in office settings. See website for regional contacts to access services.
Virtual Substance Use and Psychiatry Service
Provides Indigenous people in BC access to specialists in addictions medicine and psychiatry through video conferencing or in a health centre or client's home.
Clients work with their care providers to choose a location for the appointments. Referral providers are encouraged to attend appointments to provide local knowledge for care planning and continued client support.
BC Autism Assessment Network
Provides assessment and diagnosis of autism in children through a network of specialists and health care professionals across British Columbia.
Indigenous Youth Wellness
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.
Francophone Services
Provides an online listing of BC health resource and services available in French, as well as information about the BC health system explained in French.
The Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deaf-Blind Well-Being Program
Provides mental health services for deaf, hard of hearing and deaf-blind individuals throughout BC. Support includes interpreting, life skills workshops, individual and family counselling, group programs, advocacy, mental health information and resources.
4211 Kingsway, Burnaby, BC
Healthy Children
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.
Open Mind
Offers online mental health tools and resources for youth, families, teachers and health care providers.
Resources include web links designed specifically for youth who have questions or concerns about their mental wellbeing, as well as a collection of websites containing resources and information to support friends, family and caregivers of youth who may be experiencing a mental health problem.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Unit
Provides short-stay crisis care for children and youth from BC and the Yukon Territories, who are experiencing acute mental health challenges. An interdisciplinary team provides emergency assessments and stabilization, diagnostic tests and procedures, and treatment planning.
The CAPE unit accepts patients by direct physician-to-physician referral only. If a child is in crisis, please access your closest local emergency department by presenting directly to hospital or calling 9-1-1.
4555 Heather Street, Vancouver, BC
Children and Youth Outpatient Mental Health Services
Provides assessment, treatment and consultation for children and youth with complex mental health and substance use concerns who live in BC and the Yukon. The programs are offered at specialized outpatient clinics based on the treatment that is recommended.
Consultation is offered for a wide variety of mental health concerns including mood disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), neurodevelopmental conditions, concurrent disorders, self-injury behaviour, gender dysphoria, and early childhood mental health problems.
4555 Heather Street, Vancouver, BC