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Telecare Crisis and Caring Line

Central Fraser Valley Telecare

Provides telephone befriending, caring, and empathetic listening for people in moments of personal crisis or distress.

Intensive Case Management Team

Langley Community Services Society

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.

Crisis Response, Community Led - New Westminster

Lower Mainland Purpose Society for Youth and Families

Provides emergency response to crisis calls related to mental health situations or crisis concerns. Crisis responders may include a mental health professional and a peer worker with lived experience working together to provide in-person support to youth and adults in New Westminster.

A team of crisis responders are trained to help reduce distress, provide safety and support, help with referrals to other services and offer post-crisis follow-up.

Women's Safety and Outreach Program

Battered Women's Support Services Association

Provides mobile crisis support to girl and women survivors of assault and or sexual abuse in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside. Support includes crisis intervention, counselling, safety planning, information and referrals, hospital accompaniments, assistance with shelter and housing, harm reduction supplies, and advocacy.

Peer Support Program - Northern BC

Spinal Cord Injury BC

Offers in-person peer mentoring and a virtual peer group, to help people with spinal cord injuries and those with related disabilities, overcome the challenges of living with a disability. Peer events, weekly and monthly coffee groups are also available in some communities.

Peer Support Program - Vancouver Island

Spinal Cord Injury BC

Offers in-person peer mentoring and a virtual peer group, to help people with spinal cord injuries and those with related disabilities, overcome the challenges of living with a disability. Peer events, weekly and monthly coffee groups are also available in some communities.

Peer Support Program - Okanagan

Spinal Cord Injury BC

Offers in-person peer mentoring and a virtual peer group, to help people with spinal cord injuries and those with related disabilities, overcome the challenges of living with a disability. Peer events, weekly and monthly coffee groups are also available in some communities.

South Asian LGBTQ Support Services

Sher Vancouver LGBTQ Friends Society

Offers advocacy, education and counselling to LGBTQ south Asians, their friends, families and allies in the Greater Vancouver area. Services include outreach, volunteer opportunities, information and referral services.

Peer support includes groups for queer south Asian youth and friends; social group for south Asian lesbian, bisexual and trans women; and a group for queer south Asian men and friends.

Youth Counselling and Family Support

Day One Treatment Society

Provides counselling to young people between 12 - 25 years of age through the Youth Addictions Outreach Worker. Includes screening, assessment, ongoing treatment counselling and/or referrals to detox, and residential treatment resources. Additional services provided to the community include parent support, interactive school presentations and rapid response to school based incidents involving alcohol and other drugs and community consultations. Serves the Kamloops and Merritt communities.

Saferide

Vancouver Recovery Club

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.

Showing 221 - 230 of 534 Resources

Telecare Crisis and Caring Line

Central Fraser Valley Telecare

Provides telephone befriending, caring, and empathetic listening for people in moments of personal crisis or distress.

Intensive Case Management Team

Langley Community Services Society

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.

Crisis Response, Community Led - New Westminster

Lower Mainland Purpose Society for Youth and Families

Provides emergency response to crisis calls related to mental health situations or crisis concerns. Crisis responders may include a mental health professional and a peer worker with lived experience working together to provide in-person support to youth and adults in New Westminster.

A team of crisis responders are trained to help reduce distress, provide safety and support, help with referrals to other services and offer post-crisis follow-up.

Women's Safety and Outreach Program

Battered Women's Support Services Association

Provides mobile crisis support to girl and women survivors of assault and or sexual abuse in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside. Support includes crisis intervention, counselling, safety planning, information and referrals, hospital accompaniments, assistance with shelter and housing, harm reduction supplies, and advocacy.

Peer Support Program - Northern BC

Spinal Cord Injury BC

Offers in-person peer mentoring and a virtual peer group, to help people with spinal cord injuries and those with related disabilities, overcome the challenges of living with a disability. Peer events, weekly and monthly coffee groups are also available in some communities.

Peer Support Program - Vancouver Island

Spinal Cord Injury BC

Offers in-person peer mentoring and a virtual peer group, to help people with spinal cord injuries and those with related disabilities, overcome the challenges of living with a disability. Peer events, weekly and monthly coffee groups are also available in some communities.

Peer Support Program - Okanagan

Spinal Cord Injury BC

Offers in-person peer mentoring and a virtual peer group, to help people with spinal cord injuries and those with related disabilities, overcome the challenges of living with a disability. Peer events, weekly and monthly coffee groups are also available in some communities.

South Asian LGBTQ Support Services

Sher Vancouver LGBTQ Friends Society

Offers advocacy, education and counselling to LGBTQ south Asians, their friends, families and allies in the Greater Vancouver area. Services include outreach, volunteer opportunities, information and referral services.

Peer support includes groups for queer south Asian youth and friends; social group for south Asian lesbian, bisexual and trans women; and a group for queer south Asian men and friends.

Youth Counselling and Family Support

Day One Treatment Society

Provides counselling to young people between 12 - 25 years of age through the Youth Addictions Outreach Worker. Includes screening, assessment, ongoing treatment counselling and/or referrals to detox, and residential treatment resources. Additional services provided to the community include parent support, interactive school presentations and rapid response to school based incidents involving alcohol and other drugs and community consultations. Serves the Kamloops and Merritt communities.

Saferide

Vancouver Recovery Club

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.

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