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Available B.C. wide

WalkAlong

University of British Columbia

Provides online information and resources for youth to assess and manage their mental health within a positive online community environment.

Features include: self-assessments for depression and anxiety; mental health trackers; mental illness and treatment information; self-help exercises; and the ability to share experiences and resources such as links, videos and artwork.

Available B.C. wide

Online Information and Resources

Foundry

Provides online information, tools, and strategies to help young people and families find the mental health and substance use support they need. Offers apps, wellness tips, workbooks and self-check, web links, strategies for supporting others, and connections to services online and in the community.

Topic areas include anxiety, body image and eating, drugs and other substances, alcohol, low mood and depression, questioning reality, and stress.

Available B.C. wide

Foundry Virtual BC

Foundry

Foundry Virtual BC offers free mental health and wellness services for youth aged 12 to 24 and their caregivers. Services include:

  • Counselling
  • Peer Support
  • Groups & Workshops
  • Physical & Sexual healthcare
  • Employment & Education Services
  • Indigenous Wellness Services

Download the Foundry BC app and register for an account to access services.

Available B.C. wide

Narcotics Anonymous Meetings

BC Region of Narcotics Anonymous

Provides an online listing of local support groups for men and women with addiction who wish to maintain a drug-free lifestyle. Recovering addicts meet regularly to help each other stay clean and share recovery with one another. Closed meetings are for members or for recovering addicts only, while open meetings are available to anyone interested in the program.

Available B.C. wide

BC Take Home Naloxone Program

BC Centre for Disease Control

Provides an online listing of Take Home Naloxone sites in BC. Naloxone kits are available, at no cost, for people who use opioids and people who are likely to witness and respond to an overdose. Toward the Heart also provides naloxone and harm reduction information and resources.

Naloxone is a medication that reverses the effects of an overdose from opioids such as heroin, methadone, fentanyl, and morphine. See website to locate a Take Home Naloxone site near you.

Available B.C. wide

Mental Health Information and Resources

The Mental Health Commission of Canada

Offers online resources, interactive tools and training programs aimed at increasing mental health literacy and improving mental health and well-being of Canadians. Website features include online library, webinars, newsletters and annual reports.

Available B.C. wide

Provincial Opioid Addiction Treatment Support Program

British Columbia Centre on Substance Use

Provides clinical care guidance and training programs for all health care professionals in the province who are treating opioid use disorder and are prescribing medication such as buprenorphine/naloxone, methadone, slow-release oral morphine, and injectable opioid agonist treatment.

The program also maintains a province-wide directory of opioid agonist treatment clinics accepting new patients, and makes recommendations to Health Canada regarding health professionals wishing to obtain authorization to prescribe methadone for opioid addiction.

Available B.C. wide

Provincial Specialized Eating Disorders Program

Vancouver Coastal Health

Provides assessment and treatment to adults diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, bulimia or other specified feeding or eating disorder. The program offers multidisciplinary assessment, psychosocial evaluation, residential day program, tertiary inpatient program at St. Paul's Hospital, and a variety of outpatient services. Provided in partnership with the Provincial Adult Specialized Tertiary Eating Disorders Program.

Multiple Locations

Available B.C. wide

Anorexia and Bulimia Support Groups

Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous

Provides an online listing of support groups available in BC for men and women who need help with recovery from unhealthy eating habits such as anorexia and bulimia. Twelve Steps of recovery and Twelve Traditions are used for knowledge and wisdom.

Available B.C. wide

Eating Disorders Support Meetings

Eating Disorders Anonymous

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.

Showing 91 - 100 of 528 Resources
Available B.C. wide

WalkAlong

University of British Columbia

Provides online information and resources for youth to assess and manage their mental health within a positive online community environment.

Features include: self-assessments for depression and anxiety; mental health trackers; mental illness and treatment information; self-help exercises; and the ability to share experiences and resources such as links, videos and artwork.

Available B.C. wide

Online Information and Resources

Foundry

Provides online information, tools, and strategies to help young people and families find the mental health and substance use support they need. Offers apps, wellness tips, workbooks and self-check, web links, strategies for supporting others, and connections to services online and in the community.

Topic areas include anxiety, body image and eating, drugs and other substances, alcohol, low mood and depression, questioning reality, and stress.

Available B.C. wide

Foundry Virtual BC

Foundry

Foundry Virtual BC offers free mental health and wellness services for youth aged 12 to 24 and their caregivers. Services include:

  • Counselling
  • Peer Support
  • Groups & Workshops
  • Physical & Sexual healthcare
  • Employment & Education Services
  • Indigenous Wellness Services

Download the Foundry BC app and register for an account to access services.

Available B.C. wide

Narcotics Anonymous Meetings

BC Region of Narcotics Anonymous

Provides an online listing of local support groups for men and women with addiction who wish to maintain a drug-free lifestyle. Recovering addicts meet regularly to help each other stay clean and share recovery with one another. Closed meetings are for members or for recovering addicts only, while open meetings are available to anyone interested in the program.

Available B.C. wide

BC Take Home Naloxone Program

BC Centre for Disease Control

Provides an online listing of Take Home Naloxone sites in BC. Naloxone kits are available, at no cost, for people who use opioids and people who are likely to witness and respond to an overdose. Toward the Heart also provides naloxone and harm reduction information and resources.

Naloxone is a medication that reverses the effects of an overdose from opioids such as heroin, methadone, fentanyl, and morphine. See website to locate a Take Home Naloxone site near you.

Available B.C. wide

Mental Health Information and Resources

The Mental Health Commission of Canada

Offers online resources, interactive tools and training programs aimed at increasing mental health literacy and improving mental health and well-being of Canadians. Website features include online library, webinars, newsletters and annual reports.

Available B.C. wide

Provincial Opioid Addiction Treatment Support Program

British Columbia Centre on Substance Use

Provides clinical care guidance and training programs for all health care professionals in the province who are treating opioid use disorder and are prescribing medication such as buprenorphine/naloxone, methadone, slow-release oral morphine, and injectable opioid agonist treatment.

The program also maintains a province-wide directory of opioid agonist treatment clinics accepting new patients, and makes recommendations to Health Canada regarding health professionals wishing to obtain authorization to prescribe methadone for opioid addiction.

Available B.C. wide

Provincial Specialized Eating Disorders Program

Vancouver Coastal Health

Provides assessment and treatment to adults diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, bulimia or other specified feeding or eating disorder. The program offers multidisciplinary assessment, psychosocial evaluation, residential day program, tertiary inpatient program at St. Paul's Hospital, and a variety of outpatient services. Provided in partnership with the Provincial Adult Specialized Tertiary Eating Disorders Program.

Multiple Locations

Available B.C. wide

Anorexia and Bulimia Support Groups

Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous

Provides an online listing of support groups available in BC for men and women who need help with recovery from unhealthy eating habits such as anorexia and bulimia. Twelve Steps of recovery and Twelve Traditions are used for knowledge and wisdom.

Available B.C. wide

Eating Disorders Support Meetings

Eating Disorders Anonymous

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.

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