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Young Bears Lodge

Urban Native Youth Association

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

Urban Native Youth Association

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

Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre

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

Canadian Mental Health Association - Vancouver Fraser Branch

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

Cedar Strong Prevention and Intervention Society

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.

School Based Outreach Program

North Okanagan Youth and Family Services Society

Provides counselling for students and families experiencing stress at home (such as addictions, grief, mental health), that affect the student's ability to manage at school. Families are referred by the school and services are offered in the school and family home.

Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment

Central Okanagan Emergency Shelter Society

Provides free, confidential counselling for children and youth who have witnessed and or experienced abuse, threats, violence in the home, or other relationship violence.

Counsellors' help children to label and express feelings they have experienced as result of abuse witnessed and or experienced, as well as teach them healthy ways to communicate, problem-solve and cope.

Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment

Elkford Women's Task Force Society

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.

Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment

Shuswap Area Family Emergency Society

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 offers safety skills and strategies, and supports children to understand they are not at fault for abusive action of others. Children learn about violence and abuse issues through education, art, and play activities suitable to their age.

Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment

Phoenix Transition Society

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, and school-based educational activities designed to prevent violence.

Showing 221 - 230 of 528 Resources

Young Bears Lodge

Urban Native Youth Association

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

Urban Native Youth Association

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

Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre

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

Canadian Mental Health Association - Vancouver Fraser Branch

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

Cedar Strong Prevention and Intervention Society

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.

School Based Outreach Program

North Okanagan Youth and Family Services Society

Provides counselling for students and families experiencing stress at home (such as addictions, grief, mental health), that affect the student's ability to manage at school. Families are referred by the school and services are offered in the school and family home.

Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment

Central Okanagan Emergency Shelter Society

Provides free, confidential counselling for children and youth who have witnessed and or experienced abuse, threats, violence in the home, or other relationship violence.

Counsellors' help children to label and express feelings they have experienced as result of abuse witnessed and or experienced, as well as teach them healthy ways to communicate, problem-solve and cope.

Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment

Elkford Women's Task Force Society

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.

Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment

Shuswap Area Family Emergency Society

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 offers safety skills and strategies, and supports children to understand they are not at fault for abusive action of others. Children learn about violence and abuse issues through education, art, and play activities suitable to their age.

Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment

Phoenix Transition Society

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, and school-based educational activities designed to prevent violence.

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