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Harm Reduction

RainCity Housing and Support Society

Provides street outreach and harm reduction supplies to members of the community who use drugs and or who engage in sex work. The teams also provide information regarding overdose prevention and response, safe drug using, recent drug and sex work alerts, and referrals to other supports in the community such as housing and substance use treatment.

Mobile Harm Reduction and Prevention Program

Pacific Community Resources Society

Offers mobile outreach to individuals who are experiencing homeless or at-risk populations from Chilliwack to Boston Bar. A mobile vehicle travels to different communities to provide harm reduction supplies, fentanyl test strips, safer sex supplies, sexually transmitted infection testing, and collection of needles and syringes.

Staff with lived experience also connects people to services such as housing, income assistance, mental health and other community resources.

School-based Drug and Alcohol Program

Hope and Area Transition 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.

Crisis Line - Williams Lake and Area

Canadian Mental Health Association - Cariboo Chilcotin Branch

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. A trained staff member or volunteer is available to listen, provide information, and support in an anonymous and confidential manner. Program offers: suicide intervention, information about available services, and non-judgmental support during challenging times.

Kootenay Boundary Regional Crisis Line

Trail Family and Individual Resource Centre Society

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. A trained staff member or volunteer is available to listen, provide information, and support in an anonymous and confidential manner.

Program offers: suicide intervention, information about available services, and non-judgmental support during challenging times. Also takes gatekeeper calls regarding elder abuse and neglect.

Outreach Services

Supporting Women's Alternatives Network

Provides free and confidential outreach visits to newcomer, migrant and immigrant women who are engaged in indoor sex work in the Lower Mainland area to distribute safer-sex supplies and information resources. Also connects women to healthcare providers and offers information about immigration, housing, law, employment, safety and health.

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.

Peer Navigator Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - Vancouver Fraser Branch

Provides assistance to individuals who are not part of a mental health team and who may be newly diagnosed with a mental health concern. Peer Navigators have lived experience with mental illness, substance use problems and addictions, and understand the social and health services available in Vancouver.

Navigators assist clients with accessing services such as health and wellness, legal aid, housing, income and financial assistance, and community connections. Funded by Vancouver Coastal Health.

Community Drivers

Contact Community Assistance Society

Offers transportation to medical appointments by volunteer drivers for individuals who are unable to access public or private transportation to attend non-emergency medical appointments.

Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment

Amata Transition House 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.

Showing 291 - 300 of 534 Resources

Harm Reduction

RainCity Housing and Support Society

Provides street outreach and harm reduction supplies to members of the community who use drugs and or who engage in sex work. The teams also provide information regarding overdose prevention and response, safe drug using, recent drug and sex work alerts, and referrals to other supports in the community such as housing and substance use treatment.

Mobile Harm Reduction and Prevention Program

Pacific Community Resources Society

Offers mobile outreach to individuals who are experiencing homeless or at-risk populations from Chilliwack to Boston Bar. A mobile vehicle travels to different communities to provide harm reduction supplies, fentanyl test strips, safer sex supplies, sexually transmitted infection testing, and collection of needles and syringes.

Staff with lived experience also connects people to services such as housing, income assistance, mental health and other community resources.

School-based Drug and Alcohol Program

Hope and Area Transition 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.

Crisis Line - Williams Lake and Area

Canadian Mental Health Association - Cariboo Chilcotin Branch

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. A trained staff member or volunteer is available to listen, provide information, and support in an anonymous and confidential manner. Program offers: suicide intervention, information about available services, and non-judgmental support during challenging times.

Kootenay Boundary Regional Crisis Line

Trail Family and Individual Resource Centre Society

Provides 24-hour telephone help for anyone in crisis. A trained staff member or volunteer is available to listen, provide information, and support in an anonymous and confidential manner.

Program offers: suicide intervention, information about available services, and non-judgmental support during challenging times. Also takes gatekeeper calls regarding elder abuse and neglect.

Outreach Services

Supporting Women's Alternatives Network

Provides free and confidential outreach visits to newcomer, migrant and immigrant women who are engaged in indoor sex work in the Lower Mainland area to distribute safer-sex supplies and information resources. Also connects women to healthcare providers and offers information about immigration, housing, law, employment, safety and health.

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.

Peer Navigator Program

Canadian Mental Health Association - Vancouver Fraser Branch

Provides assistance to individuals who are not part of a mental health team and who may be newly diagnosed with a mental health concern. Peer Navigators have lived experience with mental illness, substance use problems and addictions, and understand the social and health services available in Vancouver.

Navigators assist clients with accessing services such as health and wellness, legal aid, housing, income and financial assistance, and community connections. Funded by Vancouver Coastal Health.

Community Drivers

Contact Community Assistance Society

Offers transportation to medical appointments by volunteer drivers for individuals who are unable to access public or private transportation to attend non-emergency medical appointments.

Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment

Amata Transition House 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.

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