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  • Vancouver Island Virtual LEAP Workshop

    BCSS Vancouver Island - Virtual Parksville, BC, Canada

    Join us for an interactive virtual workshop to learn and practice the LEAP method with other families, friends, and caregivers. 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,...

  • Vancouver Island Virtual LEAP Workshop

    BCSS Vancouver Island - Virtual Parksville, BC, Canada

    Join us for an interactive virtual workshop to learn and practice the LEAP method with other families, friends, and caregivers. 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,...

  • Strengthening Families Together – Vancouver Island

    BCSS Vancouver Island - Virtual Parksville, BC, Canada

    Strengthening Families Together (SFT) is a six-session program that provides knowledge, support, and tools for families to better cope with serious mental illnesses. Participating families learn about the impacts of stigma as well as information about psychosis, schizophrenia, mood disorders, and other severe and persistent mental illnesses. Topics covered include treatments for mental illness, side...

  • 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.