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Your B.C. Government

Mental Health and Addictions

Your B.C. Government is providing treatment for people with mental health and addiction problems by funding programs across the province that help individuals to address their conditions and live healthier, fuller lives.

What your B.C. Government is doing for Mental Health and Addictions:

  • Opened the 100 bed Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addictions to provide a safe facility for persons with concurrent disorders who are not able to operate in community based mental health facilities.
  • Opened The Crossing, a long-term youth residential treatment facility in Keremeos – providing 42 beds.
  • Government opened more than 396 beds across B.C. as part of the Riverview Redevelopment Project, replacing centralized services with smaller, more home-like settings closer to residents’ home communities of Kamloops, Osoyoos, Cranbrook, Vernon, Trail, Penticton, Delta, Coquitlam, Comox, Victoria, Prince George, Fort St. John, Smithers, and Terrace. Additional projects are presently under construction or planning processes.
  • The Province has increased by 150 per cent the number of community addiction beds since 2003, for a total of almost 2,200 today.
  • Added almost 2,900 new community mental health beds since 2001, for a total complement of more than 7,700 beds.
  • In 2008/09, your government expects to spend $1.2 billion on Mental Health and Addictions – an increase of more than 42 per cent since 2001.
  • Opened a new mental health building in 2007 at Children’s Hospital in Vancouver which brings under one roof all tertiary inpatient psychiatric services for children and adolescents with mental health conditions.
  • Your B.C. Government fully funded the $125-million Mental Health Plan and committed $138 million in capital funding to build or expand mental health facilities across the province as part of the Riverview Redevelopment Project.
  • Currently in the process of developing the next 10-year Mental Health and Substance Use Plan for B.C.

For more information:
B.C. Mental Health and Addictions
PHSA Mental Health and Addictions Services