Youth Home Stabilization Program
Provides support to youth and their caregivers with managed substance use withdrawal and follow-up in a home environment. The program works with young people who are using substances and want to stop or significantly reduce the use of at least one substance.
Services include support through withdrawal, short-term family counselling and or mediation, home visits, cultural and spiritual supports, long-term treatment referrals, and harm reduction supplies. Access to opiate agonist therapy and primary care services are also available.
Detox Referral Line - Access Central
Provides a detox and addiction housing referral line. Adults who require detoxification receive immediate screening by health care workers, who set up appointment times with the provider that most suits a client's needs.
Also provides housing information, screening, referral, and placement services for adult men and women who are dealing with substance use issues.
Dual Diagnosis Support Groups
Provides an online listing of support groups for men and women who need support with their dual diagnosis; an emotional or psychiatric illness and chemical dependency. Twelve Steps of recovery and Twelve Traditions are used for knowledge and wisdom. See website for available groups in your area.
Mobile Health Outreach
Provides outreach harm reduction services to the Cowichan Lake, Duncan, Ladysmith, Nanaimo and Parksville areas. Services include harm reduction supplies, HIV testing, safer sex and drug use supplies, referral, overdose prevention, and health information.
Mobile Overdose Prevention Service
Offers mobile street outreach and harm reduction supplies to individuals in Dawson Creek. A mobile vehicle travels to different areas of the city and provides basic nursing services and supports, supervised injection and safer drug injection supplies, naloxone and naloxone training, needle exchange, safer sex supplies, harm reduction education, and referrals to other substance use services.
Health Connections - Tumbler Ridge
Provides low-cost transportation options for rural residents who must travel for non-emergency, physician-referred medical care outside their home communities. Service area includes Tumbler Ridge to Chetwynd, Dawson Creek, Fort St. John and Grande Prairie.
Health Connections
Provides low-cost transportation options for rural residents who must travel for non-emergency, physician-referred medical care outside their home communities. Advance reservations are required.
Prince George AIDS Prevention Program
Provides street outreach and harm reduction supplies to members of the community in need. Program offers needle exchange, injection drug and crack cocaine use equipment, condoms and safer-sex items, access to testing and treatment, education, and referrals to other health agencies for drug detox, treatment or counselling.
Health Connections - Haida Gwaii
Provides low-cost transportation options for rural residents who must travel for non-emergency, physician-referred medical care outside their home communities.
The bus service is provided for travel between Daajing Giids and Masset. Passengers from all communities are welcome. Advance reservations are required.
Car 60
Provides emergency response to crisis calls related to mental health situations or crisis concerns in partnership with the RCMP and the Northern Health Authority.
A plainclothes RCMP member and psychiatric nurse work together to help de-escalate situations, provide crisis intervention and connect people to community services and supports.