Youth Support Line - Northern BC
Provides free, confidential, 24-hour phone support for youth who may be facing some kind of difficulty in their lives.
Crisis workers offer non-judgmental support; listening and helping callers make their own decisions, and as well providing information for community resources such as social services, self-help and support groups, and emergency services.
Young Bears Lodge
Provides a 16 week, live-in, culturally-based empowerment program with an alcohol and drug recovery focus. Co-ed services for Aboriginal youth who voluntarily seek assistance to overcome substance abuse and/or misuse is available. The work is founded on the belief that culture is therapy and youth are the experts in their own lives. Services are designed to help focus on the changes individual wants to make and to support them through the process of making those changes. To that end, the Lodge will provide the client with a safe and respectful environment with supportive staff who will provide with all of the encouragement and resources needed to help make the changes that are important. The Lodge is a 5-bed facility located in a large house within a residential community in South Vancouver.
Aboriginal Youth Safehouse
Provides short-term emergency shelter for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal youth without a place to sleep. Offers resources to help young people make positive changes in their lives including one to one support, information and referral, advocacy, as well as access to a computer, telephone, bus tickets, clothes, and support from other UNYA programs. Funded by the Ministry of Children and Family Development.
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.
Here4Peers
Offers a mental health awareness program to high school students in the Delta school district. The program provides students with effective tools and healthy coping strategies for dealing with stress, and provides accurate information on accessing help for themselves, their peers or loved ones.
School-based Drug and Alcohol Program
Provides school-based substance use prevention and intervention services to support school personnel, youth and their families. The program includes youth support groups, classroom presentations, family education and support, help with developing school health policies or initiatives, and referrals for further support.
Intensive Case Management Team
Offers a variety of client-centered services to individuals who are at risk due to substance misuse, with or without mental health issues, with a focus on the homeless or those at risk of becoming homeless. The team works with clients where they are at physically - on the street, in shelters, or in their homes.
Services include housing support, substance use counselling and access to treatment, rent supplements, medical care assessment, life skills support and skill building, medication management, and referrals to community resources and income services.
Harm Reduction
Provides street outreach and harm reduction supplies to members of the community who use drugs and or who engage in sex work. The teams also provide information regarding overdose prevention and response, safe drug using, recent drug and sex work alerts, and referrals to other supports in the community such as housing and substance use treatment.
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.
Powell Place Emergency Shelter for Women
Provides short-term emergency shelter to women in crisis living with the challenges of violence, abuse, poverty, mental illness and addiction.
Services include crisis intervention, 24-hour on-site staff support, meals, laundry services, housing assistance, harm reduction supplies, individual counselling, accompaniment to appointments, referrals and advocacy.