BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services
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Culturally safe care
Working in partnership
Culturally safe care for Indigenous clients, patients and families
At BCMHSUS, we are strongly committed to eliminating Indigenous-specific racism, embedding Indigenous cultural safety and humility in our programs and services, and improving Indigenous health and wellness.
We support clients, patients, and their families who identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, or Métis).
We support clients, patients, and their families who identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, or Métis).
Collaboration
Partnering with patients and families
Patient experience & community engagement
Since 2019, the team has engaged 182 patient & family partners for a range of opportunities. These include policy focus groups, leadership committees, and hiring panels.
There are 127 lived experience partners in the Patient and Family Partner Network.
There are 127 lived experience partners in the Patient and Family Partner Network.
Meaningful work. Fulfilling careers.
Work with us
Careers with BCMHSUS
Lead and deliver patient-centred, evidence-based care as part of our multidisciplinary teams that include nurses, physicians, dentists, social workers, psychologists, patient navigators, and more.
Learning
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Centre for Learning: Improving care, strengthening hope
A new kind of platform, the Centre for Learning is an online hub offering emerging knowledge, best practices, evidence-based learning and other resources related to complex mental health and substance use issues.
Featured news
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10 Jul 2026
New care facility coming to Prince George
The 72-bed treatment centre for people with complex mental health and substance use needs is being developed in collaboration with the Province, Northern Health, PHSA and BCMHSUS, in partnership with the Lheidli T'enneh First Nation.
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20 Sep 2026
Community voices helping shape the future of mental health and substance use care in Northern BC
With a new care facility in the early stages of development in Prince George, BCMHSUS has been engaging with people with lived and living experience of mental health and substance use, Indigenous community members, and other organizations across Northern BC.
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20 Sep 2026
Introducing the new Peer Rise Recovery College video series
BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services (BCMHSUS) is excited to share the new Peer Rise Recovery College video series, highlighting the transformative role that peer-led education, lived and living experience leadership, and community connection play in supporting recovery.
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02 Jul 2026
Beyond containment: Changing the trajectory of care for incarcerated people
Dr. Vijay Seethapathy shares how BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services has been doing something different to help people in provincial correctional centres get the care they need.
