Skip to main content

Other BC Mental Health & Substance Use Resources

Our services are for people with complex mental illness and addictions. If you live in B.C. and you're looking for help with general or less severe mental health and substance use issues, these resources may help.

BC Partners for Mental Health and Substance Use Information

The BC Partners for Mental Health and Substance Use Information is a coalition of seven non-profit organizations stewarded by BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services. The BC Partners work together to promote mental health literacy and decrease stigma related to mental health and substance use across the province.

For more information on these organizations, visit the BC Partners section of our website.

BC Partners

Legal assistance

The Community Legal Assistance Society provides legal services to people in B.C. who are marginalized. The society provides representation at BC Review Board hearings for people who are receiving treatment at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, as well as independent legal information for people receiving involuntary treatment under B.C.'s Mental Health Act.

Mental health and substance use literacy resources

For information and resources on mental health and substance use literacy, visit our mental health promotion and literacy section.

Other resources

Here to Help

A joint project of the BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions, HeretoHelp provides information and resources in B.C. to help people manage their mental health and substance use. Through this resource, family members can learn more about these conditions as well as how to support a loved one with mental health or addiction issues.

Kelty Resource Centre

The Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre provides mental health and substance use information, resources, and peer support to children, youth and their families from across B.C. They also provide peer support to people of all ages with eating disorders. All of their services are free of charge. Contact them by phone, in person, or by email.

Foundrybc.ca

Foundrybc.ca is a website that provides young people and their families information on mental health and well-being, substance use, social support and services, navigation assistance and self-management.

Toward the Heart

Toward the Heart is a provincial harm reduction program of the BC Centre for Disease Control.

Other PHSA services

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority. For other mental health and substance use services at PHSA, visit our services.

Other health authorities in B.C.

If you're looking for community-based treatment options for a mental illness or addiction, visit a doctor or contact your local health authority.

Vancouver Coastal Health

General inquiries: (604) 736-2033
Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 
1 (866) 884-0888 (Toll-free if you live outside the Lower Mainland)

Fraser Health Authority

General inquiries: 1-877-935-5669 (toll-free), 604-587-4600 (local)

Island Health Authority

250-370-8699

Interior Health Authority

General inquiries: 250-469-7070

Northern Health Authority

Regional office: 250-565-2649

Providence Health Care

General inquiries:
Phone: 604-806-9090
Email: communications@providencehealth.bc.ca

First Nations Health Authority

General inquiries:
Phone: 604-693-6500
Toll free: 1-866-913-0033


SOURCE: Other BC Mental Health & Substance Use Resources ( )
Page printed: . Unofficial document if printed. Please refer to SOURCE for latest information.

Copyright © BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services. All Rights Reserved.

    Copyright © 2024 Provincial Health Services Authority.