Therapeutic Counselling
Offers therapeutic counselling and life-skills support services to youth who are experiencing anxiety, depression, and substance use issues resulting from childhood trauma and abuse. Family counselling is also available.
Young Carers Program
Provides support and education to young caregivers who providing significant care to a family member. The need for care may include supporting a family member with physical or mental illness, disability, addiction or other difficulties such as financial issues or divorce.
Services include individual support and counselling, workshops, family counselling, First Nations family support, advocacy, and referrals to other service providers.
Caregiver Support
Offers one-on-one support, groups support, counselling, information and education to support those who are in a caregiving role to an adult family member or friend. Support is available in person or over the phone.
Borderline Personality Disorder Support Groups
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.
Homeless Outreach and Advocacy
Offers outreach services in the Tri-city area to adults who are homeless and or are at risk of being homeless. Services include referrals to mental health and addiction resources and programs, short-term rental subsidy for qualified individuals, and referrals to other community supports as needed.
Crisis Response, Community Led - North and West Vancouver
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.
All Nations Youth Safe House
Provides a safe, supportive and non-judgmental home environment for at-risk youth of all nations to achieve healthy self-determined goals while encouraging positive family and community connections. Key workers assigned to each resident provides individual consultation, additions and life counselling and networking opportunities to prevent further at risk behaviour.
Depression and Anxiety Support
Offers individual and group counselling, stress management seminars, and workshops to help individuals, parents and couples heal from depression and anxiety. The centre promotes a holistic model of healing that addresses the whole person - body, mind, and spirit. Support groups are available in-person or online.
Homicide Grief Support Groups
Offers group support in a safe, non-judgmental environment to families and friends of individuals who have survived the loss of a loved one by homicide. Groups meet once a week for eight weeks.
Participants come together to support each other, listen to others who have experienced a similar loss, and as well learn grief and mourning tools to help in their daily lives.
Prostate Cancer Information and Support
Provides group support, information and resources on prostate and other male health-related problems. Support includes newsletters, books, brochures as well as individual support, monthly group meetings and public awareness presentations.