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Mental Health Information


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MENTAL HEALTH

Resources and Links

Find some great links and resources for students and their families.

Anxiety Canada

Anxiety Canada provides self-help information and programs, as well as resources for parents and other caregivers. Their youth section provides links to Anxiety 101, self-help strategies, and information for common problems like perfectionism, panic attacks, social anxiety, tolerating uncertainty, and test anxiety, to name a few.

Child and Youth Mental Health

A description of the services that our local Child and Youth Mental Health office offers

Dealing With Depression

This resource is meant to provide teens with accurate information about depression. It is not a psychological or medical treatment, and is not a replacement for treatment. It does teach teens a set of skills they can apply to help cope with depression.

Foundry

Foundry offers young people ages 12-24 health and wellness resources, services and supports – online and through integrated service centres in communities across BC.

Here to Help

Explore strategies to help you take care of your mental health and use substances in healthier ways, find the information you need to manage mental health and substance use problems, and learn how you can support a loved one.

Kelty Mental Health

We help families across the province navigate the mental health system, listen and offer peer support, and connect them to resources and tools.

Teen Mental Health

Our vision is to help improve the mental health of youth by the effective translation and transfer of scientific knowledge. Our model is to use the best scientific evidence available to develop application-ready training programs, publications, tools and resources that can be applied across disciplines to enhance the understanding of adolescent mental health and mental disorders. Links to many resources related to youth mental health

Youth In BC

YouthInBC.com is a program of the Crisis Centre. It Connects youth with support, information and resources.

SUICIDE PREVENTION AND CRISIS INTERVENTION

Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention

Help is Available! We really are here to listen, here to help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, call 1-800-784-2433 or 1-800-SUICIDE, or call your local crisis centre.

Crisis Centre BC

24/7 Distress Phone Services are free and available to 2 million people on the Lower Mainland, Sea-to-Sky corridor, Sunshine Coast and in Powell River.

Kids Help Phone

Kids Help Phone is always there for you. No matter what you want to talk about, we’re here to listen. No judgment, totally private, 24/7

Reporting Child Abuse In BC

If you think a child or youth under 19 years of age is being abused or neglected, you have the legal duty to report your concern to a child welfare worker. Phone 1 800 663-9122 at any time of the day or night.

Say Something BC

Information and resources for persons who have been or are being sexually or physically abused

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