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Interior Crisis Line Network

Canadian Mental Health Association - Vernon Branch

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. A trained staff member or volunteer is available to listen, answer questions, and provide information and support in an anonymous and confidential manner.

Fraser Health Crisis Line

OPTIONS Community Services Society

Provides 24-hour, free and confidential emotional support, crisis intervention and community resource information to individuals in need.

Callers are invited to discuss the causes of their distress and explore possible options with the intent to increase coping ability. Outreach may be performed in cases where individuals may harm themselves, an individual threatens to harm another person, or a third party reports that another person may cause self-harm. Serves the Fraser Health Region.

Mobile Needle Exchange

PHS Community Services Society

Provides clean needles and harm reduction supplies to people in the community to help reduce the spread of HIV, HCV and other illnesses. The program also promotes safer drug-use habits through referrals to health care, detox, treatment and other community services.

Services include picking up used needles from housing projects, emptying the city needle boxes in the Downtown Eastside, and collecting discarded needles from streets, alleys, and parks. A hotline is also available for delivery of harm reduction materials to anyone within the Vancouver city limits.

Spikes on Bikes

PHS Community Services Society

Provides harm reduction outreach by a two-person bicycle team that serves both the West End and Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The program provides needle recovery, overdose response, naloxone kits, overdose response training, and harm reduction supplies.

Community Information and Volunteer Centre

Kelowna Community Resources

Provides community information about organizations, government programs, health services through an area-wide online database of community resources, by email, phone, or walk-in inquiry, in addition to information on volunteering in the Central Okanagan.

Publications include: Directory of Community Services; Children and Youth Special Needs Resource Guide; Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health & Substance Use Resource Guide for Professionals and Service Providers; Mental Health Resources for Children and Youth; Healthy Aging Seniors Resource and Support Guide; and Suicide Prevention Handbook.

Crisis Line - Kelowna South Okanagan

Kelowna Community Resources

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. Trained volunteers provide emotional support, resources, referrals and crisis intervention. Crisis Line workers may refer callers to appropriate community or professional resources and if needed may intervene in life-threatening or emergency situations.

24-Hour Crisis Line - Northern BC

Crisis Prevention, Intervention and Information Centre for Northern BC

Provides free, confidential, 24-hour emotional support, suicide intervention and referral information to residents of Northern BC.

Kootenay Boundary Regional Crisis Line

Trail Family and Individual Resource Centre Society

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. A trained staff member or volunteer is available to listen, provide information, and support in an anonymous and confidential manner.

Program offers: suicide intervention, information about available services, and non-judgmental support during challenging times. Also takes gatekeeper calls regarding elder abuse and neglect.

Crisis Line - Williams Lake and Area

Canadian Mental Health Association - Cariboo Chilcotin Branch

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. A trained staff member or volunteer is available to listen, provide information, and support in an anonymous and confidential manner. Program offers: suicide intervention, information about available services, and non-judgmental support during challenging times.

School-Based Mental Health Outreach Program

South Cariboo Elizabeth Fry Society

Provides counselling programs for students and families experiencing stress at home, such as addictions, grief, mental health, stress, and anxiety, which affect the student's ability to manage at school. Families are referred by the school and services are offered in the school and or family home.

Showing 291 - 300 of 529 Resources

Interior Crisis Line Network

Canadian Mental Health Association - Vernon Branch

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. A trained staff member or volunteer is available to listen, answer questions, and provide information and support in an anonymous and confidential manner.

Fraser Health Crisis Line

OPTIONS Community Services Society

Provides 24-hour, free and confidential emotional support, crisis intervention and community resource information to individuals in need.

Callers are invited to discuss the causes of their distress and explore possible options with the intent to increase coping ability. Outreach may be performed in cases where individuals may harm themselves, an individual threatens to harm another person, or a third party reports that another person may cause self-harm. Serves the Fraser Health Region.

Mobile Needle Exchange

PHS Community Services Society

Provides clean needles and harm reduction supplies to people in the community to help reduce the spread of HIV, HCV and other illnesses. The program also promotes safer drug-use habits through referrals to health care, detox, treatment and other community services.

Services include picking up used needles from housing projects, emptying the city needle boxes in the Downtown Eastside, and collecting discarded needles from streets, alleys, and parks. A hotline is also available for delivery of harm reduction materials to anyone within the Vancouver city limits.

Spikes on Bikes

PHS Community Services Society

Provides harm reduction outreach by a two-person bicycle team that serves both the West End and Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The program provides needle recovery, overdose response, naloxone kits, overdose response training, and harm reduction supplies.

Community Information and Volunteer Centre

Kelowna Community Resources

Provides community information about organizations, government programs, health services through an area-wide online database of community resources, by email, phone, or walk-in inquiry, in addition to information on volunteering in the Central Okanagan.

Publications include: Directory of Community Services; Children and Youth Special Needs Resource Guide; Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health & Substance Use Resource Guide for Professionals and Service Providers; Mental Health Resources for Children and Youth; Healthy Aging Seniors Resource and Support Guide; and Suicide Prevention Handbook.

Crisis Line - Kelowna South Okanagan

Kelowna Community Resources

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. Trained volunteers provide emotional support, resources, referrals and crisis intervention. Crisis Line workers may refer callers to appropriate community or professional resources and if needed may intervene in life-threatening or emergency situations.

24-Hour Crisis Line - Northern BC

Crisis Prevention, Intervention and Information Centre for Northern BC

Provides free, confidential, 24-hour emotional support, suicide intervention and referral information to residents of Northern BC.

Kootenay Boundary Regional Crisis Line

Trail Family and Individual Resource Centre Society

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. A trained staff member or volunteer is available to listen, provide information, and support in an anonymous and confidential manner.

Program offers: suicide intervention, information about available services, and non-judgmental support during challenging times. Also takes gatekeeper calls regarding elder abuse and neglect.

Crisis Line - Williams Lake and Area

Canadian Mental Health Association - Cariboo Chilcotin Branch

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. A trained staff member or volunteer is available to listen, provide information, and support in an anonymous and confidential manner. Program offers: suicide intervention, information about available services, and non-judgmental support during challenging times.

School-Based Mental Health Outreach Program

South Cariboo Elizabeth Fry Society

Provides counselling programs for students and families experiencing stress at home, such as addictions, grief, mental health, stress, and anxiety, which affect the student's ability to manage at school. Families are referred by the school and services are offered in the school and or family home.

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