Emergency & Hospital Care
Services include assessment and treatment, psychiatric services, and hospital-based care.
Mental Health and Substance Use Services
Crisis Response
Services for immediate support in the event of a mental health and/or substance use crisis.
Mental Health Treatment & Recovery Beds
Mental health treatment and recovery beds include services for adults with a significant and persistent mental illness who need ongoing support.
Referrals to Child Youth & Family Mental Health
Child Youth and Family Mental Health provides tertiary services to children, youth and their families throughout Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.
Sobering & Assessment Centre
1125 Pembroke Street, Victoria, BC
Needle Recovery in the Cowichan Valley
DUNCAN – Island Health and community partners in the Cowichan Valley have increased safety efforts in response to concerns about the number of needles being improperly discarded throughout the community.
Harm Reduction for Substance Use
Harm reduction services help people who use unregulated substances lower their risk of harm, injury and death.
Access - Referrals to Youth & Family Substance Use Services
Island Health provides a network of counselling, prevention, residential care and treatment services across Vancouver Island for youth (ages 13-19) and their families.
Second supervised consumption service application submitted for Victoria
Victoria – Island Health, in partnership with PHS Community Services Society (PHS), has submitted a second application for a supervised consumption service in Victoria. If approved by Health Canada, the service will be the first on Vancouver Island to embed supervised consumption services into a housing facility for vulnerable, high risk individuals. It will be open to building residents and registered guests only.
Supervised Consumption Services approved for Victoria
Victoria – Island Health has been given approval by Health Canada to open a supervised consumption service (SCS) in Victoria. The service will help reverse overdoses and connect people with treatment services in Victoria, which has B.C.’s third highest rate of drug overdose deaths.