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
Red Fish Healing Centre introduces transcranial magnetic stimulation to support innovative substance use treatment
Red Fish Healing Centre for Mental Health and Addiction is the first facility in BC’s public health care system to offer transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment option for clients with substance use disorder.
New beds improve care for incarcerated people with mental-health, addiction issues
Ten new beds will be available at the designated mental-health unit at Surrey Pretrial Services Centre.
BCMHSUS leading the way in concurrent disorders education
BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services is hosting the fifth annual B.C. Concurrent Disorders Conference on April 10 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
BCMHSUS & BC Mental Health Foundation: Working for Better Health
The BC Mental Health Foundation is making critical contributions to BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services to help drive improvements in mental health and substance use care in our province.