Mental Health and Substance Use Services - Squamish

Provides a range of health care and support services for adults with mental health and/or substance use issues. Services include assessment, psychiatric consultation, urgent response services, case management, treatment planning, short-term counselling, education, and referral to community resources. Also provides counselling to individuals who are concerned about someone else's substance use. In addition, provides access to other specialty substance use and mental health services. Open referral. Serves Britannia Beach, Furry Creek, and Squamish. Office hours are 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday.

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 opioid users with free Take Home Naloxone Kits (Narcan) that can be used to reverse the effects of overdoses from opioids like fentanyl, heroin, methadone, morphine, and oxycodone.