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Mobile Harm Reduction and Prevention Program

Pacific Community Resources Society

Offers mobile outreach to individuals who are experiencing homeless or at-risk populations from Chilliwack to Boston Bar. A mobile vehicle travels to different communities to provide harm reduction supplies, fentanyl test strips, safer sex supplies, sexually transmitted infection testing, and collection of needles and syringes.

Staff with lived experience also connects people to services such as housing, income assistance, mental health and other community resources.

Mental Health and Wellness

Peer2Peer Indigenous Society

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.

Crisis Response, Community Led - Prince George

Prince George Native Friendship Centre

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 Prince George.

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.

Peer Support Program

Richmond Mental Health Consumer and Friends Society

Offers peer-to-peer support to adults recovering from an on-going mental illness and in the initial stages of recovery. Services are provided in the community and at Richmond General Hospital.

Peer support workers have personal experience with mental illness and are able to offer support and encouragement, and help with reaching personal goals, more independence and confidence.

Peer Navigator Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - Vancouver Fraser Branch

Provides assistance to individuals who are not part of a mental health team and who may be newly diagnosed with a mental health concern. Peer Navigators have lived experience with mental illness, substance use problems and addictions, and understand the social and health services available in Vancouver.

Navigators assist clients with accessing services such as health and wellness, legal aid, housing, income and financial assistance, and community connections. Funded by Vancouver Coastal Health.

Crisis Response, Community Led - North and West Vancouver

Canadian Mental Health Association - North and West Vancouver Branch

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 on the North Shore.

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.

Borderline Personality Disorder Support Groups

Borderline Personality Disorder Society of BC

Offers drop-in peer support for individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), their family, friends, and partners. Participants are welcome to suggest a topic, join in, or just sit quietly and listen. A lending library of handouts, resources and books is also provided.

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.

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.

Mobile Harm Reduction Outreach

Lookout Housing and Health Society

Provides harm reduction supplies including clean needles to groups, individuals and organizations throughout Langley, Aldergrove, Delta and White Rock. Outreach services also are provided through the Rig Riders peer-based mobile bike team in Surrey and Langley.

Outreach workers take the opportunity to teach clients safer harm reduction practices, overdose prevention, as well as provide referrals to health and substance use services and other social supports.

Showing 241 - 250 of 531 Resources

Mobile Harm Reduction and Prevention Program

Pacific Community Resources Society

Offers mobile outreach to individuals who are experiencing homeless or at-risk populations from Chilliwack to Boston Bar. A mobile vehicle travels to different communities to provide harm reduction supplies, fentanyl test strips, safer sex supplies, sexually transmitted infection testing, and collection of needles and syringes.

Staff with lived experience also connects people to services such as housing, income assistance, mental health and other community resources.

Mental Health and Wellness

Peer2Peer Indigenous Society

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.

Crisis Response, Community Led - Prince George

Prince George Native Friendship Centre

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 Prince George.

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.

Peer Support Program

Richmond Mental Health Consumer and Friends Society

Offers peer-to-peer support to adults recovering from an on-going mental illness and in the initial stages of recovery. Services are provided in the community and at Richmond General Hospital.

Peer support workers have personal experience with mental illness and are able to offer support and encouragement, and help with reaching personal goals, more independence and confidence.

Peer Navigator Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - Vancouver Fraser Branch

Provides assistance to individuals who are not part of a mental health team and who may be newly diagnosed with a mental health concern. Peer Navigators have lived experience with mental illness, substance use problems and addictions, and understand the social and health services available in Vancouver.

Navigators assist clients with accessing services such as health and wellness, legal aid, housing, income and financial assistance, and community connections. Funded by Vancouver Coastal Health.

Crisis Response, Community Led - North and West Vancouver

Canadian Mental Health Association - North and West Vancouver Branch

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 on the North Shore.

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.

Borderline Personality Disorder Support Groups

Borderline Personality Disorder Society of BC

Offers drop-in peer support for individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), their family, friends, and partners. Participants are welcome to suggest a topic, join in, or just sit quietly and listen. A lending library of handouts, resources and books is also provided.

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.

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.

Mobile Harm Reduction Outreach

Lookout Housing and Health Society

Provides harm reduction supplies including clean needles to groups, individuals and organizations throughout Langley, Aldergrove, Delta and White Rock. Outreach services also are provided through the Rig Riders peer-based mobile bike team in Surrey and Langley.

Outreach workers take the opportunity to teach clients safer harm reduction practices, overdose prevention, as well as provide referrals to health and substance use services and other social supports.

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