Youth Short Term Assessment and Response (Y Star) - Youth Substance Use Program

Addictions / Substance Use, Mental Health - Child & Youth, and Services for Youth

Provided by Island Health

Provides trauma-informed and culturally safe support, and connection to other community-based services for youth in crisis who are presenting with primary substance use concerns (with and without co-occurring mental health concerns).
Y-STAR teams work to improve the mental health and social functioning of youth by supporting substance use treatment, distributing harm reduction resources, and providing navigation access to other resources and care for youth and their families/caregivers across Vancouver Island. Each team Y-STAR team is unique to the community served and is based on identified local needs. Teams can include Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU) crisis nurses, social workers, counsellors, clinicians, and youth/family support workers.

Y-STAR Services Include:
  • Outreach
  • Harm reduction
  • Transition support
  • Connections to services
  • Crisis assessment and response
  • Substance use treatment support
  • Resource and referral coordination
  • Overdose prevention and follow-up
How to Access Y-STAR
  • Youth aged 12-24 years old
  • Youth must reside in the Island Health region
  • A referral is required, and is accepted when any of the following contact Y-STAR directly: emergency departments, clinicians with Island Health’s Child, Youth & Family MHSU Services, pediatricians, and family physicians or nurse practitioners (physicians see below for more information)
  • The team responds to youth with significant substance use concerns, who may or may not have co-occurring mental health concerns. This is done in community locales such as schools, homes, parks, and street-based settings, or if the youth is in an emergency department / after they are discharged.

Website: https://www.islandhealth.ca/news...

250-519-5274 (Victoria)

3rd Floor, 818 Douglas Street, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 2B6

250-737-2029 (Duncan)

Public email: ystarcowichan@islandhealth.ca

2041 Tzouhalem Road, Duncan, British Columbia, V9L 4H2

250-739-5790 (Nanaimo)

#206, 96 Cavan Street, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 2V1

250-731-1358 (Port Alberni)

5050 Strathern Street, Port Alberni, British Columbia

250-850-2188 (Campbell River)

#Unit A, 220 Dogwood Street, Campbell River, British Columbia

250-902-6063 (Port Hardy) ext. 66962

7305 Market Street, Port Hardy, British Columbia

Cost: No cost

Referral options:

  • Family physician or nurse practitioner referral
  • Emergency Department referral
  • Child Youth and Family MHSU Clinician referral
  • Pediatrician referral
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Availability

Service area: Island Health Area + show cities

Service area cities: Alert Bay, Bamfield, Black Creek, Brentwood Bay, Campbell River, Cathedral Grove, Chemainus, Cobble Hill, Comox, Coombs, Cortes Island, Courtenay, Cumberland, Deep Bay, Denman Island, Duncan, Fanny Bay, Gabriola Island, Galiano Island, Gold River, Hornby Island, Horne Lake, Kyuquot, Ladysmith, Lake Cowichan, Langford, Lantzville, Long Beach, Mayne Island, Merville, Mill Bay, Nanaimo, Nanoose Bay, Nitinaht, North Saanich, Parksville, Pender Island, Penelakut Island, Port Alberni, Port Alice, Port Hardy, Port McNeill, Quadra Island, Qualicum Beach, Quathiaski Cove, Saanich, Saanichton, Salt Spring Island, Saturna Island, Sayward, Shawnigan Lake, Sidney, Sointula, Sooke, Tahsis, Tofino, Ucluelet, and Victoria

Service Types Provided
Addictions / Substance Use
Mental Health - Child & Youth
Services for Youth
Ways to Access
  • Provided 1:1 in-person
  • Provided at multiple locations

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