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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 difficulty with social, emotional, and cognitive 
    functioning 

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by School District #23 elementary school-based teams and counsellors  
Middle Years 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

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Youth team in Kelowna & West Kelowna  
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

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Child & Youth Mental Health teams in Kelowna & West Kelowna 
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)

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Resources team in Kelowna 
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

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by secondary school counsellors in School District 23.
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)

Restricted 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)

Restricted Access

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

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Youth Probation team in Kelowna 
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

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Youth Probation team in the Kelowna 
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

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by MCFD Provincial Centralized Screening
  • Youth must be in the Central Okanagan 
  • Call 1-800-663-9122
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 

Open Access

  • Anyone can refer, including self-referrals
  • Must be in enrolled in School District #23  
  • Call – 250.763.2977 
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
  • Registered in middle school in School District #23  

Open Access

  • Anyone can refer, including self-referrals
  • Must be enrolled in School District #23. 
  • Call - 250.763.2977 
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
Restricted Access
  • Must be referred by The Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Youth Probation team in Kelowna 
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

Open Access

  • Anyone can refer, including self-referrals
  • Must be enrolled in a School District #23 alternative school
  • Call 250.763.2977 
Adults

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

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by Community Living British Columbia (CLBC) in Kelowna
  • Call - 250.712.3610 
Adults

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
  • a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) diagnosis and/or an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis
  • OR an Intellectual Disability diagnosis 

Restricted Access

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