Valley Integration to Active Living Society (V.I.T.A.L. Society) is a not-for-profit organization based on a model designed between 1989 and 1991. This model provided support to dual-diagnosis clients with challenging behaviors who had experienced difficulty living in their communities. Some of our residents experienced difficulty with legal/correctional systems. Their dual-diagnosis resulted in attempted treatment in a variety of settings that had produced little effect. Service providers with conventional service models were unwilling to continue to support them, resulting in residents spending most of their time in institutions such as Glendale Lodge and Riverview Hospital. With the closure of institutions, there was a need for alternate care models to provide a stable community-placement for these individuals. The model was designed on the aspects of institutional care that was most effective, modifying it to work in a community setting.The Ministry of Social Services and Housing, with some hesitation, accepted the idea of trying the model on an experimental basis.
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PHC GabriolaGabriolans helping GabriolansPeople for a Healthy Community - PHC Gabriola Island is a non-profit social services agency and community resource centre.PHC Gabriola works to support the health and well-being of all members of our community by offering a range of essential services.
We believe in the idea that people can recover from mental illness when they play an active and empowered role in their journey. Get InformedThe more we learn mental health and mental illness, the better equipped we become to promote and maintain good health in ourselves and others. Get InvolvedWith your help, CMHA can help someone with mental illness
The Hiiye'yu Lelum (House of Friendship) Society provides health, social, recreational and cultural services to promote individual, family and community self-reliance. These services address the needs and aspirations of aboriginal people and focus on well-being within a cross-cultural context. To provide a cultural bridge between the Aboriginal and non-aboriginal cultures in the Cowichan Valley. To provide a central facility where counselling, information and referral services are provided and where meetings, education and recreation activities may take place. To provide opportunities for the development of Aboriginal leadership in the community. To promote the well-being of Aboriginal people through program development.
Cowichan Family Life grew out of a grassroots movement driven by concerned and caring people, who believed counselling services should be available to everyone. We provide peer counselling to individuals, families and couples. A strength-based, solution focused model is used to support people who are dealing with current personal issues that are negatively impacting their lives.
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