Welcome to Refugee Health - Vancouver

Refugee Health Vancouver is a practical resource to support clinicians who provide care to refugees in British Columbia.

Need a patient handout on diabetes in Farsi? Looking for a Spanish-speaking dentist in Vancouver who offers reduced fees? Not sure what convention refugees are, why they would flee Myanmar, or how you can bill to care for them? This site pulls together the answers for you.

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Cross cultural mental health

VCH Community Mental Health Program

Referral forms for adult, older adult, and child/youth.

New Beginnings | ISSofBC

ISSofBC provides services for young refugee families with children up to age six with parenting needs such as nutrition, health care and access to community resources.
 
Services in your first language include:

  • Home visits and family assessments
  • Children’s assessments
  • Early Childhood Development (ECD) drop-ins for children and caregivers
  • Parent education workshops on family, finance, health, nutrition, parenting, life skills and more
  • Referrals to community resources
  • Accompanied visits to medical appointments and other community services
  • Family field trips
  • Individual support

PTSD Clinic | VGH

Our Outpatient Psychiatry Program accepts PTSD referrals for assessment and treatment of patients living in the Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area.

VGH Psychiatry Cross-Cultural Clinic

"We are a Mental Health Team that is primarily comprised of Psychiatrists that provide culturally sensitive and language-specific assessment and treatment.

We see people with major depressive disorders, dysthymic disorders, bipolar disorders, generalized anxiety disorders, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorders (early stabilization), severe adjustment disorders, and psychotic disorders for a limited number of challenging patients after discharge from inpatient programs.

This program provides a full psychiatric assessment including diagnosis, medication, recommendations, and links with other resources available in the community. It provides short-term, individual psychotherapy, case review and second opinion for community mental health services, as well as psycho-education for patients and families to provide further information on their disorders."

Referral form.

VCH Community Mental Health Program

Referral forms for adult, older adult, and child/youth.

SUCCESS

Individual and family counseling.
Fee for service, sliding scale.
Vancouver, Burnaby,

BC Society for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Individual and group counseling for men who have experienced sexual abuse.
Trans positive.

Battered Women's Support Services

Sexual assault and violence counseling for women.

Professional Trauma Counselling Services | Women's Place

"Our program provides free individual and group counselling for women who have experienced sexual assault, childhood trauma, and/or intimate partner abuse. We acknowledge that abuse can be emotional, mental, physical, sexual, and /or spiritual.

We offer Short-Term, Long-Term and Group Counselling."

Trauma and Sexual Abuse Program

Provides short-term intervention and long-term counselling for children and youth who have experienced trauma or have been sexually abused; also offers support for non-offending family members