Looking Glass Eating Disorder Services
The Looking Glass Foundation provides programs and resources to individuals experiencing eating disorders and disordered eating.
Keeping Connected Caregiver Telephone Support
Offers telephone support to family, friends and caregivers providing palliative care to a loved one. Trained volunteers provide a compassionate presence and a listening ear. Through regular phone contacts, volunteers offer caregivers an opportunity to share experiences and feelings around providing care to their loved one.
Intensive Case Management Team
Offers a variety of client-centered services to individuals who are at risk due to substance misuse, with or without mental health issues, with a focus on the homeless or those at risk of becoming homeless. The team works with clients where they are at physically - on the street, in shelters, or in their homes.
Services include housing support, substance use counselling and access to treatment, rent supplements, medical care assessment, life skills support and skill building, medication management, and referrals to community resources and income services.
Parenting Outreach
Offers a virtual support group to support the well-being of parents of toddlers, school age and teenage children. The group is a safe place to connect with other parents, share experiences, and learn coping skills related to stress during the current pandemic.
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.
Chimo Crisis Line - Richmond
Provides free, confidential emotional support and information to individuals in distress, crisis or who need someone to talk with. Professional volunteers are available by telephone or online chat.
Family Preservation
Offers early childhood development programs for families living on reserve. Support may be provided in the family's home, in the community, or at the office of a variety of other service providers.
Services include support groups, advocacy for legal or court process, life skills and parenting education, family events, support programs for school-aged children, and pre-natal to early childhood development support. The program aims to keep children and families together and increase the family's ability to safely care for and nurture their children.
Peer Support Program
Offers peer-to-peer support to adults recovering from an on-going mental illness and in the initial stages of recovery. Services are provided in the community and at Richmond General Hospital.
Peer support workers have personal experience with mental illness and are able to offer support and encouragement, and help with reaching personal goals, more independence and confidence.
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.
Counsellors' help children to label and express feelings they have experienced as result of abuse witnessed and or experienced, as well as teach them healthy ways to communicate, problem-solve and cope.
Outreach
Offers parents with limited or no support, the knowledge, skills, and support necessary to build enduring and healthy relationships with their children.
Services include in-home one-to-one support and training, referrals to community resources, and support to families with children reintegrating back into the home.