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Y Mind Youth

YMCA BC

Offers a free support group for young adults who experience anxiety. Participants learn healthy coping skills, connect with other young people in the community, and get support all in a safe and friendly environment. Programming is supervised by trained mental health professionals.

The program includes take-home resources to help manage anxiety in between weekly meetings, and a 14 week YMCA gym membership to encourage youth to manage their anxiety through physical activity.

Homicide Grief Support Groups

British Columbia Bereavement Helpline

Offers group support in a safe, non-judgmental environment to families and friends of individuals who have survived the loss of a loved one by homicide. Groups meet once a week for eight weeks.

Participants come together to support each other, listen to others who have experienced a similar loss, and as well learn grief and mourning tools to help in their daily lives.

Healthy Choices Program

Whistler Community Services Society

Provides school and community-based youth, staff and families in the Sea-to-Sky corridor with prevention-based educational programming. Sessions are age-appropriate and include topics such as mental health and wellness, substance use, self-harm and suicide, nutrition, gender and sexuality, sleep hygiene, and healthy relationships.

Chimo Crisis Line - Richmond

Chimo Community Services

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.

Mobile Harm Reduction Outreach

Lookout Housing and Health Society

Provides harm reduction supplies including clean needles to groups, individuals and organizations throughout Langley, Aldergrove, Delta and White Rock. Outreach services also are provided through the Rig Riders peer-based mobile bike team in Surrey and Langley.

Outreach workers take the opportunity to teach clients safer harm reduction practices, overdose prevention, as well as provide referrals to health and substance use services and other social supports.

Telecare Crisis and Caring Line

Central Fraser Valley Telecare

Provides telephone befriending, caring, and empathetic listening for people in moments of personal crisis or distress.

Outreach

Building Healthy Families Society

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.

Substance Use Information and Referral

East Kootenay Addiction Services Society

Provides resources for youth, adults, and caregivers dealing with difficulties from their own or someone else's substance use. Resources include substance use information, an online video library, web links, and self-assessments.

Also provides referral information on approved residential treatment and detox facilities, school based educational programs, community education, outreach, and harm reduction programs.

Vancouver Island Crisis Line

Vancouver Island Crisis Society

Provides 24-hour crisis line support including suicide assessment, crisis intervention, access to mental health crisis response services, and island-wide community resources. Also offers crisis text services and online chat.

Crisis Line - East Kootenay

Canadian Mental Health Association - Kootenays Branch

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. A trained staff member or volunteer is available to listen, provide information, and support in an anonymous and confidential manner.

Program offers: suicide intervention, information about available services, and non-judgmental support during challenging times.

Showing 221 - 230 of 528 Resources

Y Mind Youth

YMCA BC

Offers a free support group for young adults who experience anxiety. Participants learn healthy coping skills, connect with other young people in the community, and get support all in a safe and friendly environment. Programming is supervised by trained mental health professionals.

The program includes take-home resources to help manage anxiety in between weekly meetings, and a 14 week YMCA gym membership to encourage youth to manage their anxiety through physical activity.

Homicide Grief Support Groups

British Columbia Bereavement Helpline

Offers group support in a safe, non-judgmental environment to families and friends of individuals who have survived the loss of a loved one by homicide. Groups meet once a week for eight weeks.

Participants come together to support each other, listen to others who have experienced a similar loss, and as well learn grief and mourning tools to help in their daily lives.

Healthy Choices Program

Whistler Community Services Society

Provides school and community-based youth, staff and families in the Sea-to-Sky corridor with prevention-based educational programming. Sessions are age-appropriate and include topics such as mental health and wellness, substance use, self-harm and suicide, nutrition, gender and sexuality, sleep hygiene, and healthy relationships.

Chimo Crisis Line - Richmond

Chimo Community Services

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.

Mobile Harm Reduction Outreach

Lookout Housing and Health Society

Provides harm reduction supplies including clean needles to groups, individuals and organizations throughout Langley, Aldergrove, Delta and White Rock. Outreach services also are provided through the Rig Riders peer-based mobile bike team in Surrey and Langley.

Outreach workers take the opportunity to teach clients safer harm reduction practices, overdose prevention, as well as provide referrals to health and substance use services and other social supports.

Telecare Crisis and Caring Line

Central Fraser Valley Telecare

Provides telephone befriending, caring, and empathetic listening for people in moments of personal crisis or distress.

Outreach

Building Healthy Families Society

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.

Substance Use Information and Referral

East Kootenay Addiction Services Society

Provides resources for youth, adults, and caregivers dealing with difficulties from their own or someone else's substance use. Resources include substance use information, an online video library, web links, and self-assessments.

Also provides referral information on approved residential treatment and detox facilities, school based educational programs, community education, outreach, and harm reduction programs.

Vancouver Island Crisis Line

Vancouver Island Crisis Society

Provides 24-hour crisis line support including suicide assessment, crisis intervention, access to mental health crisis response services, and island-wide community resources. Also offers crisis text services and online chat.

Crisis Line - East Kootenay

Canadian Mental Health Association - Kootenays Branch

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. A trained staff member or volunteer is available to listen, provide information, and support in an anonymous and confidential manner.

Program offers: suicide intervention, information about available services, and non-judgmental support during challenging times.

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