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Wellness Resources
Being a student and dealing with life can get difficult at times, the Douglas Students’ Union can help you connect to additional support, information and wellness resources.
Check out the links below for off campus and on campus wellness information and resources:
Off Campus:
- Here2Talk, a free mental health resource for post-secondary students created by the provincial government. Here2Talk connects students with mental health support when they need it. Through this program, all students currently registered in a B.C. post-secondary institution have access to free, confidential counselling and community referral services, conveniently available 24/7 via app, phone and web.
- Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)
- CMHA Suicide Crisis Hotline – call or text 9-8-8
A safe space to talk, 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
- Foundry offers health and wellness resources, services and supports:
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Crisis Centre – Emotional Support, Crisis Response and Suicide Safety – free, confidential and low barrier24/7 phone support:
- 1800-SUICDE (1-800-784-2433)
- 310-6789 (no area code)
- conveniently available 24/7 via app, phone and web.
On Campus:
- Douglas College Counselling Information at
- Douglas Students’ Union Therapy Dog Days – Watch out on our social Media for the dates every semester!
We’ve put together some additional resources to help you, especially when our offices are closed (weekends, over the winter break or other holiday office closures). These include community food banks, low-cost grocery stores, and mental health supports. Check them out here: Additional Wellness Resources
Here are some community based resources for members who identify with our constituency groups and collectives on campus:
PRIDE COLLECTIVE:
- Qmunity: Counselling
- Qmunity: Peer Support Groups
- Qmunity: Mental Health Hub
- VCH Three Bridges Community Health Centre: Low barrier, confidential medical clinic for youth under 24 living in downtown Vancouver with mental health, addiction, gender identity or financial issues. Includes sexual health services, counselling and referrals to specialists.
- HIM Mental Health Services: Mental health services for LGBTQ+ men
- Sher Vancouver: A non-profit society for LGBTQ South Asians offering individual counselling with a Registered Clinical Counsellor on a sliding scale basis.
- Square Peg Therapy: A Registered Counsellor specializing in LGBTQ+ services, expressive arts and narrative therapy.
- Dragon Stone Counselling: Individual, relationship and family counselling for clients of all ages and genders.
- Trans Health & Wellness Trans care BC
- Trans Care Primary Care Tool kit
- Catherine White Holman Wellness Centre: Low barrier services for transgender and gender non-conforming people provided by doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, nutritionists, counsellors and lawyers.
- VCH Trans Specialty Care: Call to schedule an intake appointment with a nurse to discuss treatment and referral options. Youth ages 15-24 given special consideration.
- Trans Rights BC: Human rights information relevant to trans and gender-diverse individuals in BC. Understand your rights in contexts of education, public services, housing, employment, healthcare, the justice system, immigration and more. Find tips on making human rights complaints and self-advocacy plans.
Indigenous COLLECTIVE:
Mental Wellness Organizations:
- Thunderbird Partnership Foundation
- We Matter Campaign tool Kit
- First Nations Health Authority: Wellness: Tips, guides and resources
- Nurturing Spirit
Helplines:
- National Indian Residential Schools Crisis line: available to former students of Indian Residential Schools and their family members 24/7 at 1-866-925-4419
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Crisis Line: available 24/7 at 1-844-413-6649
- Friendship Centers: Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Center: Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre
- Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society
Women’s COLLECTIVE:
- Family Start for mental health and wellness information, peer support and other resources for parents/care providers
- Surrey Women’s Centre
- Westminster House: Drug & Addiction Support
- Womens Health Resource Centre
- Women’s Mental Health Counselling: support for all of life’s challenges. Low cost counselling available.
- Women’s Mental Health Support groups
- Heretohelp
- Atira Women’s Society: Health & Wellbeing programs
- Women’s Place
- Ending Violence Support Programs
Accessibility COLLECTIVE:
- LifeAt: Online software that helps people manage focus and productivity while studying or working through pomodoro timers, task managers, and ambient noise
- Medito: A free-to-use app offering sounds, stories, and meditations for sleep, anxiety, stress, and more
- Vancouver Community Rehabilitation and Resource Team
- Transition Planning for Youth and Young Adults
- Supports and Services for people with disabilities
- Understood.org: Information and resources on ADHD and other learning and thinking differences
- Disability Alliance BC
- BC Autism Assessment Network: Information, resources, to connect children, youth and their families to autism and complex developmental behaviour
- Kelty Mental Health: explains the mind-body connection and what it can mean for mental health and wellness challenges
- Access and Assessment Centre
- eMENTAL HEALTH: An online resource with information on different mental health problems including an information sheet and a search tool to find local therapists and resources in your community.
Please note: these resources are not for when you are in a crisis. If you are in a life threatening situation please call 9-1-1.
Some counselling/programs services are noted to be free and others have cost associated with services. Some counselling/programs services require a referral, Please inquire directly.
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