Crisis Society News

• Read our latest In Connection newsletter, titled Connecting Our Island Community.
• Review our call statistics for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
• The Vancouver Island Crisis Line’s resource database is now accessible via our website. You can search for resources in your community or Island-wide.

Other News

• The newly launched website, mindcheck.ca, was created in order to assist young people to better understand distress they are experiencing and to link them to sources of help that will enable them to learn skills and strategies to manage these problems.
• Facebook suicide prevention chat service launched on December 13, 2011

Call for help. You are not alone.

Crisis lines are available 24 hours per day,
seven days a week.

Vancouver Island Crisis Line:
1-888-494-3888
for people in emotional crisis,
including suicide and mental health issues

Suicide Line:
1-800-SUICIDE
(1-800-784-2433)
BC-wide

310 Mental Health Support Line:
310-6789
BC-wide

Helping People Find their Way

The Vancouver Island Crisis Society is contracted by the Vancouver Island Health Authority to provide the Vancouver Island Crisis Line service to the entire island, the islands of the Georgia Strait, and  the mainland communities between Powell River and Rivers Inlet.

We are a non-profit agency whose services include 24-hour crisis lines (providing crisis intervention, information, and referrals); Suicide Bereavement Support Group meetings; Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training workshops, training in schools with youth and teachers; and various workshops and customized training addressing suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and communication skills for individuals and agencies throughout our communities.

We also work in partnership with Vancouver Island Health Authority to provide public access to Mental Health and Addictions services in the communities administered by VIHA.

Crisis is a point of opportunity as well as danger.
Successful crisis intervention involves
helping people take advantage of the opportunity
and avoid the danger inherent in crisis.

Lee Ann Hoff
People in Crisis

Upcoming Training Sessions

• Crisis Line Volunteering
  The current training session began on May 5, 2012.
  New dates to be announced.
  
• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training –
  New dates to be announced.
• Crisis Intervention Skills Training –
  New dates to be announced.