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.
Métis Crisis Line
Operates a 24-hour crisis line for Métis people of all ages throughout BC. Services include risk assessments, safety monitoring, connection to local Métis chartered communities and service providers.
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.
Peer Assisted Care Team
Provides emergency response to crisis calls related to mental health and or substance use situations or crisis concerns. The program pairs a mental health professional and a peer worker to provide trauma-informed, culturally safe support to youth and adults in Victoria.
Teams respond alongside or instead of police to help de-escalate situations and connect people to ongoing community services and supports.
Peer Assisted Care Team
Provides emergency response to crisis calls related to mental health and or substance use situations or crisis concerns. The program pairs a mental health professional and a peer worker to provide trauma-informed, culturally safe support to youth and adults in Prince George.
Teams respond alongside or instead of police to help de-escalate situations and connect people to ongoing community services and supports.
Peer Assisted Care Team
Provides emergency response to crisis calls related to mental health and or substance use situations or crisis concerns. The program pairs a mental health professional and a peer worker to provide trauma-informed, culturally safe support to youth and adults on the North Shore.
Teams respond alongside or instead of police to help de-escalate situations and connect people to ongoing community services and supports.
Peer Assisted Care Team
Provides emergency response to crisis calls related to mental health and or substance use situations or crisis concerns. The program pairs a mental health professional and a peer worker to provide trauma-informed, culturally safe support to youth and adults in the city of New Westminster.
Teams respond alongside or instead of police to help de-escalate situations and connect people to ongoing community services and supports.
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.