Peer Education Workshops
Provides peer-led workshops, presentations and training to youth on sexual health and harm reduction topics. Offered to youth communities throughout BC, the program aims to increase the skills of young people with preventing, passing and getting HIV, Hep C, and other sexually transmitted infections. Workshops are facilitated by youth, for youth, and can be customized to meet the needs and learning goals of the group.
Youth Health and Engagement
Offers a web-based resource and information centre designed to encourage individual youth wellness, and foster engagement in youth health policy and program availability in BC. Website includes access to Youth Advisory & Action Council, workshops, research and consultation and youth engagement resources.
Kids and Teens in Control
Offers online group support and education to children and youth who have a loved one with mental illness or substance use disorder. Participants share their experiences, ways to cope, self-care techniques, and learn about mental illness and skills to communicate with loved one.
Bed-Based Treatment and Recovery Services Listings (BCCSU)
Find treatment and supportive recovery services that are live-in or bed-based in a community near you.
Battered Women's Crisis Line
Provides telephone-based crisis support and victim services to women dealing with violence and or the effects of abuse, childhood sexual abuse, and adult sexual assault.
Callers receive emotional support, coping strategies, safety planning, community resource information, and referrals to transition houses, medical services, and lawyers. Specialized support for immigrant and aboriginal women is also available.
Community Helpline
Provides culturally-safe phone support in multiple languages to individuals and families in BC experiencing crisis or distress. Trained volunteers and staff provide non-judgmental emotional support, information and referrals. Case management services are also available.
Parent Support Network
Offers an online community where parents can connect with other families that have children with arthritis and other rheumatic diseases. The community is a safe place to ask questions, share experiences, celebrate successes, and talk with other families who understand.
The program includes information and referral, a monthly newsletter and access to an online library of information and resources.
100-33 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC
We Are Indigenous: Big Worries/Fears, Parent & Caregiver Support Program
Offers a free, virtual parent and caregiver coaching program to support First Nations, Métis and Inuit families across BC, whose children are struggling with the experience of big worries and fears, or what the Western worldview calls anxiety.
The program is guided by traditional knowledge from Indigenous communities and includes short online videos and scheduled telephone coaching sessions to provide families with tools to discuss what they are already doing, and to learn new practices and how to use these practices with their children.
Counselling Services
Provides low-cost individual, couple and family counselling by registered clinical counsellors or Masters level intern-counsellors training to become registered clinical counsellors. Topic areas include anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, work-related concerns, conflict resolution, relationship and parenting concerns. Services available in-person or virtual sessions including telephone and video.
440-2184 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC
Healing Hearts Grief Support Groups
Provides an online listing of support groups in BC for families who have lost a loved one to substance use harms and overdose. Participants share their experiences, ways to cope, or just gather strength and comfort from being together with others who understand.