UBCLC Counselling Support

Learning Circle counselling and wellness support resources

Crisis support 

Support via telephone

  • KUU-US Crisis line (24 hr, toll free): 1-800-588-8717 ; Locally: Adults and Elders at 250-723-4050 ; Children and youth at 250-723-2040
  • Trans Lifeline helpline (24 hr): 1-877-565-8860
  • Crisis Centre BC (24 hr): 1-800-784-2433 
  • Crisis Services Canada (24 hr): 1-833-456-4566
  • Hope for Wellness Help Line (24 hr): 1-855-242-3310
  • 310 Mental Health Support (24 hr toll free): 310-6789
  • Tsow Tun Le Lum: Phone 1-888-403-3123 to access the following cultural supports Levi Martin, James Quatell and Mike Kelly
  • Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS): Phone 1-800-721-0066 or 604-985-4464 to access the following cultural supports: Sadie McPhee, Gertie Pierre or Yvonne Rigby Jones. Emotional mental health and counselling services will be accessible from the IRSSS Resolution Health Support Workers.
  • First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line and On-line Counselling Service: toll-free at 1-855-242-3310 or through hopeforwellness.ca
  • The Metis Crisis Line: available 24 hours a day: 1-833-638-4722

Support via online chat

Other mental health support resources (for all ages):

Other culturally safe supports:

  •  FNHA Virtual Doctor of the Day – website
  • Indian Residential School Survivors Society – website
  • Tsow-Tun Le Lum Society – website
  • FNHA Virtual Substance Use & Psychiatry Service – website

Services covered by First Nations Health Benefits:

  • Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program – 1-877-477-0775
  • Mental Health & Wellness Counselling in BC – https://www.fnha.ca/benefits/mental-health o Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Health Support Services – 1-855-550-5454
  • Suicide prevention toolkit 

Vancouver Aboriginal Health Society – ONE-TO-ONE & GROUP COUNSELLING

Schedule a talking session with an Elder or Knowledge Keeper. All scheduled appointment time frames are up to 60 minutes.

  • Chief Bill Williams, Elder and Hereditary Chief (Squamish)
  • Eugene Harry (XiQuelum), Elder and Spiritual Worker (Malahat, Cowichan, Lummi, Squamish)
  • Nina Thomas, Elder (Carrier)
  • Ruby Harry (Nunitsi), Knowledge Keeper (Tsilhqoxt’in)
  • Michael Guimond, Knowledge Keeper (Ojibway/Anishinaabe)

We can also offer smudging/brushing and prayers before, during, and after talking sessions.

Our group is culturally diverse and open to all cultures.

To book an appointment with an Elder or Knowledge Keeper:
Contact: Jackie Hans, Cultural Coordinator
Email: culturalcoordinator@vahs.life
Phone: (604) 254-9949 ext. 228

 

Indigenous Youth Resources

UBC Student Counselling resources:

Emergency Helplines

1. Kids Help Phone:    1-800-668-6868
2. Native Youth Crisis Line: .    1-800-588-8717
3. Youth In BC    youthinbc.com
4. Kids Help Phone    kidshelpphone.ca
5. Crisis Centre FNHA    1-877-209-1266
7. BC Crisis Line (Suicide)    1-800-784-2433
8. Trans Lifeline:    translifeline.org
9. Download the:    Help, Hope, Healing toolkit

Crisis support (for all ages)

Support via telephone

Support via online chat

Crisis support (for youth)

Support via telephone

Support via text

Support via online chat

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Indigenous Youth Wellness & Support

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Other mental health support resources (for all ages):

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