Unbroken Chain - Indigenous Harm Reduction Program
Addictions / Substance Use, Indigenous Services, Mental Health - Adult & Senior, Mental Health - Child & Youth, Public Health, and Youth Services
Provided by Indigenous Women’s Sharing Society
Provides support to individuals impacted by the overdose crisis.
Provides support to individuals impacted by the overdose crisis, including people with lived and living experience, family and friends and youth, and those who are at risk of homelessness and are experiencing homelessness.
Provides the following:
- Outreach support
- Community education
- Youth outreach
- Resources and referrals
- Case management supports
- A 'positive wellness group' online, via zoom, every Sunday at 2pm
- Naloxone training and harm reduction workshops
- Provides Naloxone kits.
- Harm reduction education to youth
- Youth supports, including monthly Youth Hip Hop Nights and Mic Drop Rap Writing Workshops
- Peer support and counselling
- Substance use group support
The services are available to Indigenous and non- indigenous individuals. Harm reduction supports include Indigenous connections to Elders, healing circles, beading circles, talking and sharing circles, gatherings and community building.
778-585-3105
Website: https://iwss34436115.wordpress.com...
#202, 576 England Avenue, Courtenay, British Columbia
Cost: No cost
Availability
Service area: Comox, Courtenay, Cumberland, Denman Island, Fanny Bay, Hornby Island + show cities
Service Types Provided
Addictions / Substance Use
- Addiction Counselling: Addiction Counselling (Adult), Addiction Counselling - First Nations, and Addiction Counselling - Youth
- Harm Reduction: Counselling Support for Harm Reduction and Naloxone
- Navigation Support - Addiction Services
- Outreach Services
- Addiction - Support for Recovery: Peer Support - Addictions, Support Groups for people who use drugs, and Support Groups for Alcoholics
- Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD): Support for Families & Friends and Support for Recovery for Alcoholics
Indigenous Services
- Addiction Counselling: Addiction Counselling (Adult), Addiction Counselling - First Nations, and Addiction Counselling - Youth
- Cultural Connection
- Harm Reduction
- Indigenous Mental Health Services
- Outreach Services
- Navigation Support - First Nation Services
- Peer Support - Indigenous
- Traditional Circles
- Youth Groups
- Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD): Support for Families & Friends and Support for Recovery for Alcoholics
Mental Health - Adult & Senior
Mental Health - Child & Youth
Public Health
Ways to Access
- Provided 1:1 in-person
- Provided in a group in-person
- Provided online: email / video / on-line
The listing of this service in Pathways is not a recommendation or endorsement by Pathways.