Provincial Mental Health
Helps families across the province navigate the mental health system, connect with peer support, and access resources and tools to support well-being.
Connecting you with resources and information for every stage of the eating disorder journey.
Supports young people, families, and professionals, in order to enhance the quality of experiences and services for child and youth mental health.
Autism Support
A B.C. based, non-profit that helps the autism community live their best lives. We empower, support, and connect the autism community in BC.
PFAN is a network of support for families and individuals with autism and related neurodiversities.
Resources
Helps government better support adults with a developmental disability, teens with special needs, and family members and other support providers
Barrier-Free Canada advocates for a barrier-free Canada for all persons with disabilities
Find support near you for children who have suffered or witnessed crime
BCEdAccess Society serves families of students with disabilities all over the province of British Columbia. The stories shared on their private discussion board daily illustrate the depth of the challenges families face in pursuing equitable access to education in BC schools.
Family Net is an independent provincial network that provides a provincial voice for children and youth with special needs, adults with developmental disabilities, and their families.
Works to ensure that public sector organizations are treating people fairly and following the rules. They listen to and investigate complaints about local and provincial public sector organizations, as well as investigate reports of serious wrongdoing in the provincial government. Services are free and confidential
The BC People First Society works to make sure that people with a developmental disability are respected and included in communities as full citizens.
BC’s Representative for Children and Youth supports the province’s young people and their families in dealing with the provincial child and youth welfare system. The Representative also provides oversight to this system and makes recommendations to improve it. The Representative is a non-partisan, independent officer of the legislature.
The Office of the Seniors Advocate monitors and analyzes seniors services and issues in BC, making recommendations to government and service providers to address systemic issues.
BRAIN is a support network based out of New Westminster that strives to meet the needs of survivors of brain injury, family members, friends, and caregivers. They provide resource materials, advocacy, information, and networking opportunities.
Promotes social justice, accessibility and inclusion for people who have speech, language and communication disabilities
Community Living BC provides advocacy support and helps persons with disabilities build self-advocacy skills.
CCD is a national human rights organization of people with disabilities working for an inclusive and accessible Canada.
Disability Alliance BC provides income advocacy and assistance, mentorship, and planning support for people with all disabilities.
This tool helps people find disability advocates and legal support nearest them.
First Call BC puts the province’s children and youth first through public education, community mobilization, and public policy advocacy.
Housing and legal advocacy for persons living in Vancouver.
Inclusion BC builds community and enhances the lives of children and youth with special needs, adults with developmental disabilities, and their families by promoting action and advancing rights and social justice.
Helps protect children and respond to cases of abuse, supporting the children and family throughout the process
Works collaboratively to find creative solutions to, and educate about, barriers within communities. Projects include: accessibility, transportation, advocacy, empowerment, disability awareness, poverty, 2SLGBTQIA+ (Queer) issues, disability justice, and more.
A free and independent dispute-resolution service for banking and investment complaints.
Pacific Dawn’s mission is to end the poverty, isolation, discrimination and violence experienced by women with disabilities.
A national voice for people who have been labelled with an intellectual disability. People First is about rights – human rights, citizenship rights, accommodations rights and language rights.
Plan Institute is a non-profit social enterprise that works to improve the lives of people with disabilities by collaborating on community-based projects, offering a suite of learning initiatives, and advocating for policy reform.
PLAN helps families and people with disabilities feel confident about the future by making careful plans and fostering supportive relationships to be safe, secure, and fully included in the community.
An international awareness and advocacy campaign to support those affected by prenatal alcohol exposure.
Community Living BC’s province-wide community councils advocate for the community inclusion of persons with disabilities, working on projects related to inclusive housing, community-mapping for accessibility, and more.
SALN is a network of self-advocates working towards communities for all.
An impressive collection of self-advocacy resources.
Free legal education and advocacy for BC tenants.