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Available B.C. wide

Aboriginal Homeless Outreach Program

BC Housing

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.

Available B.C. wide

Emergency Shelter Program

BC Housing

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.

Available B.C. wide

Public Housing Health Services

BC Housing

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.

Available B.C. wide

Supportive Housing Registration Service

BC Housing

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.

Multiple Locations

Available B.C. wide

Alcoholics Anonymous Support Groups

Alcoholics Anonymous - BC Yukon Area 79

Provides an online listing of support groups available in BC for men and women who need support to stop drinking and recover from alcoholism. Twelve Steps of recovery and Twelve Traditions are used for knowledge and wisdom.

Available B.C. wide

Community Transition Teams

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Provides care coordination and transitional support to individuals with substance use disorder and complex mental health needs who are leaving the 10 provincial correctional facilities in BC.

Service includes short-term access to primary care, psychiatric treatment, relapse management, counselling, opioid agonist therapy, and information and referral to mental health and substance use services in the community for up to 90 days.

Available B.C. wide

Provincial Substance Use Treatment Program

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Provides specialized addiction treatment in a supported home-like setting for adults in BC who need help with severe substance use. The program is approximately three months long and includes after-care support for up to a year following treatment.

The program includes assessment and stabilization, counselling, supportive treatment, medication therapy, peer support, life skills development, family programs, and education about mental illness and substance use.

1795 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC

Available B.C. wide

Red Fish Healing Centre for Mental Health and Addiction

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Provides specialized inpatient treatment and recovery services for adults in BC with concurrent disorder; a combination of a severe mental illness and substance use disorder. The centre also includes research, education, virtual health, and teaching spaces.

Clients receive trauma-informed, culturally safe care that focuses on mental and physical wellness as well as support with their recovery and healing journey so they can gradually transition to care in their home community.

8-2745 Lougheed Highway, Coquitlam, BC

Available B.C. wide

Hospice Palliative Care Information

British Columbia Hospice Palliative Care Association

Provides information on hospice palliative care for professionals, volunteers and the public. Provides educational resources for the establishment and maintenance of organizations devoted to providing end-of-life care and has a network of communication and shared resources for all those concerned with the care of the dying and bereaved in BC.

Available B.C. wide

Gamblers Anonymous Support Meetings

Gamblers Anonymous

Provides group support meetings for individuals to share their experiences, strengths and hopes with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from a gambling problem. Meetings are made up completely of recovering members and have no professionals or counsellors. Provides a self-help program where members grow and recover at their own pace.

Showing 151 - 160 of 560 Resources
Available B.C. wide

Aboriginal Homeless Outreach Program

BC Housing

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.

Available B.C. wide

Emergency Shelter Program

BC Housing

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.

Available B.C. wide

Public Housing Health Services

BC Housing

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.

Available B.C. wide

Supportive Housing Registration Service

BC Housing

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.

Multiple Locations

Available B.C. wide

Alcoholics Anonymous Support Groups

Alcoholics Anonymous - BC Yukon Area 79

Provides an online listing of support groups available in BC for men and women who need support to stop drinking and recover from alcoholism. Twelve Steps of recovery and Twelve Traditions are used for knowledge and wisdom.

Available B.C. wide

Community Transition Teams

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Provides care coordination and transitional support to individuals with substance use disorder and complex mental health needs who are leaving the 10 provincial correctional facilities in BC.

Service includes short-term access to primary care, psychiatric treatment, relapse management, counselling, opioid agonist therapy, and information and referral to mental health and substance use services in the community for up to 90 days.

Available B.C. wide

Provincial Substance Use Treatment Program

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Provides specialized addiction treatment in a supported home-like setting for adults in BC who need help with severe substance use. The program is approximately three months long and includes after-care support for up to a year following treatment.

The program includes assessment and stabilization, counselling, supportive treatment, medication therapy, peer support, life skills development, family programs, and education about mental illness and substance use.

1795 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC

Available B.C. wide

Red Fish Healing Centre for Mental Health and Addiction

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Provides specialized inpatient treatment and recovery services for adults in BC with concurrent disorder; a combination of a severe mental illness and substance use disorder. The centre also includes research, education, virtual health, and teaching spaces.

Clients receive trauma-informed, culturally safe care that focuses on mental and physical wellness as well as support with their recovery and healing journey so they can gradually transition to care in their home community.

8-2745 Lougheed Highway, Coquitlam, BC

Available B.C. wide

Hospice Palliative Care Information

British Columbia Hospice Palliative Care Association

Provides information on hospice palliative care for professionals, volunteers and the public. Provides educational resources for the establishment and maintenance of organizations devoted to providing end-of-life care and has a network of communication and shared resources for all those concerned with the care of the dying and bereaved in BC.

Available B.C. wide

Gamblers Anonymous Support Meetings

Gamblers Anonymous

Provides group support meetings for individuals to share their experiences, strengths and hopes with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from a gambling problem. Meetings are made up completely of recovering members and have no professionals or counsellors. Provides a self-help program where members grow and recover at their own pace.

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