Central Okanagan

Services

Middle Years Youth

SHSS provides behaviour-based, skill-building programming and day-to-day care in a staffed, home-based setting...

SHSS provides behaviour-based, skill-building programming and day-to-day care in a staffed, home-based setting.

Goals:
Decrease challenging behaviours supporting a successful transition to a family setting, or semi-independent living program.

Eligibility

  • Children and Youth 9-18
  • With complex needs
  • In care of the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD)

Access

  • Must be referred by the MCFD Resources Team.
Youth

Collaborative Youth & Family Services provides flexible, intensive, short-term support, and counselling....

Collaborative Youth & Family Services provides flexible, intensive, short-term support, and counselling.

Goals:
Improve stability in the home by strengthening the parent-teen relationship, and by increasing involvement in school, employment and other healthy social activities.

Eligibility

  • Families with youth 12-15
  • At risk of disconnection from their families and communities

Access

  • Must be referred by Ministry of Children and Family Development Youth Team
Middle Years Youth

Secondary School Based Mental Health provides assessment, counselling, and education....

Secondary School Based Mental Health provides assessment, counselling, and education.

Goals:
Improve, emotional social and academic functioning.

Eligibility

  • Secondary school students
  • Having difficulty with their mental health and/or
  • Have a mood, anxiety or thought disorder diagnosis

Access

  • Must be referred by secondary school counsellors in School District 23.
Middle Years Youth

FBT provides intensive outreach counselling and psychoeducational services....

FBT provides intensive outreach counselling and psychoeducational services.

Goals:
Improve emotional stability, build parenting capacity and increase natural and community support systems.

Eligibility

  • Families with children and youth 7-18
  • Having trouble with their child or youth’s mental health

Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family Development – Child & Youth Mental Health Teams in the Central and North Okanagan
Early Years Middle Years

Elementary School Based Mental Health provides case management, assessment, counselling and consultation services....

Elementary School Based Mental Health provides case management, assessment, counselling and consultation services.

Goals:
Increase resilience-building skills and understanding of mental health concerns.

Eligibility

  • Elementary school-enrolled children in School District 23
  • Having trouble with social, emotional, and cognitive functioning

Access

  • Must be referred by District elementary school-based teams and counsellors
Youth

Boundaries provides intensive individualized live-in support and short-term transitional or bail support....

Boundaries provides intensive individualized live-in support and short-term transitional or bail support.

Goals:
Reduce or eliminate future involvement in the criminal justice system.  

Eligibility

  • Youth 12-18
  • Actively involved with Youth Probation in British Columbia (BC)

Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family (MCFD) Youth Probation Services teams in BC.
Youth

Boundaries Outreach provides individualized counselling, case management services and probation order monitoring, in collaboration with the Youth Probation team....

Boundaries Outreach provides individualized counselling, case management services and probation order monitoring, in collaboration with the Youth Probation team.

Goals:
Reduce or eliminate future involvement in the criminal justice system and to increase functioning in school, employment, family and healthy social activities.

Eligibility

  • Youth 12-18
  • Actively involved with Youth Probation in British Columbia (BC)

Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family (MCFD) Youth Probation Services teams in BC.
Youth

The Concurrent program provides flexible, individualized counselling services. ...

The Concurrent program provides flexible, individualized counselling services.

Goals:
Reduce or eliminate future involvement in the criminal justice system and to increase functioning in school, employment, family and healthy social activities.

Eligibility

  • Youth 12-18
  • With substance use, mental health, and related concerns
  • Attending alternative schools in School District 23

Access

  • Anyone can refer, including self-referrals
Youth

Choices provides flexible, individualized counselling, case management services and probation order monitoring in collaboration with the Youth Probation team....

Increase healthy social functioning and to reduce or eliminate future involvement in the criminal justice system. 

Goals:
Increase healthy social functioning and to reduce or eliminate future involvement in the criminal justice system. 

Eligibility

  • Youth 12-18
  • On a youth order

Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Youth Probation Team.
Youth

ISSP provides an intensified level of community supervision and support through flexible, individualized counselling, case management services and probation order monitoring in collaboration with the Youth Probation Team ...

ISSP provides an intensified level of community supervision and support through flexible, individualized counselling, case management services and probation order monitoring in collaboration with the Youth Probation Team

Goals:
Increase healthy social functioning and to reduce or eliminate future involvement in the criminal justice system. 

Eligibility

  • Youth 12-18
  • On a youth order

Access

  • Must be referred by the MCFD Youth Probation Team.
Youth

Changes School-Based Prevention provides individual brief & group counselling and school/community substance education....

Changes School-Based Prevention provides individual brief & group counselling and school/community substance education.

Goals:
Enhance protective factors while reducing risk factors that contribute to substance misuse and absenteeism from school. The program also supports school staff to use a prevention and education approach to substance use issues.

Eligibility

  • Youth
  • Identified as low to medium risk for substance use and
  • Enrolled in middle school in School District 23

Access

  • Anyone can refer, including self-referrals
Youth

Youth Services provides case management and service coordination....

Youth Services provides case management and service coordination.

Goals:
Reduce a broad range of barriers impacting independence and to support a transition to adulthood.

Eligibility

  • Youth 16-18
  • Unhoused and
  • Disconnected from their families and other community supports and
  • On a Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Youth Agreement

Access

  • Must be referred by MCFD Provincial Centralized Screening
  • Call 1-800-663-9122
Youth

Changes provides a continuum of outpatient treatment services....

Changes provides a continuum of outpatient treatment services.

Goals:
Reduce or eliminate substance use.

Eligibility

  • Youth 12-18
  • On a youth probation order and
  • Having trouble with their substance use

Access

  • Must be referred by The Ministry of Children and Family Development Youth Probation Team
Youth

PSI provides individualized outreach support services for adults....

PSI provides individualized outreach support services for adults.

Goals:
Increase quality of life in the areas of shared living, community inclusion, employment skills and life skills development.

Eligibility

  • Adults with significant limitations in adaptive functioning and
  • A fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnosis and/or
  • An autism spectrum disorder diagnosis
  • OR Intellectual Disability Diagnosis

Access

  • Must be referred by Community Living British Columbia (CLBC) in Kelowna
Youth

L.I.F.E. provides individualized support for learning, inclusion, friendships and employment. ...

PSI provides individualized outreach support services for adults.

Goals:

L.I.F.E. provides individualized support for learning, inclusion, friendships and employment.

Eligibility

  • Adults with significant limitations in adaptive functioning who want to work and
  • Have fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and/or
  • An autism spectrum disorder diagnosis or
  • A developmental disability

Access

  • Must be referred by CLBC in Kelowna
  • Call - 250.712.3610
Youth

Changes School-Based provides brief individual counselling, assessment, and case management services. ...

Changes School-Based provides brief individual counseling, assessment, and case management services.

Goals:
Reduce or eliminate problematic substance use.

Eligibility

  • Youth 12-18
  • Experiencing moderate-to-high-risk problematic substance misuse and
  • Registered in a public middle or secondary school in School District 23

Access

  • Anyone can refer, including self-referrals

Community Living Home Share Program

Home Share is a type of Community Living British Columbia (CLBC) funded home support that supports adults to live as fully and independently as possible in their home.

Community Living Services

The Personal Supports Initiative (PSI) and Developmental Disability (DD) Community Living Services programs provide services that focus on shared living, outreach support, community inclusion, employment skills and life skills development.

Specialized Homes and Support Services

This approaches from an attachment-based and developmental lens for youth-in-care who have complex support needs in a staffed home-based setting. All youth served are in the care of MCFD.

Collaborative Youth & Family Services

This program provides intensive, strengths-based, short-term intervention, support, and counselling to assist youth ages 12-15 to reintegrate into and/or to remain in their family home.

School Based Mental Health Support

The program serves secondary school students having difficulty with low or unstable mood, anxiety, extreme stress, or those who have a formal diagnosis of a mood, anxiety or thought disorder affecting their emotional, social, mental, and academic functioning.

Child and Youth Mental Health (CYMH) Family Treatment Program

The program provides intensive home and community-based counselling, psychoeducation and individualized support services for children and youth ages 6-18 and their families experiencing difficulties associated with their child or youth’s mental health.

Elementary School Based Mental Health

The program serves children experiencing challenges with social, emotional, and mental functioning often associated with low or unstable mood and/or anxiety.

Boundaries Program

The Boundaries program provides intensive individualized support for youth between the ages of 12 and 18 who have been convicted of a serious offence and who are directed to attend for treatment counselling and/or a Residential Attendance Program, under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

Concurrent Program

The Concurrent Program is delivered in partnership with the School District 23 alternative schools to provide counselling for at-risk youth aged 13-18 who need support to address substance use, mental health, and related concerns. Service can be provided in schools or via outreach, depending on the needs of the individual.

Choices/ Intensive Support and Supervision Program (ISSP) Youth Justice Programs

The youth justice programs provide a two-stream alternative-to-custody sentencing option for youth in conflict with the law, as well as a young offender community intervention service. Service options vary by geographic area.

Changes School-Based Outreach Substance Use Counselling Services

The School-Based Outreach Substance program provides a continuum of intervention services including assessment, service planning, counselling, and service coordination for referred youth.

Youth Services

The Youth Services program provides case management and service coordination to assist unhoused, high-risk youth aged 16-18 on an MCFD Youth Agreement who are disenfranchised from their families and other community supports to address barriers to independence.

Changes Youth Justice Substance Use Counseling Services

The Changes Youth Justice program is an outpatient treatment service provided to youth 12-18 years old who have been convicted of a criminal offence, and who experience difficulties with their substance use.