Boys & Girls Clubs of South Coast BC
Addictions / Substance Use, Child Services, Employment, Family / Parenting, Mental Health - Adult & Senior, Mental Health - Child & Youth, Social / Recreational, and Youth Services
Provided by Boys and Girls Club
Provides a safe, supportive place where children and youth can experience new opportunities, overcome barriers, build positive relationships, and develop confidence and skills for life.
Boys & Girls Clubs give children and youth what they deserve: a place to belong when they aren’t at home or in school.
Program Includes:
Counselling and Support services:
- Substance use counselling services: A program for youth and their families affected by substance use. The services include: individual, family and/or group counselling, drop-in, social/recreational activities, referrals, drug/alcohol information, and education, crisis intervention
- Early Years Services: The program encourages children to learn through play, focusing on early literacy experiences, strengthening parenting skills, and promoting family and community engagement.
Early years program includes:
- Family drop-in
- Parent Connect: Provides support, advocacy, and parenting information to families living in Delta, British Columbia, with children ages 0 to 6
- Parent-Child Mother Goose: Enable parents to gain the skill and confidence to create positive family patterns during a child’s crucial years
- Parent-Child Learning Together: Program for parents and their children (aged 3 to 5 years) that enable parents to increase their knowledge of child development and learn ways to support their children to develop their social and emotional well-being
- Family empowerment Group: Provides mothers with the emotional support that will help to build self-esteem, overcome isolation, and strengthen their family life
- Growing & Learning together – Nurturing ourselves and our babies: A group for young moms
Employment services: Program provides three weeks of training covering skills specific to customer service and retail sales jobs, interview techniques unique to those roles, resume and cover letter preparation for those jobs, Training, and certifications (such as Cashier Training, FoodSafe, First Aid, etc.), Tours of work sites along with guaranteed job interviews with employers
One-to-one coaching to help you find a good job.
Eligibility:
- Aged 18 to 24 by the start of the program (programs typically run once a month)
- Legally entitled to work in Canada
- Unemployed or precariously employed
- Not participating in another government-funded employment program
- Not a full-time student
Boys & Girls Clubs of South Coast BC's 12 neighbourhood-based clubs serve Burnaby, East Vancouver, Ladner, Langley, Mount Pleasant, North Delta, North Vancouver, Richmond, South Vancouver, Surrey, and Tsawwassen.
Location finder: https://www.bgcbc.ca/what-we-do/clubs/
604-879-6554 (Vancouver office)
Public email: info@bgcbc.ca
Website: https://www.bgcbc.ca/
604-591-9262 (North Delta office)
Referral options:
- Self-referral
Associated Programs/Services
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- Employment Services - South Coast BC
- Parents Forever - Support Group for Parents of Youth Who are Abusing Substances
Availability
Service area: Anmore, Bowen Island, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Langley, Lions Bay, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Richmond, Surrey, Vancouver, West Vancouver, White Rock
Service Types Provided
Addictions / Substance Use
Employment
- Employment Support
Family / Parenting
Mental Health - Adult & Senior
Mental Health - Child & Youth
Social / Recreational
Ways to Access
- Provided at multiple locations
- Provided in a group in-person
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