Francophone Services
Provides an online listing of BC health resource and services available in French, as well as information about the BC health system explained in French.
Public Housing Health Services
The service has Health Services Coordinators throughout the province that assists BC Housing tenants in public housing developments on a variety of health-related issues. The coordinators do not offer medical advice, but they can direct clients to community services for help, including referrals to mental health services, grief support after the loss of a loved one, community health care, diabetes clinics, domestic violence units, and addictions counselling.
Supportive Housing Registration Service
Provides low-income adults needing subsidized housing with on-site supports, a single point of access to register for supported housing that is funded through BC Housing. Applicants are able to register once, rather than registering with multiple housing providers.
Supportive housing provides a range of on-site, non-clinical supports, such as life-skills training, and connections to primary health care, mental health or substance use services.
Multiple Locations
Narcotics Anonymous Meetings
Provides an online listing of local support groups for men and women with addiction who wish to maintain a drug-free lifestyle. Recovering addicts meet regularly to help each other stay clean and share recovery with one another. Closed meetings are for members or for recovering addicts only, while open meetings are available to anyone interested in the program.
BC Take Home Naloxone Program
Provides an online listing of Take Home Naloxone sites in BC. Naloxone kits are available, at no cost, for people who use opioids and people who are likely to witness and respond to an overdose. Toward the Heart also provides naloxone and harm reduction information and resources.
Naloxone is a medication that reverses the effects of an overdose from opioids such as heroin, methadone, fentanyl, and morphine. See website to locate a Take Home Naloxone site near you.
Mental Health Information and Resources
Offers online resources, interactive tools and training programs aimed at increasing mental health literacy and improving mental health and well-being of Canadians. Website features include online library, webinars, newsletters and annual reports.
Provincial Opioid Addiction Treatment Support Program
Provides clinical care guidance and training programs for all health care professionals in the province who are treating opioid use disorder and are prescribing medication such as buprenorphine/naloxone, methadone, slow-release oral morphine, and injectable opioid agonist treatment.
The program also maintains a province-wide directory of opioid agonist treatment clinics accepting new patients, and makes recommendations to Health Canada regarding health professionals wishing to obtain authorization to prescribe methadone for opioid addiction.
Travel Assistance Program
Provides assistance with some of the transportation costs for eligible BC residents who must travel within the province for non-emergency, physician-referred specialist medical care not available in their own community.
The program is coordinated by the Ministry of Health and the transportation partners who agree to waive or discount their regular fees. The program does not provide direct financial assistance to patients for travel costs.
BC Ambulance Service
Provides public ambulance service for emergencies, medical transportation, and out-of-hospital and inter-facility patient transfers, throughout BC. Transportation is also available for pediatric, neonatal and high-risk obstetrics patients.
Integrated Child and Youth Teams
Provides wrap-around mental health and substance use services to children and youth. Multi-disciplinary teams may include program leaders, clinicians, counsellors, peer supports, Indigenous supports, or multicultural supports.
Teams provide services where children and youth feel safe and comfortable, within school district areas. They will deliver outreach or outbound services as well as meet in office settings. See website for regional contacts to access services.