The Mobile Health Van offers free mobile harm reduction services, including supplies intended for safer sex, injection, snorting, and smoking. Services also include on-the-spot shelter and health-care referrals, snacks, hygiene supplies, bad-date reporting, di...

Coordinates referrals and connection to Fraser Health substance use residential treatment services. Referrals from outside of Fraser Health are accepted from withdrawal management facilities; substance use counsellors/concurrent disorder therapists working in ...

Christian-based community group offers support to victims of harmful circumstances and dependencies. Provides information for individuals dealing with addictions and recovery, and hosts Christian 12-step meetings. Also offers outreach support to drop-in centre...

Supports women who are pregnant or have a child under six months old and are impacted by substance use and/or violence and abuse. Women do not need to have their children in their care to receive support provided there is an ongoing relationship with the child...

Recovery club for alcoholics, addicts, and others desiring fellowship in a drug- and alohol-free environment. Hosts support groups such as AA, NA, CA, Al-Anon, Alateen, and ACOA, provides referrals to detoxification and treatment centres, offers peer counselli...

Provides central intake services for mental health and substance use services, which provide a range of health care and support services for children, youth, adults, and older adults with mental health and/or substance use issues. Services include assessment, ...

Free program offers support for individuals age 17 and older who self-identify as having mental health and/or substance use concerns and are not part of a mental health team. Provides information and referral to services such as housing, income assistance, leg...

Offers short-term, in-home acute psychiatric care for adults with increased symptoms or distress related to mental illness and/or substance use, as an alternative to hospitalization. Designed to provide individuals who are currently experiencing a psychiatric ...

A group of former and current drug users provide peer support and education to improve the lives of people who use illicit drugs. Organizes social action in communities to save lives. Promotes local, regional, and national harm-reduction education and interven...

Aims to prevent the transmission of HIV and other infections with a particular focus on intravenous drug users and sex trade workers. Provides harm reduction supplies, along with harm reduction education and referrals to health services, addictions services, a...

Operates a drop-in clinical pharmacy specializing in comprehensive medication management and support of people with mental health and addiction issues. Also offers support programs for psychosis and hepatitis C; access to nurses and social workers; and informa...

Offers a supportive space where Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Downtown Eastside can reconnect with traditional approaches to community and healing. Services include Elder/family cultural guidance, community meetings, social/recreational activitie...

Offers brief follow-up to establish a connection to addictions care after opioid overdose; also serves those at high risk of opioid overdose. Services include navigation to appropriate services, support in accessing opioid agonist therapy, and overdose prevent...

Provides services to street-involved youth who are affected by substance abuse, including individual counselling, crisis intervention, referrals, and drug/alcohol information and education. Also offers assessment and referral to detox and residential treatment...

Provides specialized mental health services for seniors age 65 and over who are experiencing mental health issues such as late onset depression, bipolar illness, psychosis, severe behaviour problems related to dementia, problems related to aging that complicat...

Provides free, confidential, multilingual information about free gambling support and treatment services for individuals in BC struggling with their own or another's gambling. Resource navigators provides referrals to free counselling services, prevention and ...

Community members with lived experience of drug misuse cycle around the Downtown Eastside, Gastown, and the West End in Vancouver on specially equipped bicycles to respond to drug overdoses. Also distribute Take Home Naloxone Kits (Narcan) that can be used to ...

Provides free, confidential, multilingual, information and referral regarding community resources for people in BC dealing with substance use and addiction issues. Resource navigators provide information about detox, counselling, treatment programs, recovery h...

Provides a range of mental health and substance use services for Vancouver residents age 17 and over for non-urgent, urgent, and non-emergent intervention: goal is to provide optimal pathways for people to access the appropriate resources in a timely and clien...

Offers a continuum of care to individuals seeking help for substance use issues. Provides coordinated access to 14 detox beds, and 20 transitional care beds in the community. Outpatient services will be provided as clients wait to access inpatient support. Int...

Screening and referral telephone line that provides youth and adults access to free withdrawal management services (detox), counselling, medication (methadone maintenance programs), and addiction housing. People who require detoxification receive immediate scr...

Responsible for the training and clinical care guidance activities for all health care professionals in the province who are prescribing medications to treat opioid addiction including oral opioid agonist treatment (methadone, buprenorphine/naloxone, and slow-...

Provides mental health and substance use information and resources, assistance navigating the mental health system, as well as free personalized support from parent peer support workers. Services are available to families across BC and Yukon with children and ...