Mental Health / Counselling - Children / Youth Mental Health

High Risk Services provides urgent assessment and support for youth (under the age of 19) at high risk for suicide or who are experiencing high risk mental and emotional distress.more info

Victoria CYMH Intake team supports family physicians to navigate CYMH services and system. Call the intake team for consultation or fax in a referral form.more info

Resources to help youth with bipolar illness more info

South Island Child and Youth Early Psychosis Intervention (EPI) is a specialized service that provides prompt support, collaboration, education and mental health assessment to South Island children up to their 17th birthday who appear to be experiencing a decline in function and have auditory/visual hallucinations and/or delusions that may indicate early psychosis.more info

We are an interdisciplinary research group in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. We focus on improving social and emotional wellbeing for all children, and on the public policies needed to reach these goals. Our work complements the mission of the Faculty of Health Sciences to advance the health of populations locally, nationally and globally.more info

The Collaborative Psychiatric Outreach Project is a pilot project designed to improve access to child and youth psychiatry for children and youth with mental health concerns in several sub-populations of the South Island.more info

If there is an immediate mental health or substance use emergency, child and youth clients and their families can access services by visiting the hospital emergency room.more info

The Ledger Program is a resource that provides acute, in-patient, hospital based psychiatric services for children and youth from Vancouver Island. more info

The Anscomb Program supports children, youth and their families by evaluating and planning treatment for significant emotional, behavioral, psychological and psychiatric symptoms in order to increase the mental health and functioning of children and youth at home, at school and within their home community.more info

Child, Youth and Family Ambulatory Clinic at VGH or the Anscomb Program at the Queen Alexandra Centre for Children's Healthmore info