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Burnaby Family Life | Moving Ahead Program (MAP)
Submitted by martina on June 24, 2013The Moving Ahead program is a collaborative, case management service approach for the delivery of comprehensive, holistic and client-centered programming to refugees and immigrants who face multiple barriers to their settlement.
The program utilizes outreach and in-home consultation as methods to reach and support isolated newcomer populations. Moving Ahead provides eligible refugee and immigrant clients with the following services:
* Needs Assessment and Action Planning
* Case Management of Individual Client Files
* Social and Emotional Support
* Settlement Information and Counselling
* Life Skills, Literacy and Essential Skills Development
* Practical Assistance
* Supported Access to Services
Referral form here.
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Dentists who accept IFH in Greater Vancouver
Submitted by martina on June 10, 2013
Printable patient handout compiled and maintained by nurses at Bridge Clinic:
List of dentists in Vancouver, Richmond, North Shore and Surrey who accept IFH, some of whom speak Arabic, provided by the BC Dental Association.
BCDA's list of reduced cost clinics.
Bed bug fact sheet | OCASI
Submitted by martina on June 10, 2013Surrey food bank
Submitted by martina on April 16, 2013Mosaic | Stopping the Violence program
Submitted by martina on March 4, 2013The STV Counselling Program provides free individual and group counselling to women experiencing emotional, physical, sexual, psychological, social and/or economic abuse.
Program brochure.
Diversecity | counseling & MAP program
Submitted by martina on March 4, 2013
The Family Services department of Diversecity provides counselling services to immigrants and refugees in their appropriate language and within their appropriate cultural value system. Individual and family counseling (suicidality, depression, family conflict, adjustment, trauma, grief). Referral form.
The Child and Youth Mental Health Program provides professional counseling services to children and youth from immigrant and refugee families experiencing mental health issues and who live in Surrey or Delta. Reasons for referral include; depression, anxiety, suicidality, PTSD, ADHD, and psychosis. Services are offered through individual, family and group sessions. Referral form.
The Moving Ahead program through Diversecity provides individualized support to vulnerable immigrant and refugee newcomers (youth and adults) in the Surrey, North Delta and Langley communities through an integrated, holistic and client-centred model. Vulnerable clients eligible for this program are those who demonstrate a combination of the barriers that affect their ability to successfully settle and integrate.
Settlement Enhancement Counsellors provide eligible clients with the following specific One-on-One or Family Services through a wrap-around case management system:
- In-home Assessment of client/family needs, assets and capacities
- Settlement Information and Counselling
- Practical Assistance and Supported Access to Services
- Visitation and Home Outreach
- Peer Support and Mentoring (where appropriate)
- Program Exit and Transition Support
- Follow up and Monitoring
VAST (Vancouver Area Survivors of Torture)
Submitted by martina on March 4, 2013Mondays – Thursdays 9:30am – 5:30pm. Closed Friday.
Printable map here.
The Vancouver Association for Survivors of Torture (VAST) promotes the human rights and mental health of refugees who arrive in British Columbia with trauma as a result of torture, political violence, and other forms of persecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, and political opinion. We promote mental health and healing through trauma-focused psychological counselling and community-based psychosocial support for individuals and families, and promote human rights through public education and advocacy campaigns on the rights of refugees and the prevention of torture.
For a description of services, who they are offered to, and how to make an appointment/referral, see VAST's website here.
Vancouver & Lower Mainland Multicultural Family Support Services Society
Submitted by martina on March 4, 2013Provide culturally sensitive advocacy, counselling and support to immigrant, visible minority and refugee women and their families who are experiencing/have experienced family violence.
Head office in Burnaby, but provide services across Lower Mainland.
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