Treatment & INTAKE SUPPORT

GENERAL MENTAL HEALTH & SUBSTANCE USE SERVICES BY COMMUNITY:
(including Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, Dawson Creek, Chetwynd, & Tumbler Ridge)

Northern Health

Residential Treatment

North Wind Wellness Centre

Box 2480 Station A
Dawson Creek, B.C.
V1G 4T9
1-888-698-4333

Website: www.northwindwellnesscentre.ca/

About 

North Wind Healing Centre implements a Bio-Psycho-Social affective-based treatment program to help participants heal from the heart. A 45-day, culturally based, residential treatment program for ages 19.

Day Treatment

Supportive Recovery

About 

Supportive recovery beds contracted to deliver low to moderate support in a safe, structured living arrangement, free from alcohol and illict drugs, in which the client resides during the course of recovery.

Withdrawal management / medical detoxification 

About 

Allocated beds for substance use withdrawal/medical detoxification. Each location has varied numbers of beds and age requirements. Support provided by a mental health and addictions clinical nurse.

Fort Nelson General Hospital

5315 Liard Street
Bag 1000
Fort Nelson, BC  V0C 1R0
250-774-8100

Nechako Youth Treatment Program

1308 Alward Street
Prince George, BC V2M 7B1
250-565-2881

Prince George Adult Withdrawal
Management unit

1308 Alward Street
Prince George, BC V2M 7B1
250-565-2175

Intensive Case Management 

About 

The overall purpose of the Intensive Case Management Team (ICMT) is to improve health care and outcomes for individuals and families who are impacted by problematic substance use or addiction with or without mental illness, and are experiencing functional challenges related to community living, including housing and income, through the provision of intensive community- based outreach services.

Fort St. John ICMT Outreach Services

#172 – 8407-112 Avenue
Fort St John, BC V1J 0J5
250-261-7271

Dawson Creek ICMT Outreach services

1001 – 110th Avenue
Dawson Creek, BC V1G 4X3
250-719-6525

First Nations Mobile Support

Fort St. John Hospital &
Peace Villa Facility 

8407-112th Ave
Fort St. John, BC V1J 0J5
250-261-7271

About Fort St. John First Nations
Response Team

The First Nations Mobile Support Team members have specialized training in mental health and substance use disorders and they provide a continuum of services to communities. They collaborate with individual First Nation communities to improve and refine culturally responsive care and services for communities and individuals and support community-driven Nation-based local health planning.

Opiate Agonist Therapy

About 

These programs provide opioid substitution (methadone/suboxone) treatment services to individuals with drug dependency and offer individual counselling, education, support, and methadone treatment interdisciplinary case management.

Fort St. John Mental Health
& aDDICTION sERVICES

Suite 300-9900-100 Avenue
Fort St John BC V1J 5S7
250-263-6080

DAWSON CREEK METHADONE OPIATE AGONIST THERAPY PROGRAM

Dawson Creek Health Unit
1001 110th Street
Dawson Creek, BC V1G 4X3

250-719-6525

cHETWYND mENTAL hEALTH & aDDICTIONS cOMMUNITY pROGRAM

5125 – 50th Street SW (across from Post Office) Box 148
Chetwynd, BC V0C 1J0
250-744-8100

oUTPATIENT sUPPORTS

About 

These various supports, services and programs range from intake, crisis response, short term counselling, longer term case management, medication management, life skills, education, psychiatric consultation and psycho-educational groups. Some cater specifically to First Nation and Aboriginal patients, and some cater to all demographics.

Aboriginal Family Services Dawson Creek: 250-782-1169

Chetwynd Mental Health &Addictions Community Program: 250-788-7300

Chetwynd Tansi Friendship Centre: 250-788-2996

Dawson Creek Mental Health & Addictions Community Program: 250-719-6525, Toll Free: 1-888-592-2711

Fort Nelson Aboriginal Friendship Society: 250-774-2300

Fort Nelson First Nation Health & Wellness Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program: 250-774-2300

Fort Nelson Mental Health & Addictions Services Interprofessional Team (IPT): 250-774-7092

Fort St. John Friendship Society: 250-785-3411

Fort St. John Mental Health & Addictions Services:
250-263-6080

Tumbler Ridge Mental Health & Addictions Community Program: 250-242-5505