qathet mental health and substance use services

qathet Mental Health and Substance Use Services Central Intake

Get started here. Walk in or call for non-emergency mental health and/or substance use intake from Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to get started. Intake offers information and helps connect you to the service that will best meet your needs.

Adult Community Support Services

Serves adults aged 19+ with a variety of diagnoses of a serious and persistent mental disorder including; schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, chronic and severe depression, that require ongoing support. Self-referrals and referrals accepted.

Lighthouse Virtual Substance Use Care Clinic

A free virtual clinic that uses telephone appointments to provide medical treatment and short-term stabilization for people who use substances.

Harm Reduction Supplies & Needle Distribution Site

Drop-in. Provides needle exchange services for anyone wanting to dispose of used needles safely and legally.

Intensive Case Management (ICM) Team

Provides a support role for adults who experience severe substance use challenges, chronic unmet medical needs, and multiple barriers to accessing services. Self-referrals and referrals accepted.

Older Adult Mental Health Program

Provides referral, assessment and psychiatric consultation for people 65 and older who have an age-related mental condition such as dementia, memory impairment and depression.

Overdose Outreach Team

Provides service navigation and linkage to health and social services including substance use treatment for people who have recently experienced an opioid overdose and/or are at high risk for opioid overdose.

Psychiatric Inpatient Services

Psychiatric inpatient services provide assessment and treatment to adults aged 17 or older who require acute 24-hour management in a hospital setting.

Withdrawal Management

Adult withdrawal management services, also known as detox, provide nursing care and physician support for a safe, supportive environment for people experiencing acute withdrawal from substances. Self-referrals accepted.

Youth Intensive Case Management Team (YICMT)

Referral needed. Provides services to youth and young adults aged 12 to 24 years old with a primary substance use disorder and provides case management, nursing care and clinical counselling support.

LIFT Community Services

Focuses on helping all people thrive in the qathet region by reducing social inequities and by providing support and advocacy for anyone who needs it. Services include overdose prevention services and drug checking services at the Powell River Community Resource Centre and others.

B.C. Child and Youth Mental Health Intake Clinics

Babies Open New Doors (BOND) - LIFT

BOND is a Canadian prenatal nutrition program that provides nutritional counselling and promotes positive lifestyle choices to pregnant people and new parents in the qathet Region.

Four Tides Hospice Society

A registered charity that provides end-of-life and bereavement support to those in the qathet Regional District, including Tla’amin and Texada Island.

Miklat Recovery Society

A non-profit registered charity providing a cost-effective residential program designed to offer hope, inspiration and practical tools to men with the desire to stop using drugs and alcohol

Powell River Community Services Association

Provides specialized victim support services, poverty law advocate services and police-based victim support services.

Tla'amin Health

Tla’amin Health provides a full range of primary, secondary, and tertiary health services.

Trans qathet: Alliance for Gender Diversity & Support

Provides peer-to-peer support in the qathet Regional District for gender-diverse and trans people, and their allies.

qathet Safe

Victim services in Powell River

Youth and Family Powell River

Provides programs and support services for young people from birth to 19 years of age, and their families.