Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division

Provides resources to support BC communities with the stress and mental health concerns resulting from wildfires, floods and other natural disasters.

Resources include community talk events, telephone support, web links, mental health information, and tools to help manage stress, overcome challenges and feel better.

Teaches effective skills to help youth and adults overcome symptoms of mild to moderate depression or anxiety, and improve their mental health. Participants can learn skills to help with unhelpful thinking, manage worry and anxiety, and become more active and assertive.

A self-guided online program with access to video modules and worksheets is available. The program also offers coaching sessions delivered by phone or video.

Provides online information and resources for men, encouraging them to have real conversations with their buddies and to support them if they're struggling with thoughts of suicide. Topic areas include warning signs, masculinity and suicide, statistics, programs available, recommending reading, and suicide prevention.

Provides online information and resources to support good mental health for healthcare providers in BC. Resources include mental health information, webinars, blogs, videos, important phone numbers, and web links.

Topic areas include anxiety, coping tips, supporting staff, depression, social connection, financial concerns, and taking care of me.

Provides free, confidential peer mental health support to anyone working in the healthcare or social services sector. One-on-one support is available by phone, text and online chat.

Online information and resources are also available.

Provides funding and training opportunities for community-based organizations across British Columbia to develop and implement innovative service projects that respond to the needs of individuals and families experiencing mental health and or substance use challenges in their communities.

Provides a family-focused coaching service for parents of children with mild to moderate anxiety. The program helps parents build skills and strategies that strengthen their role as a parent and help with managing their child's anxiety symptoms.

The program includes short educational online videos supported by weekly telephone coaching sessions delivered at flexible times over 8 - 10 weeks to parents and caregivers across BC.

Provides a family-focused coaching service for parents of children with mild to moderate behavioural problems. Program sessions are held via telephone and parents are also provided with an accompanying manual which they work through with their coach.

Program focus includes: encouragement of positive behaviour; consequences for negative behaviour; monitoring of children's activities; problem solving; and positive involvement in children's interests, activities, and social development.

Provides a mental health check-in tool, information and online listing of supports, to help youth, adults, caregivers, and healthcare workers manage their mental health and wellness during COVID-19.

Provides online information, video resources, colouring book, and resources to help travelers reduce the anxiety, stress, and uncertainty when flying. Provided in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport.

Offers an interactive website to promote campus mental health and reduce risky substance use. The website is designed to engage students, campus professionals, faculty, administrators and community partners.

Web features include learning events, web links, and online resources such as tools and videos, interactive reports, and naloxone information.

Provides online mental health and substance use information for individuals and families in BC. The website features thousands of plain-language resources including personal stories, articles, information sheets and content in eleven languages. As well, individuals can email requests for help, support, information or referrals.

There are also four screening self-tests visitors can take covering mental well-being, depression, anxiety disorders and risky drinking. The website is coordinated by the Canadian Mental Health Association's BC Division on behalf of a group of mental health and addictions non-profit agencies called the BC Partners.

Provides information and support to people who are detained and experiencing involuntary treatment under the Mental Health Act in BC. Rights Advisors meet with patients to explain their rights and options, as well as support patients to exercise these rights. Meetings are confidential and offered by phone and in-person depending on accessibility and cultural safety needs.

Offers an interactive 8-week course that helps with understanding your feelings, thoughts and behaviors, and what to do about them. The sessions are designed to help participants identify problem areas and give them the tools and skills to make changes.

Each session includes booklets and handouts that support the skills you learn. Course contents and materials are practical and easily applied to everyday life situations. Each session focuses on a new topic to provide participants with the knowledge and skills needed to cope with daily challenges. Course booklets are also available for purchase.

Provides online mental health information and resources for specific mental illnesses, treatment and recovery, alcohol and drug use, and coping with mental health crises and emergencies.

Offers mental health resources and free training for employers and employees in BC who work in the tourism, hospitality and community social services industry. Resources include a range of tools to help with workplace concerns such as supporting colleagues through crisis, neurodiversity in the workplace and managing change effectively.

You can register for webinars, sign up for training, or connect to a workplace psychological consultant who can guide an individual, team or organization through making changes.

Offers a free, virtual parent and caregiver coaching program to support First Nations, Métis and Inuit families across BC, whose children are struggling with the experience of big worries and fears, or what the Western worldview calls anxiety.

The program is guided by traditional knowledge from Indigenous communities and includes short online videos and scheduled telephone coaching sessions to provide families with tools to discuss what they are already doing, and to learn new practices and how to use these practices with their children.