How to Get Help for Substance Use
a) Your physical and mental health.
b) Whether detox support is needed before starting treatment.
c) Review treatment options including treatment centres.
d) The support we can provide while you wait for additional help.
RESOURCES
SFN Counselling: 250-740-2337
SFN Doctor: 250-740-2345
FNHA Doctor: 1-855-344-3800 (7 days a week 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.)
FNHA Counselling: 1-855-550-5454
FREE NALOXONE KITS AND DRUG TESTING
CMHA: 250 Albert Street, Nanaimo, BC. The entrance is on Dunsmuir St. They offer Naloxone kits, drug testing, and other harm reduction supplies and resources.
Other places to test your drugs and get harm reduction supplies: https://www.islandhealth.ca/…/drug-checking-services
Friendship Centre: 602 Haliburton St, Nanaimo, BC. Many other locations are available, please see: https://towardtheheart.com/site-finder
TALK TO SOMEONE ON THE PHONE OR ONLINE
The Hope for Wellness Help Line is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for counselling and crisis intervention.
Call the toll-free Help Line at 1-855-242-3310 or connect to the online chat (Please use Google Chrome).
Provides suitable homes for SFN Members as housing allocations become available, on and off reserve.
Please contact Housing Services at 250-740-2300 for more information.
Need help with BC Housing registration? Contact BC Housing Assistance. Phone: 604-433-2218 or toll free from anywhere in B.C. at 1-800-257-775
This renovation program is fair to all community members. Currently, the bulk of housing renovation income is derived from external agencies. As housing relies heavily on outside resources for renovation funding, we must abide by certain rules (CMHC/ISC rules). Housing would like to make sure that every eligible home will be looked at for current and/or future renovations. We will also make sure that renovations are completed to B.C. building code standards.
Our SFN Housing department can assist Elders with repairs and/or renovations to their own home in keeping with Health and Safety requirements. This is a subsidized program that requires a professional assessment process and must meet funding guidelines. Elders need to contact SFN's Housing Department office for more information.
Please contact Housing Services at 250-740-2300 for more information.
Housing provides a maintenance program for the CMHC social housing units as well as elders and a few other contributing housing units. The continued goal is to provide a service for repairs and maintenance that is as efficient and timely as possible.
Our SFN Housing department can assist Elders with repairs and/or renovations to their own home in keeping with Health and Safety requirements. This is a subsidized program that requires a professional assessment process and must meet funding guidelines. Elders need to contact SFN's Housing Department office for more information.
Housing is taking steps to improving overall workmanship conducted on SFN homes. Housing is currently working with other SFN administrative staff in developing standard contracts and retaining the services of certified building professionals for inspection services.
Please contact Housing Services at 250-740-2300 for more information.
Each year, SFN Housing conducts assessments.
This applies to:
1) SFN owned Homes
2) Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) funding applications
3) Health and Safety for residents
The reason for these assessments:
• Make sure housing files are kept current and up to date.
• Provides the basis for future funding applications
• Is a requirement of the funding agencies
• Provides SFN housing with a database of information for future planning.
Please contact Housing Services at 250-740-2300 for more information.
In order to keep the housing programs sustainable, rent collections are imperative. Snuneymuxw First Nation Housing would not be able to make the necessary repairs or renovations if there is no rental income collected.
Please contact Housing Services at 250-740-2300 for more information.
For residents that want to add, change, remove, or do updates to their on reserve homes.
Click here to fill out the application form.
Snuneymuxw First Nation is one of the largest Nations in B.C. with a population of approximately 2,000 people. We are one of the few Nations that have a pre-Confederation treaty with the Crown – the Sarlequun Snuneymuxw Treaty of 1854.
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