Mental Health and Substance Use Services - Whistler

Provides a range of health care and support services for adults with mental health and/or substance use issues. Primarily serves clients who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, or mood disorders including bipolar and major depressive disorders. Services include assessment, treatment planning, counselling, education, case management, urgent response services, psychiatric consultation, referrals to employment and education support, and referrals to other community resources. Open referral. Serves Whistler. 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.