National Directory for Canadian Families

Support Groups

Promotes, supports, and assists grandparents and their families in maintaining or restablishing family ties and family stability, where the family has been disrupted for any reason. Focus is on the ties between grandparents and their grandchildren. Offers public awareness and education about family rights and responsibilities, and relationships between grandparents and grandchildren. Encourages participation in the legislative process of Canada and the Yukon Territory in order to codify grandparents" rights to access or custody of grandchildren, and to entitle grandparents to information from custodial parents concerning their grandchildren. Services include a self-help group for grandparents, and accompaniment of grandparents to meetings about legal or policy decisions. Nonprofit society.

Addiction

Offers full harm reduction services including safer injection equipment (needles, cookers, ties, swabs, sharps, and VitC), safer inhalation kits (stem and bubble pipes), safer snorting kits (plastic or paper straws), Take Home Naloxone (Narcan) Kits and overdo...

Support Groups

Dedicated to supporting Yukoners through grief and end-of-life. Provides programs and services to help clients better understand the profound journey of living, dying and grieving, and to help them better support themselves and others. Offers support to dying and grieving clients at the Continuing Care Facilities in Whitehorse, the Whitehorse General Hospital, in private homes, and in the agency"s downtown office space. Also offers online services and programming for those living in rural Yukon communities. Services are offered free of charge, and include counselling,Healing Touch(energy therapy that supports physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health for those who are dying, their caregivers, and for those who are grieving), grief groups, public education workshops, vigil services (sitting with someone at end of life),Feelie Hearts(small stuffed hearts that can be tucked into a pocket or purse to bring comfort and a tangible reminder to hold our heart tenderly), and a lending library. Office hours are 11:30 am to 3 pm Monday to Friday. Non-profit organization.

Support Groups

Provides support to pregnant women and teens who are at risk of having low birth weight babies. Program includes nutritional and health counselling, referrals to other community services, peer support, and weekly lunch, drop-ins, classes, and social activities. Serves Whitehorse. Funded by Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) as a Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP).

Mental Health

Provides social development services to the Kaska Nation in the Yukon and northern BC. Restorative Healing Program responds to the needs of residential school survivors and those suffering intergenerational trauma; services include family psychotherapy, tradit...

Support Groups

Provides support to pregnant women and teens who are at risk of having low birth weight babies. Program includes nutritional and health counselling, referrals to other community services, peer support, and weekly lunch, drop-ins, classes, and social activities. Provides follow-up support for a year after delivery. Serves Watson Lake. Funded by Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) as a Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP).

Mental Health

Counselling and mental wellness services include individual counselling, outreach services, and community support. Psychiatry consultation may be part of the service; if seeking psychiatry service only, referral required from a family doctor or medical centre....

Mental Health

Provides individual counselling, outreach services, and community support to people with a mental health disability and/or substance use issue. Drop-in counselling is free and available from 11 am to 3 pm Wednesdays; call on Wednesday morning to set up a same-...

Mental Health

Early Psychosis Intervention provides intensive outreach services for individuals age 15 to 30 who have been newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, or have recently experienced psychosis. The Psychiatric Outreach Program provides support and n...

Addiction

Provides substance use prevention initiatives, consultation and capacity-building, and information for parents, professionals, and the general public. Also raises awareness on potential risks of cannabis use, and fentanyl and other high-potency opioids. Addict...

Addiction

Coordinates and supports the Take Home Naloxone Kit (Narcan) program, group harm reduction training, and distribution of supplies. Services are available to individuals and organizations. Take Home Naloxone Kits are offered at various sites; see website for de...

Addiction

Provides a safe and supportive 24-hour care for individuals age 14 and older who are going through withdrawal and recovering from the effects of substance use or dependence. Services include medical monitoring, awareness and education sessions, and referral to...

Addiction

Supports the well-being of families with children and youth up to age 19 who are experiencing mental health difficulties or social, emotional, or behavioural disturbances. Services include screening and assessment for mental health and/or problematic substance...

Addiction

Abstinence based self-help support group for people who are recovering from drug addiction. Based on the 12-step principles of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Meets 7 pm to 8:30 pm Wednesdays and Sundays at the BYTE office (404A Ogilvie Street). Leave a name and number and a contact will call you with more information.

Psychiatric facilities

Granger Havenoffers four rooms for persons with disabilities. Services include skill building, assistance with appointments, and community engagement. Also offers supports for individuals transitioning to independent living. TheMental Health Treatment Home (6Plex)is a residential treatment home for adults with mental illness to participate in psycho/social development while managing their mental illness. Also offers one respite home. Maximum length of stay is two years. Referral required through the Mental Wellness and Substance Use Psychiatric Outreach Program.Max"s Placeprovides harm reduction services from a housing first approach to three men with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) who are active in their addictions and connected to the justice system. Referral required through the Adult Disabilities Services Branch of Social Services.