Helping People Find their Way

The Vancouver Island Crisis Society is contracted by Provincial Health Services 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 registered non-profit agency whose services include 24-hour Crisis Lines, as well as Crisis Chat and Crisis Text services, through which we provide short-term nonjudgemental support, crisis intervention, information, and resources; training in schools with youth, teachers, counsellors, and parents; suicide bereavement support throughout Vancouver Island, as well as regional consultation and workshops regarding suicide bereavement support; and various workshops and customized training addressing suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and communication skills and other three-hour workshops for individuals and agencies throughout our communities.

We also work in partnership with Island Health to provide public access to Mental Health and Substance Use crisis teams in the communities administered by Island Health.

We support people of all ages including folks from senior, youth, military, Indigenous, and LGBTQIA2S+ communities. Group-specific resources can be accessed from our Community Resource Database, which we also share with those who access our Crisis Services, and from a set of Resource Links, which includes resources pertaining to suicide.