Julia Gillis | BC Schizophrenia Society

  • Vancouver Island Virtual Family Support Group

    Vancouver Island Virtual Family Support Group
    BCSS - Virtual British Columbia, Canada

    Do you have a friend or family member living with mental illness? – You are not alone  BCSS Vancouver Island Region is running virtual Family Support Groups for family members and close friends who are supporting a loved one with a severe and persistent mental illness.  BCSS Family Support Groups offer a safe and supportive environment...

  • Vancouver Island Virtual LEAP Workshop

    BCSS - Virtual British Columbia, Canada

    LEAP (Listen-Empathize-Agree-Partner®) is a set of evidence-based practices that create therapeutic alliances and trusting relationships with people suffering from severe mental illness. Designed to build and strengthen mutual respect, it helps people who are non-adherent, or partially adherent, to become more cooperative and engaged in treatment and services, including medication, psychotherapy, psychosocial programs, club houses,...

  • South Vancouver Island Family Support Group

    Do you have a friend or family member living with mental illness? – You are not alone  BCSS Vancouver Island Region is running in-person Family Support Groups for family members and close friends who are supporting a loved one with a severe and persistent mental illness.  BCSS Family Support Groups offer a safe and supportive environment...

  • We acknowledge that the lands on which BCSS operates and supports families are the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Peoples. We are honoured and privileged to live and work on this land we all share. We are committed to reconciliation, decolonization, learning from and with Indigenous peoples, and building relationships within our communities.