To improve, maintain, and ensure quality mental health and addiction services are delivered and accessible to all communities across Syilx territory.
The Mental Health & Substance Use Advocate helps to build community capacity, promote harm reduction, reduce stigma and shame, decrease rates of overdose, and promote healing.
What Our Team Does
We serve the service providers, the frontline workers, and partners who work directly with community members in need of services. We help address underlying issues in trauma-related addictions within a culturally-informed framework.
We also work directly with high risk mental health clients in community.
- Referral process support
- Case management support
- Education and training to service providers
- Collaborate on assessment tools, orientation, and communication forms that support clients with complex mental health and addictions issues
Who Can Access Services?
Open to Nation members, their families, and Indigenous people living on reserve. Focused on youth, adults, individuals, and families affected by mental health and/or addictions.
Referrals can be made through Syilx Nation Member Communities Health & Wellness Staff.
Community Services
- Harm reduction education
- Work with community-based teams
- Clinical interventions when communities are impacted by trauma including working with the Crisis Response Team (ONRT)
Individual Services
- Case management support
- Help navigate the system including: treatment, hospital, court, etc.
- Advocate for members
- Support with planning, assessment, treatment, and post-treatment
Trainings and workshops are open to all community members 15 years and up.
Contact
Bobbi Brewer, Mental Health and Substance Use Advocate
Phone: 250-859-1604
Email: MH-Addictions@syilx.org