mindcheck.ca is a website designed to help BC youth and young adults, ages 13 to 25, to better understand mental health challenges and learn about steps they can take to improve their well-being. Support includes education, links to self-care tools, and assistance in connecting to local professional resources. www.mindcheck.ca
Posts Categorized: Mental Health
Here To Help
Here To Help is a web site geared towards mental health and substance use information. It features a ton of up-to-date information on both, ideas & skills to help manage these issues, screening self-tests, and support in the form of their discussion forums or by email.
Richmond Youth Medical Clinic
Richmond Youth Clinic provides free and confidential services to youth aged 13-21. Services include: birth control/ECP, STI testing, pregnancy testing/counseling, PAP testing, IUD insertion, mental health counseling and referral.
The North Shore Schizophrenia Society
The North Shore Schizophrenia Society is a peer support organization, helping families whose relatives are struggling with any serious mental illness. Trained family volunteers provide counseling, information, education, advocacy and ongoing support in both the North Shore and Sea to Sky corridor.
Mood Disorders Association
The Mood Disorders Association of BC is built around peer-run, self-help support groups, but also offers special language, faith-based and educational programs as well.
Ministry of Children & Family Development
MCFD is the provincial ministry holding the responsibility for the well-being of children and their healthy development. They are probably best known for providing child protection and supervising substitute care (like foster care and group homes), but also provide services for children with special needs, child and youth mental health, youth justice, and early childhood development programs and services.
Early Psychosis Intervention BC
Early Psychosis Intervention (EPI) Programs serve young people between the ages of 13 and 35 and their families, providing support, education and referral when they are struggling with early signs of psychosis.
British Columbian Schizophrenia Society
The BC Schizophrenia Society provides and promotes support to families of people with severe mental illness, public education, advocacy, and research.
Kelty Resource Centre
Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre is a provincial resource centre working to link children, youth and their families with appropriate resources in all areas of mental health and addictions. In addition, as spiritual successors to the Eating Disorder Resource Centre of BC, the centre also provides information and referrals to adults with eating disorders.
Vine Avenue Youth Wellness Drop-In
Located in White Rock, BC, provides free and confidential health care for youths aged 12-21. General medical issues, sexual health (including free STI testing and free birth control) mental health assessments and referrals, as well as addictions assessments and counselling.