Surrey Street Youth Services
Provides a telephone referral service for youth who are without a safe place to go and at considerable risk on the streets. Youth-specific information and referrals include counselling, health and education options, youth shelters, mental health and substance use services, and income assistance programs.
Mobile Harm Reduction Outreach
Provides harm reduction supplies including clean needles to groups, individuals and organizations throughout Langley, Aldergrove, Delta and White Rock. Outreach services also are provided through the Rig Riders peer-based mobile bike team in Surrey and Langley.
Outreach workers take the opportunity to teach clients safer harm reduction practices, overdose prevention, as well as provide referrals to health and substance use services and other social supports.
Crisis Response, Community Led - Victoria
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 in Victoria and surrounding areas.
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.
Crisis Response, Community Led - Comox Valley
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 in the Comox Valley and surrounding areas.
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.
Needle Clean-up Hotline
Offers a telephone hotline for the community to report, or coordinate the clean-up, of discarded needles and syringes in public places anywhere in Kamloops.
Substance Use Information and Referral
Provides resources for youth, adults, and caregivers dealing with difficulties from their own or someone else's substance use. Resources include substance use information, an online video library, web links, and self-assessments.
Also provides referral information on approved residential treatment and detox facilities, school based educational programs, community education, outreach, and harm reduction programs.
Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment
Provides free, confidential counselling for children and youth who have witnessed and or experienced abuse, threats, violence in the home, or other relationship violence.
The program provides group and individual counselling for children, youth and caregivers, as well as community presentations designed to prevent violence.
Smithers and District Transit
Provides low-cost transportation options for residents of Smithers and Telkwa who must travel for non-emergency, physician-referred medical care outside their home communities.
Outreach Support Worker
Provides in-home support and counselling for families and their children to enhance parenting and behaviour management skills, increase healthy births, and support child development.
Y Mind Teen
Offers a free support group for young adults who experience anxiety. Participants learn healthy coping skills, connect with other young people in the community, and get support all in a safe and friendly environment. Programming is supervised by trained mental health professionals.
The program includes take-home resources to help manage anxiety in between weekly meetings, and a 14 week YMCA gym membership to encourage youth to manage their anxiety through physical activity.