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Aimee Beaulieu Transition House

Nelson Community Services Society

Offers emergency shelter and support services for abused women and their children who are at risk of violence or have experienced violence. The transition house provides safe, supportive accommodation where women can review options and make decisions.

Staff are available to provide emotional support, information and supports for decision making, referrals, safety plans, and links to affordable housing, even if a woman is not yet prepared to or needing to stay at the transition house.

School Based Outreach Program

North Okanagan Youth and Family Services Society

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

Family Support Program

Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs

Provides in-home family support services and counselling to high need, high-risk families whose children may be at risk of being placed in the care of the Ministry of Children and Families Development.

Residential Treatment Program

Stepping Stones Recovery House for Women Society

Provides a faith-based residential treatment program to help women recover from drug and alcohol addiction. A holistic approach is used to address physical, spiritual, emotional and social needs. The program includes group therapy, life coaching, fitness activities, and support groups.

Transitional Housing and Recovery Program

Stepping Stones Recovery House for Women Society

Provides second-stage transitional housing for women who have completed a substance use treatment program and need support with transitioning to a drug and alcohol-free lifestyle. The program includes group therapy, twelve-step programs, life coaching, and community volunteer work.

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.

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.

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.

Community and Medical Bus

Arrow and Slocan Lakes Community Services

Provides low-cost transportation for individuals in Nakusp area who must travel for non-emergency medical care in Vernon and Kelowna. Service may be provided to individuals without medical appointments based on seat availability. Advance reservations are required.

Showing 261 - 270 of 533 Resources

Aimee Beaulieu Transition House

Nelson Community Services Society

Offers emergency shelter and support services for abused women and their children who are at risk of violence or have experienced violence. The transition house provides safe, supportive accommodation where women can review options and make decisions.

Staff are available to provide emotional support, information and supports for decision making, referrals, safety plans, and links to affordable housing, even if a woman is not yet prepared to or needing to stay at the transition house.

School Based Outreach Program

North Okanagan Youth and Family Services Society

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

Family Support Program

Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs

Provides in-home family support services and counselling to high need, high-risk families whose children may be at risk of being placed in the care of the Ministry of Children and Families Development.

Residential Treatment Program

Stepping Stones Recovery House for Women Society

Provides a faith-based residential treatment program to help women recover from drug and alcohol addiction. A holistic approach is used to address physical, spiritual, emotional and social needs. The program includes group therapy, life coaching, fitness activities, and support groups.

Transitional Housing and Recovery Program

Stepping Stones Recovery House for Women Society

Provides second-stage transitional housing for women who have completed a substance use treatment program and need support with transitioning to a drug and alcohol-free lifestyle. The program includes group therapy, twelve-step programs, life coaching, and community volunteer work.

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.

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.

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.

Community and Medical Bus

Arrow and Slocan Lakes Community Services

Provides low-cost transportation for individuals in Nakusp area who must travel for non-emergency medical care in Vernon and Kelowna. Service may be provided to individuals without medical appointments based on seat availability. Advance reservations are required.

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