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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.

Victim Services

Shuswap Area Family Emergency Society

Provides justice-related information and referrals, emotional support and practical assistance to victims or witness of crime, criminal harassment, trauma, and or physical or sexual assault.

Services include safety planning, referrals to community services, and accompaniment to police and court appearances. Police-based crisis intervention, support and education is also available in the community by the local RCMP detachment.

Mobile Outreach

South Okanagan Women in Need Society

Provides drug checking, harm reduction supplies and education, Naloxone, snacks and water, hygiene items, and community resources information to individuals in Penticton, Oliver, Osoyoos, Summerland and surrounding areas.

Medical Transportation

Mission Community Services Society

Provides transportation to medical appointments for seniors in the community so they can continue to live independently in their own homes.

Vancouver Island Crisis Line

Vancouver Island Crisis Society

Provides 24-hour crisis line support including suicide assessment, crisis intervention, access to mental health crisis response services, and island-wide community resources. Also offers crisis text services and online chat.

Residential Treatment Program

Stepping Stones Recovery House for Women Society

Provides a faith-based residential treatment program to help women recover from drug and alcohol addiction. A holistic approach is used to address physical, spiritual, emotional and social needs. The program includes group therapy, life coaching, fitness activities, and support groups.

Transitional Housing and Recovery Program

Stepping Stones Recovery House for Women Society

Provides second-stage transitional housing for women who have completed a substance use treatment program and need support with transitioning to a drug and alcohol-free lifestyle. The program includes group therapy, twelve-step programs, life coaching, and community volunteer work.

Mobile Needle Exchange

PHS Community Services Society

Provides clean needles and harm reduction supplies to people in the community to help reduce the spread of HIV, HCV and other illnesses. The program also promotes safer drug-use habits through referrals to health care, detox, treatment and other community services.

Services include picking up used needles from housing projects, emptying the city needle boxes in the Downtown Eastside, and collecting discarded needles from streets, alleys, and parks. A hotline is also available for delivery of harm reduction materials to anyone within the Vancouver city limits.

Spikes on Bikes

PHS Community Services Society

Provides harm reduction outreach by a two-person bicycle team that serves both the West End and Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The program provides needle recovery, overdose response, naloxone kits, overdose response training, and harm reduction supplies.

Mental Health and Wellness

Peer2Peer Indigenous Society

Provides community-based and culturally appropriate mental health and substance use services for Indigenous people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Victoria. Services include community outreach, women's healing circles, sexual assault support, and counselling and addiction treatment referrals.

Showing 261 - 270 of 533 Resources

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.

Victim Services

Shuswap Area Family Emergency Society

Provides justice-related information and referrals, emotional support and practical assistance to victims or witness of crime, criminal harassment, trauma, and or physical or sexual assault.

Services include safety planning, referrals to community services, and accompaniment to police and court appearances. Police-based crisis intervention, support and education is also available in the community by the local RCMP detachment.

Mobile Outreach

South Okanagan Women in Need Society

Provides drug checking, harm reduction supplies and education, Naloxone, snacks and water, hygiene items, and community resources information to individuals in Penticton, Oliver, Osoyoos, Summerland and surrounding areas.

Medical Transportation

Mission Community Services Society

Provides transportation to medical appointments for seniors in the community so they can continue to live independently in their own homes.

Vancouver Island Crisis Line

Vancouver Island Crisis Society

Provides 24-hour crisis line support including suicide assessment, crisis intervention, access to mental health crisis response services, and island-wide community resources. Also offers crisis text services and online chat.

Residential Treatment Program

Stepping Stones Recovery House for Women Society

Provides a faith-based residential treatment program to help women recover from drug and alcohol addiction. A holistic approach is used to address physical, spiritual, emotional and social needs. The program includes group therapy, life coaching, fitness activities, and support groups.

Transitional Housing and Recovery Program

Stepping Stones Recovery House for Women Society

Provides second-stage transitional housing for women who have completed a substance use treatment program and need support with transitioning to a drug and alcohol-free lifestyle. The program includes group therapy, twelve-step programs, life coaching, and community volunteer work.

Mobile Needle Exchange

PHS Community Services Society

Provides clean needles and harm reduction supplies to people in the community to help reduce the spread of HIV, HCV and other illnesses. The program also promotes safer drug-use habits through referrals to health care, detox, treatment and other community services.

Services include picking up used needles from housing projects, emptying the city needle boxes in the Downtown Eastside, and collecting discarded needles from streets, alleys, and parks. A hotline is also available for delivery of harm reduction materials to anyone within the Vancouver city limits.

Spikes on Bikes

PHS Community Services Society

Provides harm reduction outreach by a two-person bicycle team that serves both the West End and Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The program provides needle recovery, overdose response, naloxone kits, overdose response training, and harm reduction supplies.

Mental Health and Wellness

Peer2Peer Indigenous Society

Provides community-based and culturally appropriate mental health and substance use services for Indigenous people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Victoria. Services include community outreach, women's healing circles, sexual assault support, and counselling and addiction treatment referrals.

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