Chinese and Korean Help Lines
Provides confidential, culturally-sensitive telephone support, information and referral to the Korean community and Chinese community in both Cantonese and Mandarin. Trained volunteers provide emotional support and referrals to community resources that can help to address a wide range of life issues.
Health Coach Program
Offers free, telephone-based coaching to support people living with chronic conditions to become better self-managers. Health coaches and participants are paired based on gender, age and or shared chronic health conditions.
Participants are supported with setting goals and actions to better manage their health, being motivated to start and maintain health-behaviour changes, and becoming more self-confident.
Ability411
Provides online information about assistive technologies and equipment to BC seniors, their family members, and care teams. Online resources include finding equipment, financial aid, free equipment loan programs, and equipment rentals. Web links to information and resources for health services, home and community care, telehealth, and caregiver support is also available.
Suicide Grief Support
Offers a support group for individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide. Trained facilitators provide a safe, non-judgemental, compassionate environment where participants can share experiences, learn grief and mourning tools, and receive community connections, practical information and support. Provided in partnership with the BC Crisis Centre.
Fly Calm
Provides online information, video resources, colouring book, and resources to help travelers reduce the anxiety, stress, and uncertainty when flying. Provided in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport.
Care to Speak
Provides free, confidential peer mental health support to anyone working in the healthcare or social services sector. One-on-one support is available by phone, text and online chat.
Online information and resources are also available.
Buddy Up
Provides online information and resources for men, encouraging them to have real conversations with their buddies and to support them if they're struggling with thoughts of suicide. Topic areas include warning signs, masculinity and suicide, statistics, programs available, recommending reading, and suicide prevention.
People Working Well
Offers mental health resources and free training for employers and employees in BC who work in the tourism, hospitality and community social services industry. Resources include a range of tools to help with workplace concerns such as supporting colleagues through crisis, neurodiversity in the workplace and managing change effectively.
You can register for webinars, sign up for training, or connect to a workplace psychological consultant who can guide an individual, team or organization through making changes.
MS Knowledge Network
Provides multiple sclerosis (MS) information and support for anyone in BC by phone, email or chat. Online MS information is also available.
Topic areas include symptom management, treatment, living with MS, employment support, financial planning, MS research, and community programs and services.
Eating Disorder Peer Support Group
Offers a weekly peer support group for adults with an eating disorder or who struggle with food, exercise or body image that affects their quality of life or interferes with day-to-day living.
Peer facilitators are not counsellors but individuals who are in various places of recovery themselves. The group currently meets virtually by zoom only; see website how to join a meeting.