Mobile Outreach
Offers mobile outreach to help people experiencing homelessness or are at-risk of homelessness in Comox Valley. Mobile vehicle travels in various areas and provide food, clothing, hygiene items, and sleeping bags.
Services include health assessments and monitoring, wound care, mental health and substance use supports, harm reduction supplies, advocacy, and referrals to other community services.
Interior Region Family Navigator
Provides a toll-free phone line for parents and caregivers of children, youth, or dependent adults living in the interior of BC, who are unsure how to find mental health services, or information about mental health and substance use issues.
Navigators listen to concerns, find out what supports are needed, and then assist the caller in finding relevant, local community resources.
Saferide
Provides a mobile response unit dedicated to providing safe transportation, within the healthcare system, for clients with alcohol and drug problems who are seeking relief from their addictions.
The program receives emergency and non-emergency shuttle requests from its partnering agencies including the Vancouver Police Department, Emergency Health Services, and the Vancouver Fire Department. Also works in partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health and the City of Vancouver.
Youth Mental Health Information and Resources
Provides an online listing of mental health resources for youth in grades seven to twelve. Information, support, tips and techniques can be found on many BC websites, and free mental health and relaxation apps can also be downloaded for phones and mobile devices.
Mobile Harm Reduction Outreach
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.
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.
Youth Residential Treatment Program
Offers a residential treatment program to help youth recover from substance use, including drug and alcohol addiction. Peak House is located in Vancouver and open to all youth in BC who need a more intensive level of service than can be provided in their home community.
The program includes individual and group counselling, life-skills training, fitness and social activities, assessment, relapse prevention, and aftercare planning. Elder visits for Indigenous connections are also available.
220-825 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC
All My Relations
Provides a 90-day residential addiction treatment program for any male that has a desire to use Indigenous healing in their recovery from substance use. The program blends western-based treatment and Indigenous healing practices for all types of addiction including alcohol, opiate, marijuana, and stimulant addiction.
Program includes individual and group therapy sessions, 12-step model of recovery, wellness programs, cultural programming, and aftercare planning. Program operates in two houses located in Surrey, BC.
2831 Kingsway, Vancouver, BC
Rapid Access Addiction Clinics (RAACs)
Rapid Access Addiction Clinics provide support for people who are ready to change how they're using substances.
Community Information and Volunteer Centre
Provides community information about organizations, government programs, health services through an area-wide online database of community resources, by email, phone, or walk-in inquiry, in addition to information on volunteering in the Central Okanagan.
Publications include: Directory of Community Services; Children and Youth Special Needs Resource Guide; Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health & Substance Use Resource Guide for Professionals and Service Providers; Mental Health Resources for Children and Youth; Healthy Aging Seniors Resource and Support Guide; and Suicide Prevention Handbook.