Island Health provides a network of counselling, prevention, residential care and treatment services across Vancouver Island for youth (ages 13-19) and their families.
Mental Health and Substance Use teams help you access services in your community.
Provides consultative psychiatric care to patients in areas that typically experience long wait times or do not have access to local psychiatry services.
Services for immediate support in the event of a mental health and/or substance use crisis.
Discovery offers free community-based counselling services and access to residential care and treatment for youth ages 13-19.
Drug checking is a harm reduction service that helps people make informed decisions about unregulated substances before they use.
Services include assessment and treatment, psychiatric services, and hospital-based care.
Harm reduction services help people who use unregulated substances lower their risk of harm, injury and death.
Mental health treatment and recovery beds include services for adults with a significant and persistent mental illness who need ongoing support.
Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) is an evidenced-based treatment for opioid use disorder.
Supporting children, youth and their families by evaluating and planning treatment for significant emotional, behavioural, psychological and psychiatric symptoms.
The Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth Program is a dynamic, interactive injury prevention program for teenagers.