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Y Mind Youth

YMCA BC

Offers a free support group for young adults who experience anxiety. Participants learn healthy coping skills, connect with other young people in the community, and get support all in a safe and friendly environment. Programming is supervised by trained mental health professionals.

The program includes take-home resources to help manage anxiety in between weekly meetings, and a 14 week YMCA gym membership to encourage youth to manage their anxiety through physical activity.

Aboriginal Youth Safehouse

Urban Native Youth Association

Provides short-term emergency shelter for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal youth without a place to sleep. Offers resources to help young people make positive changes in their lives including one to one support, information and referral, advocacy, as well as access to a computer, telephone, bus tickets, clothes, and support from other UNYA programs. Funded by the Ministry of Children and Family Development.

Young Bears Lodge

Urban Native Youth Association

Provides a 16 week, live-in, culturally-based empowerment program with an alcohol and drug recovery focus. Co-ed services for Aboriginal youth who voluntarily seek assistance to overcome substance abuse and/or misuse is available. The work is founded on the belief that culture is therapy and youth are the experts in their own lives. Services are designed to help focus on the changes individual wants to make and to support them through the process of making those changes. To that end, the Lodge will provide the client with a safe and respectful environment with supportive staff who will provide with all of the encouragement and resources needed to help make the changes that are important. The Lodge is a 5-bed facility located in a large house within a residential community in South Vancouver.

Healthy Choices Program

Whistler Community Services Society

Provides school and community-based youth, staff and families in the Sea-to-Sky corridor with prevention-based educational programming. Sessions are age-appropriate and include topics such as mental health and wellness, substance use, self-harm and suicide, nutrition, gender and sexuality, sleep hygiene, and healthy relationships.

Counselling and Support Groups

Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre Society

Provides individual and group counselling to women, trans, non-binary, two-spirit, and gender diverse people who have experienced sexualized violence. Counsellors help support survivors to cope with the impacts of violence ranging from anger and grief to issues including sexuality, intimacy and trust.

Counselling may include safety planning, support circles, sexual assault counselling, art therapy, inclusion support, and counselling for Indigenous survivors rooted in Indigenous healing practices and traditions.

Indigenous Support Programs

Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre Society

Provides telephone, one-to-one, group and family counselling for self-identified family members of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). The program also offers traditional healing ceremonies, and is inclusive of all genders, races, and age groups.

Victim Services

Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre Society

Provides justice-related information and advocacy, post-assault health care support, and practical assistance to victims or witness of crime, trauma and or physical or sexual assault. Services include crisis counselling, referrals to community services, safety planning, and accompaniment to police and court appearances.

S.T.A.R. Program for Kids

Watari Research Association

Provides education and information around choices, drugs and responsibility to elementary-aged school children in Vancouver. Youth are active participants in the sessions with the curriculum delivered through fun and engaging activities. Topics include alcohol and drug basics, healthier choices, myth busting, conflict and tricky situations, values, and creating options.

Chimo Crisis Line - Richmond

Chimo Community Services

Provides free, confidential emotional support and information to individuals in distress, crisis or who need someone to talk with. Professional volunteers are available by telephone or online chat.

Transition House

Westcoast Community Resources Society

Provides emergency shelter for women and children in crisis from abusive situations. The transition house is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A child and youth support worker is also available. Offers crisis support, women's and children's counselling, family support, community outreach, advocacy, and transportation for women and their children residing at the transition house. Toll free number operates as crisis line and intake point for transition home.

Showing 241 - 250 of 534 Resources

Y Mind Youth

YMCA BC

Offers a free support group for young adults who experience anxiety. Participants learn healthy coping skills, connect with other young people in the community, and get support all in a safe and friendly environment. Programming is supervised by trained mental health professionals.

The program includes take-home resources to help manage anxiety in between weekly meetings, and a 14 week YMCA gym membership to encourage youth to manage their anxiety through physical activity.

Aboriginal Youth Safehouse

Urban Native Youth Association

Provides short-term emergency shelter for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal youth without a place to sleep. Offers resources to help young people make positive changes in their lives including one to one support, information and referral, advocacy, as well as access to a computer, telephone, bus tickets, clothes, and support from other UNYA programs. Funded by the Ministry of Children and Family Development.

Young Bears Lodge

Urban Native Youth Association

Provides a 16 week, live-in, culturally-based empowerment program with an alcohol and drug recovery focus. Co-ed services for Aboriginal youth who voluntarily seek assistance to overcome substance abuse and/or misuse is available. The work is founded on the belief that culture is therapy and youth are the experts in their own lives. Services are designed to help focus on the changes individual wants to make and to support them through the process of making those changes. To that end, the Lodge will provide the client with a safe and respectful environment with supportive staff who will provide with all of the encouragement and resources needed to help make the changes that are important. The Lodge is a 5-bed facility located in a large house within a residential community in South Vancouver.

Healthy Choices Program

Whistler Community Services Society

Provides school and community-based youth, staff and families in the Sea-to-Sky corridor with prevention-based educational programming. Sessions are age-appropriate and include topics such as mental health and wellness, substance use, self-harm and suicide, nutrition, gender and sexuality, sleep hygiene, and healthy relationships.

Counselling and Support Groups

Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre Society

Provides individual and group counselling to women, trans, non-binary, two-spirit, and gender diverse people who have experienced sexualized violence. Counsellors help support survivors to cope with the impacts of violence ranging from anger and grief to issues including sexuality, intimacy and trust.

Counselling may include safety planning, support circles, sexual assault counselling, art therapy, inclusion support, and counselling for Indigenous survivors rooted in Indigenous healing practices and traditions.

Indigenous Support Programs

Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre Society

Provides telephone, one-to-one, group and family counselling for self-identified family members of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). The program also offers traditional healing ceremonies, and is inclusive of all genders, races, and age groups.

Victim Services

Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre Society

Provides justice-related information and advocacy, post-assault health care support, and practical assistance to victims or witness of crime, trauma and or physical or sexual assault. Services include crisis counselling, referrals to community services, safety planning, and accompaniment to police and court appearances.

S.T.A.R. Program for Kids

Watari Research Association

Provides education and information around choices, drugs and responsibility to elementary-aged school children in Vancouver. Youth are active participants in the sessions with the curriculum delivered through fun and engaging activities. Topics include alcohol and drug basics, healthier choices, myth busting, conflict and tricky situations, values, and creating options.

Chimo Crisis Line - Richmond

Chimo Community Services

Provides free, confidential emotional support and information to individuals in distress, crisis or who need someone to talk with. Professional volunteers are available by telephone or online chat.

Transition House

Westcoast Community Resources Society

Provides emergency shelter for women and children in crisis from abusive situations. The transition house is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A child and youth support worker is also available. Offers crisis support, women's and children's counselling, family support, community outreach, advocacy, and transportation for women and their children residing at the transition house. Toll free number operates as crisis line and intake point for transition home.

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