Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) – Yukon
Youth
Provides free supported self-help for adults and youth ages 15 and up with mild to moderate depression, anxiety, and/or stress. Provides an instructional DVD that offers practical tips on managing mood, sleeping better, building confidence, increasing activity, problem solving, and healthy living; designed to give you the tools to help yourself at your own pace.Bounce Back Onlineprovides interactive video-based modules, fillable e-books, and interactive worksheets. Register through website. Also offers a guided self-help program that combines a series of customized workbooks with a telephone coaching service; accepts referral from a doctor, psychiatrist, nurse practitioner, or school counsellor. Self-referrals accepted if the applicant is connected to a primary care provider. Telephone coaching is offered in English and French.
Grandparents’ Rights Association of the Yukon (GRAY)
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.
Blood Ties Four Directions Centre
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 overdose prevention training, fentanyl and benzo testing, health and harm reduction education, and safer sex supplies (condoms and dental dams). Also offers pick-up of discarded needles; after hours call or text the outreach van. TheDrug User Support Groupprovides peer support and meets 1 pm to 2:30 pm Tuesdays to discuss topics around drug use including safe practices, accessing safe supply, overdose prevention, street first aid, advocacy and empowerment, and access to services. Drop-in hours are 8:30 am to 5:30 pm Monday to Friday.
Al-Anon – Whitehorse (YT)
Addiction
12-step support groups for people whose lives have been affected by someone else"s drinking. Volunteers answer the toll-free phone 24 hours a day. Website lists meetings by city.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) – Yukon
Addiction
12-step support groups for women and men who want to stop drinking or are recovering from alcoholism. Meeting times and locations are listed on the website; volunteers answer calls 24-hours a day. Serves Carcross, Dawson City, Faro, Teslin, Watson Lake, Whitehorse, and other communities in the Yukon. Also serves Atlin, Dease Lake, Iskut, and Telegraph Creek in BC.
All Genders Yukon Society
Mental Health
Offers a variety of services to individuals who identify as transgender, Two-Spirit, or non-binary and their primary supports. Services include free counselling, peer support, group and individual art therapy, and community events. Nonprofit society.