KB Searchlight
KB Searchlight has two search options:
- click on your community in the map below to find services in your immediate area or
- search by specific program or service using the drop down menu located below the map.
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Family Services – Boundary Family Services
Phone: 250-442-2267, 877-442-5355
Email: info@bfiss.org
Website: http://www.boundaryfamily.org/
Communities Serviced: Grand Forks, Midway / Rock Creek / Beaverdell
Age Group Serviced: Children, Adults, All Ages
Programs:
Services are provided to families experiencing personal difficulties, life transitions and family crises with a focus on keeping children safe. We engage and link families to the assistance that they require, provide support and teach life, safety and parenting skills.
This program provides short-term, outcome-focused assistance to families that are experiencing difficulties with parent-adolescent conflict. The focus of the program is to avoid family breakdown and to encourage positive relationships through the transition of youth from adolescence into adulthood.
Services:
Referral Process:
Self referral, community agencies, SD 51, MCFD (which have priority).
Fern Creek Counselling
Phone: 250-509-0166
Email: helena@ferncreekcounselling.com
Website: https://www.ferncreekcounselling.com/
Communities Serviced: Nelson
Age Group Serviced: 13 – 24, 13 – 19, Children, Youth, Adults
Programs:
Evidence-based treatments for lived experiences or inherited trauma that cause people to question themselves or their worth, live out of alignment with what feels true to them, live with mental illness, feel the ongoing impacts of traumatic stress, repress themselves due to toxic socialized expectations. PTSD, Neurodiversity, Social Justice, Sexual Assault Recovery, Depression and Anxiety, Acute Stress, Non-violent Communication, and Eating Disorders.
Services:
Referral Process:
Book online through website.
Fireside Art Therapy
Phone: 250-513-0373
Email: christine@tinyisland.ca
Website: https://firesidearttherapy.ca/Tiny_Island/Welcome.html
Communities Serviced: Kaslo
Age Group Serviced: 13 – 24, 13 – 19, Children, Youth, Adults, All Ages
Programs:
Art therapy for individual children, teens or adults as well as group facilitation and workshops. Art Mapping, Life Transitions, and the combination of creativity and the natural world. Also a postpartum doula. Artmaking can be a powerful way to ease into motherhood and can come to your home for a private session. Exploring the intersection of creativity, travel, meditation and the environment, and how these tools can help build resiliency for times of change. Art Therapy is a creative tool for expression, release, soothing and community building. Sessions can be one on one or in a group setting, to work with issues such as grief, depression and anxiety.
Services:
Referral Process:
Call or email to book an appointment.
Foundry
Email: info@foundrybc.ca
Website: https://foundrybc.ca/
Communities Serviced: Provincial
Age Group Serviced: 13 – 19, Children, Youth
Programs:
This is a website with tools related to self-help, mental health, substance use, healthy living, tough topics and life skills. It provides information on community services, phone/online chat, peer support, tips for talking with someone, apps and more.
Services:
Freedom Quest Youth Services
Phone: (250) 304-2676
Email: info@freedomquestyouthservices.ca
Website: http://www.freedomquestyouthservices.ca
Communities Serviced: Castlegar, Grand Forks, Kaslo, Nakusp, Nelson, Salmo, Slocan Valley, Trail / Rossland
Age Group Serviced: 13 – 24, 13 – 19, Youth, Adults
Programs:
All services are free. Clinical Counselling for youth who are being negatively impacted by their own substance use and/or the substance use of others. Mental health, harm-reduction, residential services, Regional Alcohol & Drug Day Treatment Program (RADD), Therapeutic Recreation Programming.
Services:
Referral Process:
Self refer through website
From Grief to Action
Address: 2490 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver, BC v6m 1p5
Website: http://www.fgta.ca/
Communities Serviced: Provincial
Age Group Serviced: All Ages
Programs:
A website that provides support and resources to families and friends affected by drug use, including specific resources for parents. It includes a coping kit, fact sheets and self tests.
Services:
Grand Forks RCMP Victim Services
Phone: 250-442-5846
Website: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/justice/criminal-justice/bcs-criminal-justice-system/if-you-are-a-victim-of-a-crime/victim-of-crime/victim-services-directory
Communities Serviced: Grand Forks, Midway / Rock Creek / Beaverdell
Age Group Serviced: All Ages
Programs:
Victim Services provides information and support to assist victims of crime and women and children impacted by violence.
Services:
Referral Process:
Self-referrals, community agency, RCMP, hospital.
Here to Help
Website: http://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/
Communities Serviced: Provincial
Age Group Serviced: All Ages
Programs:
A website to help you find quality information, learn new skills, and connect with key resources in BC. Explore strategies to help you take care of your mental health and use substances in healthier ways, find the information you need to manage mental health and substance use problems, and learn how you can support a loved one.
Services:
Holding Hope Counselling
Phone: 250-777-1901
Email: cherylpriceuk@gmail.com
Website: https://cherylpriceuk.wixsite.com/holdinghope
Communities Serviced: Kaslo
Age Group Serviced:
Programs:
Clinical Counsellor, Trauma Therapist and Art Therapy Clinician. Certified NARM therapist. NARM (The NeuroAffective Relational Model) is specifically designed for working with Complex Trauma by addressing the attachment patterns that cause life-long psychobiological symptoms and interpersonal difficulties. Instructor with two art therapy institutes: KATI (Kutenai Art Therapy Institute) and CiiAT (Canadian International Institute of Art Therapy.) Cheryl also works as an MCFD Art Therapy Clinician, providing group therapy for parents and teens.
Services:
Referral Process:
Call or email to book an appointment.
Intensive Support and Supervision Program – ARC Programs
Phone: 250-365-5800
Email: jmair@arcprograms.com
Website: https://arcprograms.com/node/236
Communities Serviced: Castlegar, Kaslo, Nelson, Salmo, Slocan Valley, Trail / Rossland
Age Group Serviced: 13 – 19, Youth, Adults
Programs:
This program provides an alternative to custody sentencing option for youth in conflict with the law and/or supports the re-integration of young offenders in the community following a period of custody. It assists youth to address factors leading to their illegal behaviours and improve community functioning. It serves to increase emotional stability, interpersonal and life skills, parenting capacity (if applicable) and harm reduction strategies through individual counseling, parenting support, recreation activities, assessments, goal development, group/individual life skill programming and more.
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Referral Process:
Referrals to the program are initially screened for eligibility by the Youth Probation Officer or Team Leader, then forwarded to and screened by the ARC Program Director. The program primarily serves high-risk young offenders, between the ages of 13 and 17. Exceptions may be made for older youth that are still under a youth probation order after they turn 18.
Jamie Nelson, Therapist – ARC Programs
Phone: (250) 608-1834
Email: jnelson@arcprograms.com
Website: http://www.arcprograms.com
Communities Serviced: Castlegar, Salmo, Slocan Valley, Trail / Rossland
Age Group Serviced: 13 – 24, 13 – 19, Youth, Adults
Programs:
All services are free. Trauma/PTSD / Gender dysphoria/LGBTQ+ / Abuse/maltreatment / Substance use / Addiction to social media/gaming / Sexual behaviours / Grief / Mindfullness / Anxiety/depression / Developmental disability / Intellectual disability / Indigenous oriented therapy / Autism spectrum / Parental coaching / ADHD
Services:
Referral Process:
Self refer through website.
Jaylene Bettcher – Counsellor
Phone: 250-352-6600
Email: info@summitpsychology.org
Website: https://summitpsychology.org/
Communities Serviced: Nelson
Age Group Serviced: 13 – 24, 13 – 19, Children, Youth
Programs:
Neuropsychological Assessment, Psychoeducational Assessment, Psychological Assessment, Psychological Treatment, Child & Adolescent Services. Helping children and teenagers become happier, healthier, and more confident.
Services:
Referral Process:
Call or email to book an appointment.
Jeanine (Jan) Beck Therapist
Phone: (250) 364-2326
Email: jbeck@trailfair.ca
Website: https://www.trailfair.ca/
Communities Serviced: Trail / Rossland
Age Group Serviced: 13 – 24, 13 – 19, Children, Youth, Adults
Programs:
All services are free. Children and youth who have experienced domestic violence and children and youth that have been sexually abused
Services:
Referral Process:
Self refer by contacting via email or phone.
Jesse Evans – Counsellor
Phone: 250-777-7525
Email: jesseevanscounselling@gmail.com
Website: https://jesseevanscounselling.ca/
Communities Serviced: Nelson
Age Group Serviced: 13 – 24, 13 – 19, Youth, Adults
Programs:
Counselling for Depression & Anxiety, Trauma, Relationships, Loss & Grief.
Services:
Referral Process:
Call or email to book an appointment.
JM Wellness – Counsellor – ARC Programs
Phone: 250-551-1054
Email: jmair@jmwellness.ca
Website: https://www.jmwellness.ca/
Communities Serviced: Castlegar
Age Group Serviced: 13 – 24, 13 – 19, Youth, Adults
Programs:
Emotion Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Mindfulness Based techniques and strategies. Family Counselling and extensive experience in attachment and trauma informed practice.
Services:
Referral Process:
Book online through website, call or email.
KB Searchlight is an initiative of the Kootenay Boundary CYMHSU Action Team, coordinated locally by Kootenay Boundary Division of Family Practice and hosted by partner agency, Kootenay Family Place. Other action team members include families, doctors, mental health counsellors, school administrators, health authority staff, community agencies and more. The Child Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Collaborative is supported by the Shared Care Committee with additional support for specialist participation from the Specialist Services Committee. Both committees are partnerships between Doctors of BC and government of BC.