Mobile Response Team
Offers support, education and training to first responders, frontline healthcare workers, and other community care providers, who are experiencing distress and mental health concerns related to overdoses, overdose death, or COVID-19.
Lifeguard App
Provides a free phone app that brings emergency responders to people who may be having an overdose on drugs while alone. Provided in partnership with regional health authorities and Lifeguard Digital Health.
The app is activated by the user before they take their dose. If the user doesn't hit a button after a set amount of time, a text-to-voice call will go to 9-1-1, alerting emergency medical dispatchers of a possible overdose.
BC Autism Assessment Network
Provides assessment and diagnosis of autism in children through a network of specialists and health care professionals across British Columbia.
Hope for Wellness Help Line
Offers immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada. Experienced and culturally competent counsellors can help those who wish to talk, are distressed, in crisis, or having strong emotional reactions and or painful memories. Online chat is also available.
Trans Care BC
Provides BC-wide information and resources to make sure people have the information they need to access gender affirming health care and supports.
Support areas and information includes accessing care, social transitioning, peer and community support, advocacy, mental health wellness, child and youth resources, how to get surgery, and family support.
Eating Disorders Support Meetings
Provides an online listing of support groups available in BC, as well as online information and resources, to support individuals with their recovery from an eating disorder.
Telephone and internet meetings are also available. Twelve Steps of recovery are used for knowledge and wisdom.
Overdose Prevention and Response - Interior Health
Provides an online listing of Take Home Naloxone sites for the Interior Health Authority area, as well as overdose prevention information, resources and treatment services.
Overdose Prevention and Response - Northern Health
Provides an online listing of Take Home Naloxone sites for the Northern Health Authority area, as well as information on overdose prevention, resources, and drug information.
Cross-Cultural Mental Health Resources
Assists individuals who do not speak or understand English with finding mental health and substance use services that they or a loved one needs. Services include online information and resources, non-urgent interpreter services, and videos on how to get medical help in the Fraser Health area.
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.