British Columbia Schizophrenia Society

How to Make a Donation

To Donate: Click here to donate online, send a cheque payable to the BC Schizophrenia Society to 201 - 6011 Westminster Hwy, Richmond , BC V7C 4V4 or click here or the link above for more options.

Jodi and Harpreet’s Half-Marathon Fundraiser for BCSS

Dear friends, We (Jodi Diamond and long time running partner, Harpreet Chauhan) will be doing the Victoria Half Marathon on October 10th. We have decided to run on behalf of the BC Schizophrenia Society. As we both work in mental health, we see daily how devastating mental illness can be for the ones afflicted and for their [...]

Creating a Charitable Remainder Trust

What is a Charitable Remainder Trust? A Charitable Remainder Trust is a formal trust which is created by you,(the Settlor), in which you give property (usually cash) to an individual or professional organization (the Trustee), to hold in trust for yourself (the life tenant) for your life time. On your death, the property held in trust [...]

BCSS Programs and Services – Providing Great Value

In the 2009-10 fiscal year alone, BCSS provincial coordinators responded to 5,684 calls and over 35,000 emails for support and information, attended 1,700 meetings, organized 390 support group sessions, and presented to over 34,000 members of the public

2009-10 Financial Snapshot

Summary: BCSS’s regional programs and services provided by regional support and project coordinators are funded 100% by the health regions those services benefit. These services include family support, support to branches and community education. Services provided province-wide are funded through a combination of sources, mostly the provincial government and fund raising. The majority of provincial office expenditures [...]

Canada Post Foundation Funds Training for Strengthening Families Together Program

BCSS has received a grant from the Canada Post Foundation for $41,000 to provide training to coordinators and volunteers around the province on how to deliver family support and education through the Strengthening Families Together program and the NAMI support group training. The final session of training was delivered in February 2010 in Prince George with great success, [...]

Types of Donations

By making a financial contribution, your generosity can help families affected by mental illness, assist them to better cope with their loved one's illness, and give additional hope and support. You can make an outright or deferred gift to support our work in many ways. Click on the link above for more details and to find a way that fits you.

Planned Giving

Planned Giving is a way to donate to the charity of your choice in a more formally structured manner. Examples of planned giving types are: bequests, designating BCSS as a RRSP, RRIF or insurance policy, donating shares or stocks, charitable trusts, charitable gift annuities, endowment funds and discretionary trusts. We can assist you in making these types of donations to the BC Schizophrenia Society.

Donate Your HBC Rewards Points to BCSS

The HBC Rewards Community program allows its members to take an active role in their community by raising funds effortlessly for BCSS. Community Group members simply use their HBC Rewards Card every time they shop at the HBC family of stores and at HBC partner locations, and their points automatically come to BCSS, to enable us to purchase [...]

Stay in Touch in Your Region

About BCSS Vancouver / Richmond

Coordinator information

Vancouver/ Richmond Linda Proudfoot (604) 247-1884 tel/fax Richmond BC email linda

Stay in touch by subscribing to our Vancouver / Richmond E-Newsletter

[For more e-newsletters giving monthly resource updates for Family Members, Mental Health Professionals and Teachers, as well as our provincial newsletter, please click here.]

Partnership Education

Partnership Education is based on a personal storytelling model. It is a unique and powerful presentation that helps people in the community to understand the nature and prevalence of chronic and severe mental illness.

Family Support Buddy Program

The program matches volunteers with persons who are family members of persons with a serious and persistent mental illness. The volunteers, who are also family members of a person with a mental illness, provide peer listening and some information during a weekly phone call or visit. The program is now underway in selected regions of BC and is being looked at for implementation as far away as New Zealand.

B.R.I.D.G.E.S. Education and Support Program

BRIDGES is a course taught by consumers for consumers. BRIDGES helps people learn things that will help them in their journey to recovery. People who have taken the course find it helps them to be part of their own treatment. In the course, students learn about psychiatric diagnoses. They also learn about what mental health treatments work best.

Partnership Puppeteer Program

A puppet show that educates grade 4/5 students in order to give them accurate information and to dispel the myths and misunderstandings about mental illness.