Community programs
Atlin Health Centre
164 3rd St.
Atlin, BC V0W 1A0
Phone: 250-651-7677
Fax: 250-651-7687
After hours (nurse) or emergency line: 250-651-7677
Ambulance services are also available: 250-651-7700
RCMP: 250-651-7511
Big Water Society
Operates out of the Teen Centre
Atlin, BC
Phone/Fax: 250-651-2460
Email: bigwater@bigwatersociety.org
Alcohol counselling is available at TRTFN Health Building
Phone: 250-641-7935
The Mental Health and Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with Interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Withdrawal management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Our community has a safe house
Community program
741 Centre Street
PO Box 7500
Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0
Phone: 250-692-2412
Fax: 250-692-2451
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
Community program
PO Box 148
5125 50th Street SW (across from post office)
Chetwynd, BC V0C 1J0
Phone: 250-788-7300
Fax: 250-788-9877
After hours or emergency line: 1-888-562-1214
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
- Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT)
Community program
PO Box 9
3209 Oceanview Dr.
Daajing Giids, BC V0T 1S0
Phone: 250-559-4933
Fax: 250-559-8037
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community mental health and substance use programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults with mental health and/or substance use problems.
Services include:
- Trauma-informed counselling and interventions
- Collaborative care planning and medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Care coordination with the primary health care team and outreach psychiatry
- Assessment for mental health and substance use issues
- Advocacy and referral services to outside agencies
- Life skills support and training
Island Wellness Society (for women)
204 Oceanview Dr.
Daajing Giids (formerly the Village of Queen Charlotte), BC V0T 1S0
Phone: 250-559-4743
Community program
1001 110th Avenue
Dawson Creek, BC V1G 4X3
Phone: 250-719-6525
Toll-free: 1-888-592-2711
Fax: 250-795-6232
After hours or emergency line: 1-888-562-1214
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services. Youth addictions support and referral, elderly services support, early psychosis intervention, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Community drop-in
- Short term individual psychoeducation
- Psychoeducational groups
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Education
- Harm reduction
- Psychiatric consultation - by physician referral
- Prince George Nechako Youth Treatment Program referrals can be facilitated
Inpatient and intensive services
Dawson Creek and District Hospital
11100 13th St.
Dawson Creek, BC V1G 3W8
Phone: 250-784-7369
Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Units are designated psychiatric facilities which are able to provide care to people certified under the Provincial Mental Health Act. The units offer an interprofessional team approach to care, and liaise with community services to ensure continuity of care when patients are discharge to the community.
- Dawson Creek: 15 beds
- Regional program
- Age group: 19+ (will admit youth if necessary)
- Services the NE region, resources to outlines areas
- Provides crisis stabilization, assessment, consultation and brief treatment and discharge planning
- Group work focused on Psycho-Social Rehab model
- Provides services for all psychiatric diagnosis including concurrent with addictions
- Provides the gateway for provincial tertiary services
- Admission: Via emergency dept, Mental Health and Addiction community services or physicians
Tertiary Care Program Dawson Creek
1001 110th Avenue
Dawson Creek, BC V1G 4X3
Phone: 250-719-6525
Toll-free: 1-888-592-2711
Fax: 250-719-6540
After hours or emergency line: 1-888-562-1214
Services are targeted to complex clients in the greatest need of assertive services. Clients with severe and persistent mental illnesses that seriously impair their functioning in community living (with priority given to people with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders).
- Clients who may benefit from a coordinated treatment approach that includes those with significant functional impairments as demonstrated by inability to consistently perform the range of activities of daily living for basic adult functioning in the community, inability to consistently maintain a safe living situation or inability to maintain consistent employment at a self-sustaining level.
- Clients with severe and persistent mental illness who make high use of general hospital psychiatric services and/or emergency services.
The service delivery model is client centered, recovery-oriented and provided by a group of interprofessional mental health staff. The team is mobile, delivers outreach services in community locations and operates 7 days a week, 10 hours per day.
Community program
Stikine Health Centre
Bag 2000
7171 Hwy 37
Dease Lake, BC V0C 1L0
Phone: 250-771-4444
Fax: 250-771-5026
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams. Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults with mental health and/or substance use problems.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Withdrawal management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT)
Community program
Fort Nelson Health Unit
Bag 1000
5217 Airport Drive
Fort Nelson, BC V0C 1R0
Phone: 250-774-7092
Fax: 250-774-7096
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
- Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT)
Community program
PO Box 217
140 Stuart Drive West
Fort St. James, BC V0J 1P0
Phone: 250-996-8411
Fax: 250-996-8255
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
- Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT)
Community program
10011 96th Street
Fort St John, BC V1J 3P3
Phone: 250-263-6080
Fax: 250-262-5313 or 250-263-6012
After hours or emergency line: Hospital: 250-262-5200
Crisis Line: 1-888-562-1214
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
- Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT)
Adult Addiction Day Treatment program
10011 96th Street
Fort St John, BC V1J 3P3
Phone: 250-263-6080
The Adult Addiction Day Treatment program provides a client centered approach to wellness. The program focuses on assisting individual’s to achieve greater responsibility for their individual recovery, provides access to resources for on-going support and uses the harm reduction model to promote quality health and well-being.
- Age group: 19+
- Provides a continuous intake
- Staffed with nurses and clinicians
- Provides programs for clients with addictions or concurrent issues in a group module format
- Recreational/leisure support
- Nutrition education
- Does not provide individual case management
- Works in collaboration with community partners: MHAS Case Managers, Native Friendship Centres, needle exchange programs, and community supportive recovery beds etc.
- GPs provide some client support
- No psychiatry services are available for this program at this time
Adult residential services
Adult residential services are available at a number of locations and provide a varying level of care for adults with mental health or substance use issues. Tertiary resources provide 24/7 rehabilitation and residential care for adults with severe or persistent mental illness.
Psychogeriatric tertiary residential services provide 24/7 elderly tertiary rehabilitation and residential care. In collaboration with Mental Health and Substance Use team leads, the resources are managed through a Northern Health mental health & addiction tertiary resource utilization coordinator which provides a system of bed management across Northern Health.
Peace Villa (Long-term care)
8407 112 Avenue
Fort St John, BC V1J 0J5
Phone: 250-261-7450
Fax: 250-261-7665
Peace Villa is a geriatric long-term care facility, administered through Home and Community Care. The facility has eight (8) designated mental health and addiction beds; 4 beds are designated rehabilitation, and 4 beds residential. The facility offers 24 hour staffing and a complement of interprofessional health providers.
Community program
PO Box 98
130 Chowsunket Road
Fraser Lake, BC V0J 1S0
Phone: 250-699-7742
Fax: 250-699-6987
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
Community program
#70 2506 Highway 62
Hazelton, BC V0J 1Y1
Phone: 250-842-5144
Fax: 250-842-2179
After hours or emergency line: 250-842-5211 (Wrinch Memorial Hospital)
24 hour crisis line: 1-888-562-1214
1-800-suicide: 1-800-784-2433
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8 am to 4 pm
The Mental Health and Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
- Naloxone training and Take Home Naloxone Kit distribution
- Harm reduction supplies
Community program
3202 14th St.
Houston, BC V0J 1Z0
Phone: 250-845-5964 (checked periodically throughout day)
Fax: 250-845-5970
After hours or emergency line: Houston Health Centre: 250-845-2294
24 hour crisis line: 1-888-562-1214
1-800-suicide: 1-800-784-2433
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
- Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT)
Community program
920 South Lahakas Blvd.
Kitimat, BC V8C 2S3
Phone: 250-632-3181
Fax: 250-632-7081
After hours or emergency line: 250-632-2121
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Naloxone training and Take Home Naloxone Kit distribution
- Harm reduction supplies
- Psychiatric consultation
- The Horizon House Clubhouse - PSR Centre
Opioid Agonist Treatment
- 19+
- Northern Health in collaboration with Alliance Group
- Intake with a clinician
- Monthly intake with addiction specialist physicians
- Telehealth appointments available for follow up
- Connections to other community services for immunizations and other health care needs
- Life skills support
Community program
45 Centennial Drive
Mackenzie, BC V0J 2C0
Phone: 250-997-8517
Fax: 250-997-3940
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
- Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT)
Community program
2520 Harrison Avenue
Masset, BC V0T 1M0
Phone: 250-626-4725
Fax: 250-626-4708
After hours or emergency line: Call Haida Gwaii Hospital: 250-626-4711
Masset Hospital: 250-626-4700
RCMP: 250-626-3991
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:45 pm
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community mental health & substance use programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults with mental health and/or substance use problems.
Services include:
- Trauma-informed counselling and interventions
- Collaborative care planning and medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Care coordination with the primary health care team and outreach psychiatry
- Assessment for mental health and substance use issues
- Advocacy and referral services to outside agencies
- Life skills support and training
Community program
PO Box 669
1126 5th Avenue
McBride, BC V0J 2E0
Phone: 250-569-2251 ext. 2038
Fax: 250-569-2232
After hours or emergency line: 1-888-562-1214
Hours of operation: Monday, Wednesday, every 2nd Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
Other services available in the area are:
- Robson Valley community services:
- 250-569-2266 or 250-566-9107
- After hours: 1-844-324-2004
- Employment and income assistance: 250-569-3760
Prince George offers a variety of mental health and programs that span the continuum of care, from youth, to adult, to elderly services.
Community programs
Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
Nechako Centre
1308 Alward Street – 2nd floor
Prince George, BC V2M 7B1
Phone: 250-565-7393
Fax: 250-649-7219
Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment Unit (APAU)
University Hospital of Northern British Columbia
1475 Edmonton Street – 3rd floor
Prince George, BC V2M 1S2
Phone: 250-565-2575
Fax: 250-565-2661
Adult Addiction Day Treatment program
Northern Interior Health Unit
1444 Edmonton Street - 3rd floor
Prince George, BC V2M 6W5
Phone: 250-645-7776
Fax: 250-645-7943
Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Unit (PIU)
University Hospital of Northern British Columbia
1475 Edmonton Street – 3rd floor
Prince George, BC V2M 1S2
Phone: 250-645-7777
Fax: 250-645-8049
Adult Withdrawal Management Unit (AWMU, aka Detox)
1308 Alward Street
Prince George, BC V2M 7B1
Toll-free Phone: 1-877-565-2175
Phone: 250-645-7420
Fax: 250-565-2883
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
#201 1705 3rd Avenue
Prince George, BC V2L 3G7
Phone: 250-645-3845
Fax: 250-645-8093
Community Acute Stabilization Team (CAST)
Northern Interior Health Unit – 3rd floor
1444 Edmonton Street
Prince George, BC V2M 6W5
Phone: 250-645-7740
Fax: 250-645-7943
Community Outreach and Assertive Services Team (COAST)
Northern Interior Health Unit – 3rd floor
1444 Edmonton Street
Prince George, BC V2M 6W5
Phone: 250-645-7730
Fax: 250-645-8049
Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH)
Highland Health and Family Development Centre
155 McDermid Drive
Prince George, BC V2M 4T8
Phone: 250-645-3712
Fax: 250-645-7983
Eating Disorder Clinic (EDC)
Nechako Centre
1308 Alward Street – 2nd floor
Prince George, BC V2M 7B1
Phone: 250-645-7440
Fax: 250-645-8039
Early Psychosis Intervention (EPI)
Nechako Centre
1308 Alward Street – 2nd floor
Prince George, BC V2M 7B1
Phone: 250-645-7430
Fax: 250-645-8039
Elderly services
UHNBC
1475 Edmonton Street
Prince George, BC V2M 1S2
Phone: 250-565-5704
Fax: 250-565-5607
Methadone program
Nechako Center
1308 Alward Street
Prince George, BC V2M 1S2
Phone: 250-645-7400
Fax: 250-565-2883
Needle Exchange OAT Clinic
Phone: 250-645-3811
Opioid Substitution Treatment program
Phone: 250-645-7400
Youth Treatment Center Mental Health and Addictions
1308 Alward Street
Prince George, BC V2M 7B1
Phone: 250-645-7410
Fax: 250-645-8031
Youth Community Outpatient service
1308 Alward Street – 2nd floor
Prince George, BC V2M 7B1
Phone: 250-645-7430
Fax: 250-645-8039
Adult residential services
Adult residential services are available at a number of locations and provide a varying level of care for adults with mental health and/or substance use issues.
Community program
Prince Rupert Health Unit
300 3rd Avenue West
Prince Rupert, BC V8J 1L4
Phone: 250-622-6380
Fax: 250-622-6319
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
Adult Addiction Day Treatment program
Prince Rupert Regional Hospital
300 - 3rd Avenue West
Prince Rupert, BC V8J 1L4
The Adult Addiction Day Treatment program provides a client centered approach to wellness. The program focuses on assisting individual’s to achieve greater responsibility for their individual recovery, provides access to resources for on-going support and uses the harm reduction model to promote quality health and well-being.
- 19+
- Provides a continuous intake
- Staffed with nurses and clinicians
- Provides programs for clients with addictions or concurrent issues in a group module format
- Recreational/leisure support
- Nutrition education
- Does not provide individual case management
- Works in collaboration with community partners: MHAS Case Managers, Native Friendship Centres, needle exchange programs, and Community Supportive Recovery beds etc.
- GP’s provide some client support (sessional time)
- Psychiatric consults
Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT) clinic
- 19+
- Northern Health in collaboration with Alliance Group
- Intake with a clinician
- Monthly intake with addiction specialist physicians
- Telehealth appointments available for follow up
- Contact info: 250-622-6380
Prince Rupert Specialized Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU) Outreach
Prince Rupert Health Unit
300 – 3rd Avenue West
Prince Rupert, BC V8J 1L4
Phone: 778-884-0262
Fax: 250-622-6319
Email: PrinceRupertOutreach@northernhealth.ca
Prince Rupert Specialized MHSU Outreach team works to build relationships and support people along the continuum of care – providing transitional support to accessing Northern Health Community Services or other agencies, as appropriate. People supported by this service are adults experiencing problematic substance use and/or mental illness facing complex challenges related to health, housing, poverty, and face barriers to accessing health and social services. Case management services are offered via assertive community outreach.
Services:
- Case management
- Drug checking: Fentanyl test strips, FTIR sample collection
- Harm reduction: Supplies, Naloxone training and distribution, education
- Outreach nursing: Wound care, mental health medications
- SMART Pathways to Recovery program
- Treatment planning
- Wrap-around short-term transitional support
Referral process:
- Phone, email, fax or in-person
- Referrals followed up on within 72 hours
Prince Rupert Early Psychosis Intervention Team
Prince Rupert Health Unit
300 – 3rd Avenue West
Prince Rupert, BC V8J 1L4
Phone: 778-884-6804
Fax: 250-622-6319
Prince Rupert Early Psychosis Intervention Program (EPI) supports clients who are experiencing their first psychotic episode, or those who may have had previous psychosis, but where the first episode was less than five years ago, and who have not previously had prolonged periods of adequate treatment. The team consists of local staff who provide therapy and case management who can virtually connect clients to a larger, interprofessional EPI team in Prince George. Prince Rupert EPI also refers clients to other appropriate services and resources within Prince Rupert. The service can also support clients in other local communities, and provide consultative support throughout the Northwest.
Services:
- Case management
- Psychoeducation
- Group supports, including: Psychoeducation group, cognitive remediation therapy, meta-cognitive therapy, family education group, and family support group
- Treatment planning
- Therapy for psychosis
- Support for families and care givers
- Virtual supports from Prince George team, including: psychiatry, psychology, occupational therapy, clinical nurse educator, and family therapist
Referral process:
- Phone, fax or in-person
- Referrals followed up on within 72 hours
Community programs
GR Baker Memorial Hospital
543 Front Street - 2nd floor
Quesnel, BC V2J 2K7
Phone: 250-983-6828
Fax: 250-983-6825
Westside
395 Elliott Street
Quesnel, BC V2J 1Y4
Phone: 250-992-5189
Fax: 250-985-5833
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
- Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT)
Grace Young Wellness Centre - (Referral based program)
395 Elliott Street
Quesnel, BC V2J 1Y4
Phone: 250-985-5824
Fax: 250-985-5833
Offers a variety of leisure, recreational, social and employment opportunities.
Referrals are forwarded by mental health and addiction clinicians to the centre.
Provides methadone treatment services to individuals with drug dependency. Offers individual counseling, education, support, and methadone treatment interdisciplinary case management.
- Age group: 19 years of age and up
Inpatient and intensive services
QUESST (Quesnel Unit Emergency Short Stay Treatment)
543 Front Street
Quesnel, BC V2J 2K7
Phone: 250-985-5608
Offers short term assessment and stabilization for people who do not require a designated facility but need a more intensive service than can be offered in a community setting.
- 5 beds, plus one observation room
- Age group: 19 years and up (will admit youth if necessary)
- Services the NH region, resources to outlining areas
- Provides crisis stabilization, assessment, consultation and brief treatment and discharge planning
- Group work focused on Psycho-Social Rehab model
- Provides services for all psychiatric diagnosis including concurrent with addictions
- Provides the gateway for provincial tertiary services
- Admission: Via emergency dept, mental health and addiction community services or physicians
Community program
3793 Alfred Ave – 2nd floor
Smithers, BC V0J 2N0
Phone: 250-847-6405
Fax: 250-847-5993
After hours or emergency line: 250-847-2611 (Bulkley Valley District Hospital)
24 hour crisis line: 1-888-562-1214
1-800-suicide: 1-800-784-2433
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
The Mental Health and Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Crisis response
- Short term Counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Community life skills support psychological rehabilitation
- Medication management and Plan G support
- Psycho-educational groups
- Psychiatric consultation
Healthy Living Center (Mondays)
1070 Main Street
Smithers, BC V0J 2N0
Opioid substitution outpatient treatment program - OSTOP
Provides methadone treatment services to individuals with drug dependency. Offers individual counselling, education, support, and methadone treatment interdisciplinary case management.
- Age group: 19+
Smithers Specialized Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU) Outreach
Turning Points NW
3862 A Broadway Ave
Smithers, BC V0J2N0
Phone: 250-847-0203
Fax: 250-847-8719
Email: SmithersOutreach@northernhealth.ca
Smithers Specialized MHSU Outreach team works to build relationships and support people along the continuum of care – providing transitional support to accessing Northern Health Community Services or other agencies, as appropriate. People supported by this service are adults experiencing problematic substance use and/or mental illness facing complex challenges related to health, housing, poverty, and face barriers to accessing health and social services. Case management services are offered via assertive community outreach.
Services:
- Case management
- Treatment planning
- Complex care housing initiative
- Harm reduction: Supplies, Naloxone training and distribution, education
- Drug checking: Fentanyl test strips, FTIR sample collection
- Outreach nursing: wound care, mental health medications
- Episodic overdose prevention
- Wrap-around short-term transitional support
- SMART Pathways to Recovery program
Referral process:
- Phone, email, fax or in-person
- Referrals followed up on within 72 hours
Smithers Early Psychosis Intervention Team
Smithers Health Unit
2nd Floor, 3793 Alfred Ave
Smithers, BC V0J 2N0
Phone: 250-876-8213
Fax: 250-847-5908
Smithers Early Psychosis Intervention Program (EPI) supports clients who are experiencing their first psychotic episode, or those who may have had previous psychosis, but where the first episode was less than five years ago, and who have not previously had prolonged periods of adequate treatment. The team consists of local staff who provide therapy and case management and who can virtually connect clients to a larger, interprofessional EPI team in Prince George. Smithers EPI also refers clients to other appropriate services and resources within Smithers. The service can also support clients in other local communities, including Telkwa, Houston, and Hazelton, and provide consultative support throughout the Northwest.
Services:
- Case management
- Group supports, including: psychoeducation group, cognitive remediation therapy, meta-cognitive therapy, family education group, and family support group
- Psychoeducation
- Support for families and care givers
- Treatment planning
- Therapy for psychosis
- Virtual supports from Prince George team, including: psychiatry, psychology, occupational therapy, clinical nurse educator, and family therapist
Referral process:
- Phone, fax or in-person
- Referrals followed up on within 72 hours
Adult residential services
Adult residential services are available at a number of locations and provide a varying level of care for adults with mental health or substance use issues.
Tertiary resources provide 24/7 rehabilitation and residential care for adults with severe or persistent mental illness. Psychogeriatric tertiary residential services provide 24/7 elderly tertiary rehabilitation and residential care.
In collaboration with Mental Health & Addiction team leads, the resources are managed through a Northern Health mental health and addiction tertiary resource utilization coordinator which provides a system of bed management across Northern Health.
Bulkley Lodge
Bag 5000
3793 Alfred Ave
Smithers, BC V0J 2N0
Phone: 250-847-4443
Fax: 250-847-3895
Bulkley Lodge is a long-term geriatric care facility administered through Home and Community Care. The facility has fourteen (14) designated mental health and addiction beds; 10 beds are designated rehabilitation, and 4 beds residential.
The facility offers 24 hour staffing and a complement of interprofessional health providers.
Community program
PO Box 8
904 Brightwell Street
Stewart, BC V0T 1W0
Phone: 250-631-4202
Fax: 250-631-4282
Stewart Health Centre
Phone: 250-636-2221
Fax: 250-636-2715
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
Community programs
3412 Kalum St
Terrace, BC V8G 0G5
Phone: 250-631-4202
Fax: 250-638-2342
After hours or emergency line: 250-638-4082
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups: CBT, emotional regulation, self esteem and assertiveness, CBT groups for those with a chronic disease
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
Adult Day Treatment Program (ADTP)
Terrace Health Unit - 3412 Kalum St
Terrace, BC V8G 4T2
Phone: 250-615-2418
Email: TerraceADTP@northernhealth.ca
The Adult Day Treatment Program (ADTP) is a structured, 6 week, group-based program for adults who have recently adopted abstinence or a reduction in their substance use. We understand that recovery looks different for everyone and aim to offer a program that addresses the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual components of wellness and recovery. We welcome new individuals every week.
- Age group: 19+
- Self-referral welcome. Please call 250-615-2418 or drop-in to mental health and substance use (at the health unit) to provide your self-referral. We will contact you for an intake.
- We discuss a variety of topics including stress management, boundaries, anger management, nutrition, mental health 101, coping skills, connection to culture and self-identity, relapse prevention, and more. Each daily topic links to our weekly themes of mental health, emotional health, relationships, physical health, spiritual health, and self-care.
Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT)
102 4450 Greig Ave
Terrace, BC V8G 1M3
Phone: 250-631-7145 (OAT nurse coordinator)
Hours of operation:
Monday: 1 pm to 4 pm
Tuesday: 10 am to 11:30 am and 1 pm to 4 pm
Wednesday: 10 am to 11:30 am and 1 pm to 4 pm
Thursday: 1 pm to 4 pm
Opioid use disorder is an addiction to opioids like oxycodone, heroin, and fentanyl, and can be hard to overcome on your own. There's a selection of medications used to treat opioid addiction and we call this treatment opioid agonist treatment (OAT). The Terrace OAT program has nurses, doctors, and administrative support trained and specialized in opioid use disorder and medication treatment options. The team works with you, your pharmacist, and other supports you would like involved, to support your treatment and recovery goals. To access the program, call the OAT nurse coordinator from Monday to Friday, 9 am to 4 pm (except holidays) or drop-in during clinic hours.
Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Units
Ksyen Regional Hospital
2800 Tetrault Street
Terrace, BC V8G 2W8
Charge Nurse: 250-638-4082
Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Units are designated psychiatric facilities which are able to provide care to people certified under the Provincial Mental Health Act. The units offer an interprofessional team approach to care, and liaise with community services to ensure continuity of care when patients are discharge to the community.
- Terrace: 20 beds
- Regional programs
- Age group: 19+ (will admit youth if necessary)
- Services the NH region, resources to outlines areas
- Provides crisis stabilization, assessment, consultation and brief treatment and discharge planning
- Group work focused on Psycho-Social Rehab model
- Provides services for all psychiatric diagnosis including concurrent with addictions
- Provides the gateway for provincial tertiary services
- Admission: Via emergency dept, mental health and addiction community services or physicians
Adult rehabilitation and recovery services
Adult rehabilitation and recovery services are available at a number of locations and provide a varying level of care for adults with mental health or substance use issues.
Tertiary resources provide 24/7 rehabilitation and recovery services for adults with severe or persistent mental illness. Psychogeriatric tertiary residential services provide 24/7 elderly tertiary rehabilitation and residential care.
In collaboration with Mental Health & Addiction team leads, the resources are managed through a Northern Health mental health and addiction tertiary resource utilization coordinator which provides a system of bed management across Northern Health.
Birchwood Place
3183 Kofoed Drive
Terrace, BC V8G 3P8
Phone: 250-635-2171
Fax: 250-635-7057
After hours or emergency line: 250-635-2171
- Terrace: 8 beds
- Age group: Adults 19 years and older
- Provides short term stays, for up to a maximum of 8 weeks, providing the opportunity to enhance the skills necessary to live independently in the community
- The team works in collaboration with the individual and their identified support system
Referral process
- Referral is completed by the individual’s clinician or equivalent
- Referral can begin by contacting:
Clinical lead – Phone: 250-631-4126 or
Team leader – Phone: 250-631-4127
Seven Sisters and Birchwood work within a framework of recovery oriented guidelines and psychosocial rehabilitation principles and values. We believe that recovery is the personal process that people with mental health conditions experience in gaining control, meaning and purpose in their lives. Recovery involves different things for different people.
Seven Sisters: Rehabilitation and Recovery program
2711 Tetrault St
Terrace, BC V8G 2W6
Phone: 250-631-4121
Fax: 250-631-4129
- Terrace: 25 beds
- Age group: Adults 19 years and older
- Provides longer term stabilization, treatment and recovery programing for individuals living with serious and persistent mental illness
- The program supports an individual’s needs that are beyond what can be supported by community-based services
Referral process
All referrals are screened by the Regional Tertiary Utilization Committee (RTUC). The RTUC determines the suitability and appropriateness of the referral as well as program matching. The RTUC also manages wait list priority sequencing. Please contact the regional tertiary utilization coordinator at 250-645-6088 for more information.
For some, recovery means the complete absence of the symptoms of mental illness. For others, recovery means living a full life in the community while learning to live with ongoing symptoms. Psychosocial rehabilitation services and supports are collaborative, person directed, and individualized. We focus on working alongside individuals to develop skills to access resources needed to live their best life, including life skills, work, learning, wellness, leisure and community participation.
Terrace Specialized Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU) Outreach
Stepping Stones Building
101 4450 Greig Ave
Terrace BC, V8G 1M3
Phone: 250-631-4647
Fax: 250-635-0020
Email: TER.MHSU.Outreach@northernhealth.ca
Terrace Specialized MHSU Outreach team works to build relationships and support people along the continuum of care – providing transitional support to accessing Northern Health Community Services or other agencies, as appropriate. People supported by this service are adults experiencing problematic substance use and/or mental illness facing complex challenges related to health, housing, poverty, and face barriers to accessing health and social services. Case management services are offered via assertive community outreach.
Services:
- Case management
- Treatment planning
- Complex care housing initiative
- Harm reduction: Supplies, Naloxone training and distribution, education
- Drug checking: Fentanyl test strips, FTIR testing site and sample collection
- Outreach nursing: Wound care, mental health medications
- Episodic overdose prevention and overdose prevention
- Wrap-around short-term transitional support
- SMART Pathways to Recovery program
- Specialized response service alongside emergency services (RCMP, ambulance)
Referral process:
- Phone, email, fax or in-person
- Referrals followed up on within 72 hours
Terrace Early Psychosis Intervention Team
Terrace Health Unit
3412 Kalum Street
Terrace, BC V8G 4T2
Phone: 250-615-9502
Fax: 250-638-2251
Terrace Early Psychosis Intervention Program (EPI) supports clients who are experiencing their first psychotic episode, or those who may have had previous psychosis, but where the first episode was less than five years ago, and who have not previously had prolonged periods of adequate treatment. The team consists of local staff in Terrace who provide therapy and case management and who can virtually connect clients to a larger, interprofessional EPI team in Prince George. Terrace EPI also refers clients to other appropriate services and resources within Terrace. The service can also support clients in other local communities, including Kitimat, and provide consultative support throughout the Northwest.
Services:
- Case management
- Group supports, including: Psychoeducation group, cognitive remediation therapy, meta-cognitive therapy, family education group, and family support group
- Life skills support
- Psychoeducation
- Support for families and care givers
- Therapy for psychosis
- Treatment planning
- Virtual supports from Prince George team, including: psychiatry, psychology, occupational therapy, clinical nurse educator, and family therapist
Referral process:
- Phone, fax or in-person
- Referrals followed up on within 72 hours
Terrace Youth Substance Use Day Treatment Program
Terrace Health Unit
3412 Kalum Street
Terrace, BC V8G 4T2
Phone: 250-631-7483
Fax: 250-638-2251
Email: TerraceYDTP@northernhealth.ca
Terrace Youth Substance Use Day Treatment Program (YSUDTP) supports clients, aged 12 to 18, who have a goal to reduce or abstain from substances. It is a 6-week, structured, group-based program, that runs 4 days a week for 2 hours a day. This allows the group to provide comprehensive substance use treatment to youth without requiring them to leave their home community. YSUDTP promotes wellness and skill development to work on substance use concerns through education, recreation, and connecting with others.
Services:
- Intake screening and individualized supports to promote group readiness
- Structured substance use education and treatment groups
- Referral to other supports as appropriate
- YSUDTP can be used as stand-alone treatment, or as additional treatment prior to and/or after residential treatment programs
Referral process:
- Phone, email, fax or in-person
- Referrals followed up on within 72 hours
Community program
PO Box 1205
220 Front Street
Tumbler Ridge, BC V0C 2W0
Phone: 250-242-5271
Fax: 250-242-3595
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
Community program
1445 5th Ave
Valemount, BC V0E 2Z0
Phone: 250-566-9898
Fax: 250-566-9756
After hours or emergency line: 1-888-562-1214
Hours of operation: Tuesday, Thursday, every 2nd Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
- Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT)
Other services available in the area are:
- Robson Valley community services:
- 250-569-2266 or 250-566-9107
- After hours: 1-844-324-2004
- Employment and income assistance: 250-569-3760
Community program
3299 Hospital Road
Vanderhoof, BC V0J 3A2
Phone: 250-567-6900
Fax: 250-567-6170
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams, as well as some specialty services, i.e. Developmental Disabilities Mental Health (DDMH), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), etc. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, eating disorders, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community programs.
Community programs provide assessment, treatment and referrals for adults.
Services include:
- Intake
- Crisis response
- Short term counselling (individual, family, group)
- Longer term case management
- Provides life skills support for activities of daily living
- Medication management
- Psycho-educational groups
- Education
- Psychiatric consultation
- Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT)