This page provides a list of mental health and wellness resources that are designed to support the needs of racialized individuals.
If you need immediate crisis support, please see Crisis Lines & Resources.
Hate Crime Support
- Call your local police for support with your investigation.
indigenous resources
Indigenous Culturally-Safe Supports
- DUDES Club
- An Indigenous men’s wellness organisation that aims to To promote holistic, cost-effective men’s health through accessible dialogue, education, and health screening opportunities.
- First Nations Virtual Doctor of the Day: 1-855-344-3800 (Call to book an appointment)
- Provides virtual health care and referral support for people who do not have a doctor or are unable to get an appointment. It is for all First Nations people living in BC and their family members, including family members who are not Indigenous.
- Doctors are available by video or phone from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. every day.
- First Nations Health Authority: Mental Health and Cultural Supports
- Provides free counselling to people of Indigenous heritage.
- Healing Takes Time: Wellness Resources
- Suicide: Responding and Keeping People Safe
- Provides free counselling to people of Indigenous heritage.
- Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS): 1-800-721-0066 (toll free)
- A partner with the FNHA in providing access to counselling, cultural and emotional support services to former students of residential and day schools, and their families, regardless of status.
- Métis Counselling Connection Program
- MNBC Citizens are welcome to apply for 10 free counselling sessions with a counsellor, psychologist, or psychiatrist.
- Metro Vancouver Indigenous Services Society
- Provides culturally safe mental health and substance misuse services to the Indigenous community of Metro Vancouver.
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Health Support Services: 1-855-550-5454 (toll free)
- A national program administered in BC by First Nations Health Benefits. Services are available to survivors, family members and others who have been affected.
- Support Network for Indigenous Women & Women of Colour (SNIWWOC)
- Fights barriers that limit access to healthcare and full reproductive choice for Canadian racialised women, two-spirit, and nonbinary people.
- Tsow-Tun Le Lum Society: 1-888-403-3123 (toll free)
- Provides confidential outreach services such as counselling, cultural supports, and personal wellness programs.
- Vancouver Coastal Health: Indigenous Health
- Committed to providing culturally safe healthcare to Indigenous people in the Vancouver Coastal Health region.
general racialiZed resources
- Act 2 End Racism
- Anti-Racism Resources
- Black Health Alliance
- Black Lives Matter Vancouver
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation
- Anti-Racism and Inclusion Resources: CHF BC
- Cultivating Growth and Solidarity
- A mental health space for Asian communities in Canada.
- DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society: 604-597-0205
- Offers peer support and mental health and substance misuse services to newcomers and racialised people.
- Elimin8Hate
- Advocating for racial equity and inclusion for all Asian Canadians.
- Healing Colour
- KCR Community Resources: United Against Discrimination
- Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre
- National Queer & Trans Therapists of Colour Network
- Racial Equity Tools
- Racial Trauma Resources
- Resilience BC Anti-Racism Network
- S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Help Lines
- Emotional support in Mandarin, Cantonese, or Korean.
- Vancouver Black Therapy & Advocacy Foundation