Substance use

Our substance use services support everyone living or staying in the Vancouver Coastal Health region

• Pregnant people who use substances

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  • Sheway (Vancouver) : Sheway's Program Model is based on the recognition that the health of women and their children is linked to the conditions of their lives and their ability to influence these conditions. Services are provided in response to the needs of pregnant and parenting women.
  • Indigenous Health Outreach (IHO): IHO includes an Outreach Doula service which provides perinatal outreach care (Vancouver).
  • Overdose Outreach Team (VCH region-wide): Connecting birthers to support who have recently experienced an opioid overdose and/or who are at high risk for opioid overdose. Serving the qathet region, Whistler, Pemberton, Squamish, Lower Sunshine Coast, Vancouver and the North Shore
  • Early Years Public Health Nursing Team (VCH region-wide) 

  Other services in the region include BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre  for families in recovery (FIR) (Provincial access, based in Vancouver) and  St. Paul’s Hospital Maternity in Vancouver. 

• 2SLGBTQIA+ people who use substances 

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  • Vancouver Addiction Matrix Program (VAMP):VAMP is a 12-week outpatient group. VAMP is open to adults aged 18 and over living in Vancouver who are experiencing challenges with substance use. There are 2 streams; one for all-gender and one for gay, bisexual, queer and trans men.  

  Other services include HIM and VCH Trans Speciality Care (Vancouver). 

• Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deaf-Blind 

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  The VCH Deaf Well-Bring Programoffers services to the deaf, hard of hearing and deaf-blind community. Their website lists their services which includes substance use support services.

• Indigenous people who use substances

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  • Indigenous Health Outreach (IHO): supports unhoused or precariously housed people in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) community in Vancouver with complex mental health and/or substance use challenges and connects them to cultural supports and health service.
  • Indigenous Crisis Response Team (Vancouver): provides same-day mobile mental health and wellness crisis response services for people who may be experiencing or nearing a mental health crisis and who may or may not actively use substances.
  • Indigenous Youth Outreach (Vancouver): Provides outreach services specific to Indigenous Youth through Indigenous Health Outreach for unhoused or precariously housed people in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) community in Vancouver with complex mental health and/or substance use challenges and connects them to cultural supports and health services 

• People who use methamphetamine

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  • Goal Getters, part of Substance use services at Three Bridges Community Health Centre, supports people trying to change their meth use. (Vancouver) See the Three Bridges Substance use services calendar. 

• Women who use substances

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  • Sisters Together in Active Recovery (STAR) (Vancouver): STAR offers free group and short-term counselling options for women having problems related to the use of drugs or alcohol.