First Nations Wellness
Offers online information, tips and resources to improve First Nations health and wellness. Topic areas include being active, healthy eating, mental wellness and substance use, spiritual health, environmental health and safety, primary care, and traditional wellness.
Indigenous Youth Wellness
Provides Indigenous youth wellness promotion and suicide prevention through online activities and training and in community based youth groups.
The Cuystwi program offers online wellness quests with themes on identity, culture, understanding colonization, tools to deal with racism, healthy relationships, and sexual health.
Also offers Ask Auntie - a girl-specific program with themes on identity, culture and connection, relationships and safety, wellness, body knowledge and body transitions, and healing.
Indigenous Mental Health and Wellness
Offers in-hospital and community support to help Indigenous people and their families with accessing culturally appropriate mental health services. Patient navigators work directly with mental health workers to help patients understand and navigate the health care system, as well as provide assessment, counselling, and referrals to community services.
Hope for Wellness Help Line
Offers immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada. Experienced and culturally competent counsellors can help those who wish to talk, are distressed, in crisis, or having strong emotional reactions and or painful memories. Online chat is also available.
Emotional Well-being Support Groups
Provides an online listing of support groups available in BC for individuals who have emotional challenges such as excessive anger, resentment, depression, grief, anxiety, and compulsive behaviours. Groups are offered online, by phone or in-person.
Indigenous Wellness
Provides holistic culture-based programming to support Indigenous communities experiencing serious illness, grief and bereavement. Culturally-safe programs support Indigenous people on their healing journeys through Elder meetings and support, grief counselling, land-based activities, grief support groups, and community gatherings that use the power of art and music.
322-198 Island Highway E, Parksville, BC
The Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deaf-Blind Well-Being Program
Provides mental health services for deaf, hard of hearing and deaf-blind individuals throughout BC. Support includes interpreting, life skills workshops, individual and family counselling, group programs, advocacy, mental health information and resources.
4211 Kingsway, Burnaby, BC
People Working Well
Offers mental health resources and free training for employers and employees in BC who work in the tourism, hospitality and community social services industry. Resources include a range of tools to help with workplace concerns such as supporting colleagues through crisis, neurodiversity in the workplace and managing change effectively.
You can register for webinars, sign up for training, or connect to a workplace psychological consultant who can guide an individual, team or organization through making changes.
Mental Health and Wellness
Provides community-based and culturally appropriate mental health and substance use services for Indigenous people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Victoria. Services include community outreach, women's healing circles, sexual assault support, and counselling and addiction treatment referrals.
Pain Support and Wellness Groups
Offers online group peer support for individuals living with persistent pain to meet regularly and build a community of support. Participants share their experiences, pain management and coping strategies, and take part in gentle movements.