Mindful Awareness and Resilience Skills for Adolescents
Offers a training program to teach youth mindfulness skills to help cope with mental health issues including depressive and anxiety symptoms, chronic pain and chronic stress. Sessions are currently offered using videoconference in a safe and respectful group environment.
4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC
Adolescent Health and Medicine
Provides assessment, clinical services, education and training to youth with complex health issues that are affecting their relationship with peers, school and or family life. Youth are helped to move towards a healthy adulthood through setting goals, finding resources, and better health and wellbeing.
Topic areas include friendships, sexuality, home life, drugs, mood and worries, sleep, eating, health conditions, school, and social challenges.
4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC
Autism Assessment
Provides diagnostic assessment for children and youth who may have autism spectrum disorder. The assessment includes a detailed parent interview and interactive observation session that uses toys and games appropriate to the child's age or level of development.
The program at Sunny Hill Health Centre also receives complex, tertiary level referrals through regional service teams throughout the province.
4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC
Heartwood Centre For Women
Offers a residential treatment program for women and transgendered women with substance dependence, mental health concerns, and primary health-care needs. Treatment may include counselling, skill development, wellness, nutrition groups, chronic pain management, and group programs to address trauma, substance dependency, mental and physical health issues.
4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC
Provincial Youth and Young Adult Substance Use Treatment Program
Provides specialized addiction treatment in a supported home-like setting for youth and young adults in BC who need help with severe substance use. Once accepted into the program, youth will go through withdrawal management and detox before beginning treatment; stabilization services are not provided.
Treatment includes group, individual and family therapy as well as life-skills training, therapeutic recreational activities, and access to Indigenous Elders, recreation workers, teachers, and doctors.
4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC
Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre - Dala Program
Provides residential treatment, assessment and intervention for fragile youth with symptoms like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia or other thought disorders. The program helps teens with improving their mental health, developing social and family support networks, and with learning life skills necessary to enhance their quality of life.
2721 Lougheed Highway, Coquitlam, BC
Autism Funding
Provides funding for eligible autism intervention services and therapies for children and youth. The funding helps families with the cost of purchasing autism intervention services to promote child's communication, social-emotional, academic, and functional life skills development.
Child Protection Services
Provides child protection services for children and youth in BC. Social workers investigate reports of child abuse or neglect, provide or arrange support services for families, supervise a child's care in the home, and protect children through removal from the family and placement with relatives, a foster family or specialized residential resources.
To report a concern about a child being abused or neglected, call the toll free number or Helpline for Children, both available 24-hour, 7 days a week.
Helpline For Children
Provides a helpline for children and youth who feel scared, confused or unsafe or who are experiencing abuse at home, at school or in the community, and would like to talk with someone. The phone line is available day and night and you do not have to give your name.
Anyone concerned about the safety of a child or youth who they suspect is being abused or neglected, can call child protection services to report their concerns.
Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre - Crossroads Care Program
Offers specialized services for youth at the centre who are having problems getting the care they need in the community. Services include individualized treatment plans, family meetings and or therapy, home visits, and care plans to help guide their care and treatment in their home community after discharge.
2721 Lougheed Highway, Coquitlam, BC