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 stay safer when using unregulated substances.
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.
Child Youth and Family Mental Health provides tertiary services to children, youth and their families throughout Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.
Island Health operates or funds a range of services for substance use detox, treatment and supportive recovery.