BC Disaster Stress
Provides resources to support BC communities with the stress and mental health concerns resulting from wildfires, floods and other natural disasters.
Resources include community talk events, telephone support, web links, mental health information, and tools to help manage stress, overcome challenges and feel better.
310 Mental Health Support
Provides a toll-free number connecting callers to a BC crisis line. Offers emotional support, information on appropriate referral options, and a wide range of support relating to mental health concerns.
Find a Community Response Network
Provides an online listing of community teams throughout BC that are dedicated to prevent abuse, neglect, and self-neglect of adults through education, advocacy, resources, outreach, and support planning.
Suicide Grief Support
Offers a support group for individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide. Trained facilitators provide a safe, non-judgemental, compassionate environment where participants can share experiences, learn grief and mourning tools, and receive community connections, practical information and support. Provided in partnership with the BC Crisis Centre.
Vision Mate
Provides one-to-one peer support to a person who is blind or partially sighted. Clients are matched with someone living in their community who has sight loss, for one or two hours a week, in the person's home or in the community.
Activities may include help with errands or with an outing or visit, reading, organizing around the home, and going for walk.
Community Outreach and Awareness
Provides information and referral, advocacy, community networking, mentorship, and public awareness to help those with vision loss in BC. Local chapters may also offer recreational and social activities, community education, and special events.
Mental Health and Addiction Resources
Offers online information, resources and publications on a variety of mental health and addiction topics. Topic areas include: mental health in the workplace; managing depression; coping with suicidal thoughts; and women living with depression during pregnancy and after delivery.
Health Coach Program
Offers free, telephone-based coaching to support people living with chronic conditions to become better self-managers. Health coaches and participants are paired based on gender, age and or shared chronic health conditions.
Participants are supported with setting goals and actions to better manage their health, being motivated to start and maintain health-behaviour changes, and becoming more self-confident.
Eating Disorder Peer Support Group
Offers a weekly peer support group for adults with an eating disorder or who struggle with food, exercise or body image that affects their quality of life or interferes with day-to-day living.
Peer facilitators are not counsellors but individuals who are in various places of recovery themselves. The group currently meets virtually by zoom only; see website how to join a meeting.
Peer-to-Peer Community
Offers a variety of online support forums where youth can anonymously share their personal experiences, offer inspiration and ask questions to connect, comfort and support each other. Links to wellness resources and other mental health online services are also available.