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AIDS Vancouver Island (AVI)
About: AIDS Vancouver Island (AVI) is a community-based AIDS Service Organization (ASO). We provide education, support, and advocacy for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, and other communicable diseases. AIDS Vancouver Island provides integrated services to individuals with HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, and our Street Outreach Services provides services for people who use drugs by injection. AIDS Vancouver Island has managed the country... more...

Alliance Club (Drop-in Centre)
A downtown drop-in centre for youth who are 13-19 years of age. Open 3-10 pm from Monday to Thursdays. Dinner served at 5 pm. Laundry and shower facilities on site. Staff can provide supportive counselling, information, and referrals to other programs/service providers. Youth who have alternative places to eat are encouraged to do so. Victoria Youth Clinic also runs at this location on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Artemis Place
Artemis Place is an independent, integrated life skills and educational program which provides a unique alternative to traditional school for girls in our community who are overlooked by existing programs. Our students are girls at risk, often facing multiple barriers including poverty, violence, substance abuse, lack of family support and learning challenges. Our Alumni chose the name Artemis to represent the empowering nature of our program. Artemis, goddess of the hunt, was a powerful figu... more...

BC Healthy Communities
BC Healthy Communities is the organizational host of the YouthCore Program and the City of Victoria Youth Council Imagine. A Healthy Community. Healthy lifestyles. A vibrant economy. Affordable housing. Protected parks & green space. Accessible community services. Thriving neighbourhoods. Clean air and water. A sustainable environment. Ethnic and cultural diversity. Healthy public policy. Engaged citizens. A healthy community is all of this, and more.

Beacon Community Services
Youth programs include: Springboard to Success paid employment program, Girls' Group, Teen Education and Motherhood (TEAM), and Community Action Supporting Youth (CASY Respite Home Program).

Bipolar Society of British Columbia
The Bipolar Disorder Society of BC is the umbrella organization for the bipolar babe project and is a non-profit incorporated in January 2010 receiving charitable status in August 2010. The Bipolar Disorder Society of BC has designed programs providing awareness about mental illness in hopes of eliminating stigma, discrimination and unwarranted fears of this condition.

Citizens' Counselling Centre
The Greater Victoria Citizens' Counselling Centre assists adult community members in attaining socially and psychologically satisfying lives by providing quality, accessible, volunteer counselling services. We believe that every person has the right to access quality counselling services regardless of ability to pay. The Centre has a sliding fee scale based on family income. We believe that people are resourceful and are capable of making choices and decisions for themselves. We focus on... more...

Downtown YMCA-YWCA
The YMCA-YWCA of Greater Victoria operates a full complement facility at the downtown location (851 Broughton Street). These facilities are designed to help you meet your fitness, health and lifestyle needs and include pools, gymnasium, Racquetball courts, fitness and dance studios, Strength-training equipment: barbells; dumbbells; Keiser; Hammer Strength; Life Fitness; Atlantis & more!

Families In Transition
BC Families in Transition (formerly the Separation and Divorce Resource Centre) is a non-profit organization that provides psychological counselling, emotional support, legal information, and referral services in relation to separation, divorce, and family re-organization. We assist adults, children, teens, couples, and families to make informed choices and rebuild their lives.

Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre
The Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre promotes composting and conservation through... - workshops on composting and growing food; - fun events; - volunteer programs; - compost hotline: 250 386-WORM

"Cool Cues" Social Skills Program
Cool Cues is a social skills building group for 8-10 year olds. The program will run for 6 sessions on Mondays after school from 3:30-4:45 PM at James Bay Community Project. Next session will begin in the summer. Call for more details. Topics include: making and keeping friends, bullying, building self-confidence, how to read social cues, and appropriate behaviour - explored through games, art, and crafts, group activities. Program is free but children must be registered. Open to ch... more...

9-12 Years Creative Dance-Downtown Y
Improve your skills in ballet and jazz or hip-hop.

AVI Youth Outreach
Prevention, education, intervention, crisis management

Child and Youth Mental Health - Vancouver Island Region
Provides a wide range of community-based specialized mental health services to children, youth, and their families.

Citizens' Counselling Centre
Spring Groups are now forming. Low or no Fee. See website for further details.

Communicabl Disease Program
Provides medical co-leadership for a region-wide communicable disease team in the areas of surveillance, prevention and control.

Community Kitchen
Free Program!! Our Community Kitchen Program runs throughout the year with each session lasting 4 weeks. If you are looking for new recipe ideas, a chance to build upon your cooking skills, and would like to learn with a group of like-minded folks then come by the Centre to pre-register. Topics will include budgeting, shopping, nutrition, and recipe planning.Call today 250-383-0076 to find out how to register for the next session of Community Kitchen.

Counselling Groups are now forming
Groups are now forming for Winter 2012. Call, email or check our website for more information or to register.

Dare to Stand Out: A National Hepatitis C Forum
About Dare to Stand Out: A National Hepatitis C Forum Date: December 4-7, 2012 Locations: Terry Fox Canadian Youth Centre and Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario Cost: Free Age Range: 15-17 Maximum Forum Participants: 120 Purpose: To address the need for diversifying the preventative messaging available around hepatitis C, as well as how discrimination increases transmission of hepatitis C and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs). Program: Four days of activitie... more...

Discovery Youth and Family Addiction Services - South Island
Discovery Youth and Family Services We assist youth (age 13 - 19) and/or their families to reduce the harms associated with substance use and mental health issues. We are committed to providing flexible programming to strengthen the health and wellness of youth, parents/caregivers and families across the communities of South Vancouver Island. We believe that when people are invited to look for solutions in the context of their important relationships they can discover creative and usef... more...