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Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - Mid-Island Branch

Empowers people with mental health challenges to improve the quality of their lives through a range of support and advocacy services. Services include education to increase community awareness of mental health issues and to develop skills related to managing mental health challenges. Funded by BC Housing and Island Health. Nonprofit society, registered charity.

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Website

www.cmhamidisland.ca

Contact

Phone 1: 250-244-4042
Fax: 250-244-4045
Email: midisland.admin@cmha.bc.ca

Address

437 Wesley Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 2T8

Mailing Address

437 Wesley Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 2T8

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6 services offered by: Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - Mid-Island Branch

Employment Support

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Provides employment search services to individuals with mental health and/or substance use challenges in Nanaimo.

Provides employment search services to individuals with mental health and/or substance use challenges in Nanaimo. Program supports rapid placement, competitive employment opportunities, participant choice, and retention services such as on-site job coaching to assist in securing and maintaining employment. Wage subsidies are available for employers.
Website

www.cmhamidisland.ca
Address

437 Wesley Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 2T8
Program supports rapid placement, competitive employment opportunities, participant choice, and retention services such as on-site job coaching to assist in securing and maintaining employment. Wage subsidies are available for employers.

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Mailing Address

437 Wesley Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 2T8

Contact

Nanaimo: 250-244-4042 Local 206

Fax: 250-244-4045

Email: info@cmha.bc.ca

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Housing Program

Provided by Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - Mid-Island Branch
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Provides low-barrier, supportive housing to individuals with mental health and/or addiction challenges who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of chronic homelessness.

Provides low-barrier, supportive housing to individuals with mental health and/or addiction challenges who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of chronic homelessness. Offers two residences in Nanaimo and one in Comox. Tenants must be referred and followed by community case management organizations.
Website

www.cmhamidisland.ca
Address

437 Wesley Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 2T8
Offers two residences in Nanaimo and one in Comox. Tenants must be referred and followed by community case management organizations.

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Mailing Address

437 Wesley Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 2T8

Contact

Phone 1: 250-244-4042 Local 212

Fax: 250-244-4045

Email: ben.schell@cmha.bc.ca

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Nanaimo Overdose Prevention Site

Provided by Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - Mid-Island Branch
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Provides a place where people who use drugs can be safely monitored and treated immediately if they overdose.

Provides a place where people who use drugs can be safely monitored and treated immediately if they overdose. Can accommodate injection and inhalation use. Provides harm reduction supplies, along with harm reduction education and referrals to health services, addictions services, and other social supports. Needle exchange services include distribution of clean needles, sterile water, and alcohol wipes; disposal of used needles; and health information to encourage safer injection practices. Provides safer drug use supplies such as crack pipe mouthpiece and screens, and injection supplies. Provides safer sex supplies, including condoms. Provides Take Home Naloxone Kits (Narcan) that can be used to reverse the effects of overdoses from opioids like fentanyl, heroin, methadone, morphine, and oxycodone. Offers confidential testing of substances to detect contaminants such as fentanyl and benzodiazepines. Open from 11 am to 9 pm seven days a week.
Website

www.cmhamidisland.ca
Address

250 Albert Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 2V6
Can accommodate injection and inhalation use. Provides harm reduction supplies, along with harm reduction education and referrals to health services, addictions services, and other social supports. Needle exchange services include distribution of clean needles, sterile water, and alcohol wipes; disposal of used needles; and health information to encourage safer injection practices. Provides safer drug use supplies such as crack pipe mouthpiece and screens, and injection supplies. Provides safer sex supplies, including condoms. Provides Take Home Naloxone Kits (Narcan) that can be used to reverse the effects of overdoses from opioids like fentanyl, heroin, methadone, morphine, and oxycodone. Offers confidential testing of substances to detect contaminants such as fentanyl and benzodiazepines. Open from 11 am to 9 pm seven days a week.

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Mailing Address

250 Albert Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 2V6

Contact

Phone 1: 250-244-4042 Local 209

Fax: 250-244-4045

Email: destiny.herman@cmha.bc.ca

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Social Centre at Bastion

Provided by Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - Mid-Island Branch
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Drop-in centre provides a range of social, vocational, and recreational activities and workshops for adults with mental health or substance use challenges.

Drop-in centre provides a range of social, vocational, and recreational activities and workshops for adults with mental health or substance use challenges. Also offers free clothing, bedding, and household items, and accepts such donations. Provides a free community meal at 4 pm on Wednesdays. Also offers low-cost frozen meals. Operated in partnership with Island Health. Hours are 10 am to 4 pm Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and 1 pm to 7 pm Wednesdays.
Website

www.cmhamidisland.ca
Address

290 Bastion Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 3A4
Also offers free clothing, bedding, and household items, and accepts such donations. Provides a free community meal at 4 pm on Wednesdays. Also offers low-cost frozen meals. Operated in partnership with Island Health. Hours are 10 am to 4 pm Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and 1 pm to 7 pm Wednesdays.

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Mailing Address

437 Wesley Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 2T8

Contact

Phone 1: 250-244-4042 Local 208

Fax: 250-244-4045

Email: midisland.admin@cmha.bc.ca

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Street Reach

Provided by Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - Mid-Island Branch
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Provides outreach to individuals age 19 and over (youth age 18 and younger may also be eligible) who are homeless, at risk of becoming homeless, or difficult to house.

Provides outreach to individuals age 19 and over (youth age 18 and younger may also be eligible) who are homeless, at risk of becoming homeless, or difficult to house. Outreach workers meet with individuals where they are to determine housing needs, and provide referrals to services to meet immediate needs such as emergency shelter, food, clothing, and blankets. Also provides help with obtaining identification and income assistance. Connects individuals to housing options by providing support with applications, move-in process, appointments and/or housing viewings, and liaison with landlords; rent subsidies may be available. Provides links to culturally appropriate services, as well as referrals to other support services such as health care, counselling, and addiction recovery. Serves Nanaimo and Oceanside area communities. Office hours 9 am to 4 pm Monday to Friday. Funded as a Homelessness Outreach Program (HOP) by BC Housing.
Website

www.cmhamidisland.ca
Address

Nanaimo, BC
Outreach workers meet with individuals where they are to determine housing needs, and provide referrals to services to meet immediate needs such as emergency shelter, food, clothing, and blankets. Also provides help with obtaining identification and income assistance. Connects individuals to housing options by providing support with applications, move-in process, appointments and/or housing viewings, and liaison with landlords; rent subsidies may be available. Provides links to culturally appropriate services, as well as referrals to other support services such as health care, counselling, and addiction recovery. Serves Nanaimo and Oceanside area communities. Office hours 9 am to 4 pm Monday to Friday. Funded as a Homelessness Outreach Program (HOP) by BC Housing.

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Mailing Address

437 Wesley Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 2T8

Contact

Nanaimo: 250-716-8823

Oceanside Area: 250-240-5272

Fax: 250-244-4045

Email: street.reach@cmha.bc.ca

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The Out Shop

Provided by Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - Mid-Island Branch
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Meets the needs of those that are living unsheltered by providing essential survival supplies such as tents, sleeping bags, tarps, ropes, first aid kits, flashlights, socks, soap, and toothbrushes.

Meets the needs of those that are living unsheltered by providing essential survival supplies such as tents, sleeping bags, tarps, ropes, first aid kits, flashlights, socks, soap, and toothbrushes. Depot at 290 Bastion Street is available to individuals experiencing homelessness on a drop-in basis from 11 am to 3 pm Mondays and Wednesdays; enter at the back of the building, off Fraser Street. Clients are limited to one visit every two weeks, with some restrictions on larger items. Also provides access to Street Reach outreach services. Short intake form, and any info given is voluntary and confidential. Also accessible by community organizations that provide support and outreach services during depot drop-in times, and by appointment 1 pm to 5 pm Mondays and Wednesdays. Funded by Government of Canada's Reaching Home: Canada's Homelessness Strategy.
Website

www.cmhamidisland.ca/theoutshop
Address

Depot, 290 Bastion Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 3A4
Depot at 290 Bastion Street is available to individuals experiencing homelessness on a drop-in basis from 11 am to 3 pm Mondays and Wednesdays; enter at the back of the building, off Fraser Street. Clients are limited to one visit every two weeks, with some restrictions on larger items. Also provides access to Street Reach outreach services. Short intake form, and any info given is voluntary and confidential. Also accessible by community organizations that provide support and outreach services during depot drop-in times, and by appointment 1 pm to 5 pm Mondays and Wednesdays. Funded by Government of Canada's Reaching Home: Canada's Homelessness Strategy.

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Mailing Address

437 Wesley Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 2T8

Contact

Phone 1: 250-619-6959

Office: 250-244-4042

Email: theoutshop@cmha.bc.ca

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Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - Mid-Island Branch

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6 services offered by: Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - Mid-Island Branch

Employment Support

Website

Address

Mailing Address

Contact

Housing Program

Website

Address

Mailing Address

Contact

Nanaimo Overdose Prevention Site

Website

Address

Mailing Address

Contact

Social Centre at Bastion

Website

Address

Mailing Address

Contact

Street Reach

Website

Address

Mailing Address

Contact

The Out Shop

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Mailing Address

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