A 24-hour telephone line offers confidential and culturally competent crisis intervention and counselling support for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis ?people across Canada. Counsellors also work with callers to identify follow-up wellness supports they can acc...

Provides individuals with access to specialists in addictions medicine and psychiatry as well as mental health and wellness care coordinators. Services are free to all First Nations people and their family members living in BC, including family members who are...

A full-time, culturally-appropriate outpatient program providing mental wellness and substance use programs, and outpatient counselling for the Indigenous population in the Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) region. Works with multiple agencies to provide appropri...

Aboriginal Mental Health Outreach provides culturally appropriate mental health counselling to Aboriginal youth and their families who have been unable to engage with or access mental health services. Services include assessment and therapeutic counselling and...

Provides help for, and promotes healing of, Aboriginal individuals and communities in BC who have experienced emotional, physical, sexual, and spiritual abuse in residential schools. Services include counselling, referral to community-based services, workshops...

Native Courtworkers facilitate access to justice by assisting Indigenous people in conflict with the law who are involved in the criminal justice system to obtain fair, just, equitable and culturally sensitive treatment. Services include referral to legal serv...

Indigenous Case Workers facilitate access to justice by assisting Indigenous people involved in the criminal justice system to obtain fair, just, equitable and culturally sensitive treatment. Provides support, including helping the accused understand their rig...

Provides health care services on a first-come, first-served basis for residents of the Downtown Eastside and urban Indigenous people. Family physicians offer primary care medical services (except obstetrics). Nursing services are available seven days a week. S...

Partners Indigenous Elders with physicians and allied health professionals to provide physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual care to the community in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Primary care follows a team-based, comprehensive, and culturally-informed m...

Provides group or one-to-one support for families, with an Indigenous approach. Offers an Indigenous perspective, knowledge, and approach to community support, healing, and wellness. Also assists those who are disconnected from family or who have recently unit...

Aims to improve patients' holistic wellness, resilience, and sense of positive identity through connection to Indigenous culture, spirituality, and Elders and Knowledge Keepers; goal is to address the intergenerational effects of residential schools and coloni...

Offers individual counselling and advocacy to Indigenous women and transgender, nonbinary, Two-Spirit. and gender diverse individuals ages 14 and up who have experienced recent or historical sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, sexual harassment, criminal h...

Provides culturally appropriate services by Indigenous women for Indigenous women. Services include Indigenous Women's Counselling/Stopping the Violence (STV) Program, First Nations Women's Support Worker/Community-Based Victim Services Program, and specialize...

Provides mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual support and health services. Services include conventional mental health and addictions counselling as well as traditional, alternative healing and wellness services.

Provides help for and promotes healing of Aboriginal individuals and communities in BC who have experienced emotional, physical, sexual, and spiritual abuse in residential schools. Services include counselling, referral to community-based services, workshops o...

Provides eligible Indigenous individuals with access to free counselling services from a qualified mental health provider. Administers access to coverage and determines eligibility for four programs: Mental Wellness and Counselling Program, Indian Day Schools ...

Provides healing services for Indigenous adults age 18 and older with substance use and trauma issues. Services include community drop-in programs, group healing, individual and family counselling, and referral to substance use and mental health services. Inco...

Native Courtworkers facilitates access to justice by assisting Indigenous people in conflict with the law who are involved in the criminal justice system to obtain fair, just, equitable and culturally sensitive treatment. Services include referral to legal ser...

Voluntary program whereby a one-to-one worker provides support to Indigenous families experiencing life challenges. Assists families in creating or increasing natural and extended family supports in the community and developing specific strategies in dealing w...

Mental health and addictions counsellor provide counselling and referral services to Aboriginal people and those of Aboriginal descent who are having difficulties with substance misuse. Office hours are 8:30 am to 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm Monday to Frid...

Provides services to Aboriginal youth including child protection, family support, and probation. Provides mental health services to Aboriginal children and youth, including outreach and clinical support. Also facilitates family case planning conferences, famil...

Supports women to address trauma, relationship violence, and heal from historical and intergenerational trauma. Offers RedPath Living Without Violence Program, a 12 week group which meets six hours per week; weekly healing circles; connections to community and...

This class action settlement provides compensation for the harms suffered by Indigenous students forced to attend Federal Indian Day Schools and Federal Day Schools across Canada. Claims for compensation processing began January 13, 2020. Gowling WLG (Canada) ...