Since 1952 the Alcohol-Drug Education Service has been a lead provider of professional drug education resources and an advocate for prevention strategies aimed at reducing substance abuse problems.

Alternate Shelter Society has been providing effective services to at risk and high - risk youth and their families since 1977. Our services range from home support to intensive treatment programs. Alternate Shelter Society provides residential and support services to a population of youth variously described as “abused,” “homeless,” “at risk,” “street-wise teens,” or “behaviourally disordered.”

The Institute's vision is of a province and a society without family violence where individuals, families and communities are caring, respectful and supportive.

A non-profit society, established to provide therapeutic services for males who have been sexually abused at some time in their lives. As specifically outlined in our constitution, our purposes are to:

• Provide treatment and support services to male survivors of sexual abuse and support for significant relatives and others of the survivors.

"We commit to Canada's young people that we will be leaders in providing them with the highestquality, volunteer based mentoring programs."

• Big Brothers and Sisters of the Okanagan
• Big Brothers and Sisters of Prince George
• Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland

Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada forms new partnership to develop leadership potential of Canadian youth.

Boys and Girls Clubs, with families and other adults, offer children and youth opportunities to develop skills, knowledge and values they seek to become fulfilled individuals. Okanagan Clubs

Bridges to the Future (Bridges) is a community-based resource developed to support any youth in B.C. between the ages of 15 and 24 with physical disabilities.
Every youth faces challenges when moving from adolescence into adulthood. Youth that have physical disabilities face increased barriers during this transition, and support systems can be numbered and daunting for youth and their families to access. Bridges was developed to close the gap between services for children with physical disabilities and services for adults with physical disabilities. Bridges transcends this division by assisting and empowering youth with necessary skills to move forward into adulthood independently as possible.

Our Purpose

To eliminate bullying in our society by supporting individuals and organizations to take positive actions against bullying through the sharing of resources, and to guide and champion them in creating non-violent solutions to the challenges and problems associated with bullying.

society in which all children and youth can:

• Learn and grow in a caring, tolerant, and violence-free environment;
• Self-advocate and apply strategies to deal with personal safety issues;
• Trust adults to believe, respect and protect them from harm;
• Respond in socially acceptable ways to situations that are potentially violent;
• Behave in responsible ways and accept the natural consequences of their own behaviour.

Mary Manning Centre is Victoria's only non-profit agency dedicated to treating child victims of sexual abuse. In addition, to prevent the sexual abuse of children and youth and to respond to the needs of children, youth and families who experience sexual abuse or who may be at risk for abuse.

Listed here are the organizations and agencies that deal with missing and abducted children in Canada.

Covenant House Vancouver exists for those young people for whom there is often no one else — young people aged 16 - 24 who have either willingly fled physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse or those who have been forced from their homes.  Each young person is treated individually and everything from their cultural and religious needs to dietary restrictions is incorporated into their care.

1134 Burrard St. Vancouver (Across from St. Paul's Hospital)

At Directions Youth Services Centre, homeless youth and youth living in at-risk situations have access to an extensive range of services designed to assist them in taking the next steps with their life—be it to return to their home or home communities, to seek and secure affordable housing, to become employable and find employment, to work towards literacy and educational goals, or to access a doctor or a nurse, addictions services and mental health counsellors. The door is always open—24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

DIVERSE city community resources society is a registered non-profit agency offering a wide range of services and programs to the immigrant and refugee communities of Surrey, Delta, White Rock and Langley. DIVERSE city community resources society is accredited by the `Council on Accreditation’ (COA) and its services are delivered through five main departments, namely:

• Family Services
• Settlement and Integration Services,
• Language Programs
• Career Services
• Interpretation and Translation Services

Delivering a wide range of vital outreach services to the street-involved people of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside." The nature of all DEYAS services is the provision of "windows of opportunity" for clients wanting to make lifestyle changes or to exit the street.

You can learn valuable information about the dangers and risks of drugs and alcohol abuse on this site. As youth, we face peer pressure and life’s pressures on a regular basis. Even though we have our own morals about how we choose to live, such as choosing to use drugs or not, we tend to feel pressure to go against our morals so we don’t “let down” our peers, or so we can “fit in”. I hope that from this website you can take away information that will help you develop and form good decisions-making skills concerning the topics of drugs and alcohol.

A drop-in centre serving street youth in the downtown south area between the hours of 7:00 pm to 5:30 am. It provides a safe, non-judgmental environment for street-involved youth, especially when other services are not available. Food, laundry, showers, counselling, and referrals to other services are provided.

At some point in life, everyone gets stuck. Since 1928, people experiencing challenges have been turning to Family Services of Greater Vancouver—a community-based not-for-profit organization providing crucial social services to children, youth, adults, and families across Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby, New Westminster, and Surrey. We offer support, provide hope, and present opportunities—helping people realize and create possibilities for themselves. All of our work is about building healthy, vibrant tomorrows.
Counselling & Support-Youth Services-Addiction Services-Community Education-Employment & Skills-Adoption Services-Employee Assistance

Our Mission:
Children and youth must receive a first call on society's resources because we value them as children and youth and because they are our future. First Call is a coalition of individuals and organizations whose purpose is to create greater understanding of and advocacy for legislation, policy, and practice to ensure that all children and youth have the opportunities and resources required to achieve their full potential and to participate in the challenges of creating a better society.  List of Coalition Partners

Feeling confused? Alone? Want information you can trust for you or someone you care about? Here you'll find quality information, personal stories of hope, and resources you can use to make better decisions about mental health or substance use issues. We're here to help.

Young people in BC can call to prevent or report incidents of youth violence or crime, or to seek assistance from local police. Parents, teachers, caregivers, service providers and others can also call for information about youth-related issues such as bullying and gangs. Funded by the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General. Hours: 24 hours, seven days a week.

BC schools are committed to ensuring schools are safe, healthy and inclusive places. Increasingly schools are seeking evidence-based programs and practices, as well as tools to evaluate the success of their efforts. To assist in these efforts, the Institute for Safe Schools (ISS) offers a resource library for interested members of the public. Additionally, we have an ambitious research and resource development commitment.

Operating since March 1999, is an early intervention, home visiting program based on the Healthy Families America Model.  It is a voluntary program that works with overburdened families who are parenting for the first time.  This program is designed to promote positive parent-child interaction, healthy childhood growth and development, and strong, healthy families.  In partnership with other community services, this program strives to offer holistic support based on the unique strengths and needs of individual families.  Service is provided to parents who are expecting or with a baby of up to 3 months of age.  Referral to Kids Count is through Public Health Nurses. 

Contact the Public Health Nurse in your area:
Kelowna:     868-7700
Rutland:       491-2768
Westbank:   768-6150

Every day, Kids Help Phone and Parent Help Line counsellors answer calls and online questions from across Canada. No matter what the problem or concern, our counsellors are there to provide immediate and caring support, informationand, if necessary, referral to a local community or social service agency.

Vancouver, Victoria, White Rock/South Surrey, Nanaimo and, Kelowna.

"These experiences are so far beyond what many of these kids ever dreamed," says Barb Radu, Founder and National Executive Director. "But are the very things that so many kids are missing -- an opportunity to have fun, spend quality time with family, mentors or peers, and just enjoy being a kid, if only for a few hours."

Since coming to BC in January of 2000, Leave Out ViolencE has been a crucial and unique resource for youth who have been victims, witnesses and/or perpetrators of violence. The goal is to provide youth a safe place where they can talk about their lives, and we can help educate each other on positive and viable alternatives to violence. At the heart of everything LOVE youth do is a commitment to voicing their views on the causes, impacts, repercussions and prevention of youth violence.

Drug Education Prevention Video for Schools: For the past 39 years, Narconon perfected its drug education delivery to ensure that our message regarding the truth about drugs did come across to kids of all ages. We give children real understanding regarding the effects of drugs so they can make the right decision when they are presented with drugs and no adults are around.
The Narconon drug rehabilitation program For adults and youth is a long term residential social educational model of rehabilitation which does not use drugs or medications to solve the problems of drugs. It is neither Medical nor Psychiatric. Narconon uses nutrition and nutritional supplements as an important part of its delivery program. No drugs are used on the treatment program. There are centers all across North America! There is NO WAITING LIST.

Our purpose is to help locate missing, lost or abducted children and adults. We work with policing agencies by passing on important information that will assist in locating missing individuals. Once NAMCA is notified that a person is missing, we gather information from the parent, guardian or police and have them sign an authorization form.

Peak House is an 8-week, co-ed residential program for youth who are ready to challenge the effects of substance misuse in their lives. It is a part of the Pacific Youth and Family Services Society, which has a mandate to support and encourage programs for youth and families.

Our mission is to identify a broad spectrum of human needs on the Semiahmoo Peninsula and beyond and respond to them in a creative, caring and fiscally responsible way. This is achieved by providing information, services, advocacy and working with other individuals, groups and organizations.   Semiahmoo House Society (Local:Surrey, BC)

PLEA was established in 1979 as a non-profit society dedicated to innovation and excellence in working with young offenders, children and young people at-risk and their families.

About us
Scouts Canada, the country’s leading youth organization, offers seven challenging programs for boys, girls and youth age 5-26 in nearly 3,600 individual groups in most cities and towns across Canada.  Over 84,000 young people enjoy Scouts Canada’s programs, which are provided by 25,000 caring and dedicated volunteers.  

The mandate is preventing child abuse and promoting healthy parent-child relationships by supporting parenting, families, and communities. This is achieved by providing support and information to parents. The goal is building healthy communities, one family at a time.

The SAS Surrey program is designed as an original self-help approach to recovery for female youth. The program provides sexually exploited females with secure housing and a lifeskills program (ASK Learning Centre). The ASK Learning Centre is designed to provide each participant with an opportunity to learn the personal and occupational skills required to help them obtain and maintain employment, return to school, and/or raise their children on a full-time basis.

"To provide and mobilize the resources needed to

strengthen families and communities."

At SHARE, we are committed to providing service to our clients that is respectful, positive, and confidential SHARE values differences and is committed to treating people fairly. We obey the Human Rights Act and work with people regardless of race, ethnicity, language, religion, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, disabilities, economic status, political affiliation or national ancestry.

One goal of AMPS was to give young teens a clearer picture about alcohol use among their peers. Teens tend to overestimate how much kids their age really drink. When they learn more accurate information, some of the pressure to drink can subside. Other goals of AMPS were to help kids learn skills to resist pressure to drink and to give them reasons not to drink.

Offers long term residential treatment for substance abusers with positive re-integration and long term success. For many years we have served this community relying on minimal support and hard work for our continued growth. Using a blend of therapies (Reality Therapy, Rational Emotive Therapy and Behavioral Therapy) coupled with active participation in a twelve step program we have been able to help men stop using drugs and return to their roles as productive members of society. Last Door Youth Program is a residential recovery center for male youth aged fourteen to eighteen years who have substance misuse problems.

Our Mission
The Lower Mainland Purpose Society is a non-profit social service agency whose mission is to deliver a continuum of social, health, educational and residential services.
These services are designed for individuals, youth and families, who are subject to personal and/or societal distress, marginalization and alienation.
Through these services the agency aims to enhance personal well-being, strengthen family functioning and increase personal responsibility, confidence and healthy decision-making. Emphasis is on a client-centered approach within a continuum of care model, which focuses on health, resiliency and resourcefulness of individuals. Services are provided in a safe and respectful environment where diversity and connection to community is valued.

To enable the children, youth & families of East Vancouver by offering them a safe & caring environment where they can gain access to programs & activities that will help them to develop & grow as individuals & a community.

Our residential treatment programs are provided as an effective alternative to boot camp for troubled teens in Canada or boarding schools for troubled teens in Canada. Venture Academy provides help for troubled teens by way of individualised professionally staffed home care environments. One home for each young person. Each therapeutic support home includes a clinical team consisting of a youth and substance use counsellor, family therapist, tutor, psychologist, clinical supervisor and medical doctor. The one-to-one therapeutic treatment model is one of the most important benefits for parents accessing our residential treatment program for troubled teens.

"Services include a toll-free, province-wide telephone service called VictimLINK. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is accessible by TTY (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf) and provides interpretation services for all the major languages spoken in British Columbia. VictimLINK operators provide information and referral services to all victims of crime and immediate crisis support to victims of family and sexual violence. VictimLINK 1-800-563-0808"

The "Buddy System" is a dynamic show for younger children featuring songs about expression of feelings, friendship skills, violence prevention, peaceful problem solving, anger management and self-esteem. It is designed to support social responsibility programs through music in a fun format. Come on in and find out more about us!

The Women's Addiction Foundation is a public foundation committed to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellness of women whose lives have been affected by their misuse of, or dependency on alcohol or other drugs.

YouthCO AIDS Society is a non-profit organization building capacity with youth between the ages of 15-29 throughout BC to reduce vulnerability to HIV, AIDS and Hepatitis C through peer support, peer education and shared leadership.
This unique position allows our peer-based education initiatives and support services to:address the underlying factors that make youth vulnerable to HIV, AIDS and Hepatitis C and assist youth in their efforts to make well-informed and safer decisions about their sexual health and substance use.

Our ministry is involved in caring in ways that are relevant to this generation. We are committed to communicating the person, work and teachings of Jesus Christ and discipling young believers into the Church in ways that are responsible, effective and culturally sensitive.

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There are always many different ways to cope with problems.
We're here to listen.
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