BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services
Culturally safe care
Culturally safe care for Indigenous clients, patients and families
We support clients, patients, and their families who identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, or Métis).
Collaboration
Patient experience & community engagement
There are 127 lived experience partners in the Patient and Family Partner Network.
Meaningful work. Fulfilling careers.
Careers with BCMHSUS
Learning
A new kind of platform, the Centre for Learning is an online hub offering emerging knowledge, best practices, evidence-based learning and other resources related to complex mental health and substance use issues.
Featured news
Bringing more coordination to PHSA’s response to the toxic drug crisis
For her entire career, Kacey Dalzell has been passionate about helping people who have mental health and substance use concerns.
BCMHSUS is attracting passionate team members who value inclusivity and authenticity
Talent Acquisition Marketing, Sanya’k̓ula and BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services teams, including Indigenous Health and Cultural Safety, partner to create new recruitment tools and careers campaign content.
More than meets the eye
Kelly Soros is an Indigenous woman and emergency physician. She is also the loving sister of Jake, who was incarcerated. Kelly shares her experience in an animated video series from BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services and Emily Carr University.
What is life like during treatment at Heartwood? There’s an app for that
Heartwood Centre for Women worked with program alumni, staff, health authority liaisons, and community partners to develop a new pre-admission app to better support clients.