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Health Information and Support Services

The British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society

Provides a variety of services to eligible individuals, families, and organizations both within Indigenous communities and within urban and rural centres. Services cover a wide range of health issues, topics and priorities, as well as enhance and support access to health information and services within the community.

Available B.C. wide

Community Helpline

Sahas Community Services Society

Provides culturally-safe phone support in multiple languages to individuals and families in BC experiencing crisis or distress. Trained volunteers and staff provide non-judgmental emotional support, information and referrals. Case management services are also available.

Available B.C. wide

Mental Health Support

Support Network for Indigenous Women and Women of Colour

Provides free one-on-one counselling for low-income women black, Indigenous, and people of colour including transgender and two-spirit community members. Services are offered virtually and where available, in-person.

Areas of support include racialized trauma, depression, sexuality and or gender issues, adjustment, low self-esteem, anxiety, stress management, and negative thoughts.

203-2722 Fifth Street, Victoria, BC

Available B.C. wide

Y Mind Adult

YMCA BC

Offers a free online support group for adults who experience stress and mild to moderate anxiety. Participants come together to learn healthy coping skills and connect with others who are experiencing similar thoughts and feelings.

Available B.C. wide

Mental Health Information

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Provides online mental health information and resources for specific mental illnesses, treatment and recovery, alcohol and drug use, and coping with mental health crises and emergencies.

Available B.C. wide

Hand in Hand Peer Support

Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders

Offers a peer support program that matches adults and older youth with a trained volunteer who provides compassionate, judgment-free support and listening during eating disorder recovery. Support is provided in-person or over video call.

The program supports individuals wherever they are in their unique recovery journey and, through the consistent and personalized support of a mentor, helps them to discover what they can achieve, as they are ready.

Available B.C. wide

Suicide Grief Support

British Columbia Bereavement Helpline

Offers a support group for individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide. Trained facilitators provide a safe, non-judgemental, compassionate environment where participants can share experiences, learn grief and mourning tools, and receive community connections, practical information and support. Provided in partnership with the BC Crisis Centre.

Available B.C. wide

Two-Spirit Information and Support

Dancing to Eagle Spirit Society

Provides online information and resources to support the emotional and spiritual needs of Aboriginal and non-aboriginal two-spirit individuals, their family and friends. Healing circles, sweat lodge ceremonies, community events and smudging circles are also available on a regular basis and by request.

Available B.C. wide

BIPOC Therapist Directory

The Healing in Colour Society

Provides a directory of black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) therapists in BC committed to supporting and understanding the lived experiences of BIPOC in all intersections.

Available B.C. wide

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Skills Groups

Mind Space Skills for Wellbeing Society

Offers a variety of virtual and in-person mental health skills training groups for adults and their caregivers with mild to moderate anxiety, depression, insomnia, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The groups teach practical tools to recognize, understand and manage patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving for daily life to better manage stress and symptoms.

Groups are facilitated by trained physicians who uses strategies based on cognitive behavioural therapy such as mindfulness, emotion regulation and acceptance and commitment therapy.

Showing 61 - 70 of 88 Resources
Available B.C. wide

Health Information and Support Services

The British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society

Provides a variety of services to eligible individuals, families, and organizations both within Indigenous communities and within urban and rural centres. Services cover a wide range of health issues, topics and priorities, as well as enhance and support access to health information and services within the community.

Available B.C. wide

Community Helpline

Sahas Community Services Society

Provides culturally-safe phone support in multiple languages to individuals and families in BC experiencing crisis or distress. Trained volunteers and staff provide non-judgmental emotional support, information and referrals. Case management services are also available.

Available B.C. wide

Mental Health Support

Support Network for Indigenous Women and Women of Colour

Provides free one-on-one counselling for low-income women black, Indigenous, and people of colour including transgender and two-spirit community members. Services are offered virtually and where available, in-person.

Areas of support include racialized trauma, depression, sexuality and or gender issues, adjustment, low self-esteem, anxiety, stress management, and negative thoughts.

203-2722 Fifth Street, Victoria, BC

Available B.C. wide

Y Mind Adult

YMCA BC

Offers a free online support group for adults who experience stress and mild to moderate anxiety. Participants come together to learn healthy coping skills and connect with others who are experiencing similar thoughts and feelings.

Available B.C. wide

Mental Health Information

Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Provides online mental health information and resources for specific mental illnesses, treatment and recovery, alcohol and drug use, and coping with mental health crises and emergencies.

Available B.C. wide

Hand in Hand Peer Support

Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders

Offers a peer support program that matches adults and older youth with a trained volunteer who provides compassionate, judgment-free support and listening during eating disorder recovery. Support is provided in-person or over video call.

The program supports individuals wherever they are in their unique recovery journey and, through the consistent and personalized support of a mentor, helps them to discover what they can achieve, as they are ready.

Available B.C. wide

Suicide Grief Support

British Columbia Bereavement Helpline

Offers a support group for individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide. Trained facilitators provide a safe, non-judgemental, compassionate environment where participants can share experiences, learn grief and mourning tools, and receive community connections, practical information and support. Provided in partnership with the BC Crisis Centre.

Available B.C. wide

Two-Spirit Information and Support

Dancing to Eagle Spirit Society

Provides online information and resources to support the emotional and spiritual needs of Aboriginal and non-aboriginal two-spirit individuals, their family and friends. Healing circles, sweat lodge ceremonies, community events and smudging circles are also available on a regular basis and by request.

Available B.C. wide

BIPOC Therapist Directory

The Healing in Colour Society

Provides a directory of black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) therapists in BC committed to supporting and understanding the lived experiences of BIPOC in all intersections.

Available B.C. wide

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Skills Groups

Mind Space Skills for Wellbeing Society

Offers a variety of virtual and in-person mental health skills training groups for adults and their caregivers with mild to moderate anxiety, depression, insomnia, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The groups teach practical tools to recognize, understand and manage patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving for daily life to better manage stress and symptoms.

Groups are facilitated by trained physicians who uses strategies based on cognitive behavioural therapy such as mindfulness, emotion regulation and acceptance and commitment therapy.

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