Oversees and regulates quality assurance programs to ensure that physicians in the province are practising to professional standards. The Drug Program includes the Prescription Review Program, Methadone for Analgesia, and the Controlled Prescription Program. See website for detailed program information, resources, guidelines, and patient information.

Provides confidential 24-hour support, referrals and counselling for physicians, medical students, resident doctors, retired physicians, partners and dependent children.

Areas of concern can include relationships, mental health issues, career and life transition, substance use, financial issues, professional support, and concern for colleagues.

Offers online mental health tools and resources for youth, families, teachers and health care providers.

Resources include web links designed specifically for youth who have questions or concerns about their mental wellbeing, as well as a collection of websites containing resources and information to support friends, family and caregivers of youth who may be experiencing a mental health problem.

Provides coverage of certain psychiatric medications to individuals of any age who are registered with a mental health services centre and who demonstrate clinical and financial need. Eligible medications are listed in the Psychiatric Medication Plan (Plan G) formulary. Individual patient eligibility is verified by the patient's physician and the local Mental Health and Substance Use Centre, or if the patient is a minor, a Child and Youth Mental Health Centre. Registration is required.

Provides people living in B.C. with 24-hour access to approved health information and detailed information on health care, mental health and substance use services throughout the province online and by telephone at 8-1-1.

By calling 8-1-1, you can speak to a health service navigator, who can help you find health information and services; or connect you directly with a registered nurse, a registered dietitian, a qualified exercise professional, or a pharmacist. Any one of these healthcare professionals will help you get the information you need to manage your health concerns, or those of your family.

Provides outreach services to help people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Outreach workers meet clients where they are such as on the street, in a shelter or in a temporary place; and listen to housing and health needs, connect and or introduce to required services, and try to match clients with housing that's appropriate and available.

Provides housing information and resources for anyone who is homeless or at risk of homelessness. Outreach workers come from Aboriginal, community-based organizations and are able to connect people and provide services from an Aboriginal perspective.

In both urban and rural regions of BC, outreach workers meet with people to listen to their housing and health needs, connect and or introduce them to required services, and try to match them with housing that's appropriate and available.

Provides emergency shelter information and resources for anyone who is homeless or at risk of homelessness. Shelters include year-round shelters, temporary shelters and extreme winter shelters.

Emergency shelters provide a place to sleep, eat and wash. Some shelters may offer additional services such as medical support, meals, access to support staff and individualized help from a case worker, a secure area for belongings, and resource room with library, computers, phone or TV.

The service has Health Services Coordinators throughout the province that assists BC Housing tenants in public housing developments on a variety of health-related issues. The coordinators do not offer medical advice, but they can direct clients to community services for help, including referrals to mental health services, grief support after the loss of a loved one, community health care, diabetes clinics, domestic violence units, and addictions counselling.

Provides low-income adults needing subsidized housing with on-site supports, a single point of access to register for supported housing that is funded through BC Housing. Applicants are able to register once, rather than registering with multiple housing providers.

Supportive housing provides a range of on-site, non-clinical supports, such as life-skills training, and connections to primary health care, mental health or substance use services.