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Programs and Services
Programs and Services – Health and Outreach
- Educational programs
- Prenatal information and support
- Prevention workshops
- Support to make a difference to people with FAS/FAE
- Support for families in the community who are surviving FAS
- Resource library
- one-to-one bereavement and palliative support
- grief groups
- educational workshops
- professional support
- volunteer training
- an excellent resource library available to the public
- Support and counselling
- Parent support, information, and education
- Intake and referral services
- Play therapy for children
- Youth work
- Community information and referrals
- Health and lifestyle education
- Employee assistance programs
- Lending library
- emotional, physical, and sexual abuse
- harassment
- neglect
- relationship violence to youth and adults who work with youth
- birth control
- emergency birth control
- options if you think you may be pregnant
- sexually transmitted diseases
- puberty and how our reproductive systems work
- rape and abuse
- sexual orientation
- Prenatal Nutrition Outreach Program
- Traditional Parenting Program
- Urban Multipurpose Aboriginal Youth Centre
- Recreation Centre
- open gym and computer lab
- childcare
- monthly swim nights for the whole family with free transportation for downtown families
- parenting classes
- cooking
- literacy intiatives
- stained glass mosaics
- stencilling
- knitting
- scrapbooking
- and more!
- therapeutic support with mental health issues
- substance abuse issues
- trauma and grief issues
- relationship and family issues
Alcohol and Drug Services - Yukon Health and Social Services
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Description:: Alcohol and Drug Services offers addiction prevention, education and counseling/treatment services to students in grades 5 to 12 in Whitehorse schools. The Youth Addiction Counselors offer partnerships with community youth organizations to provide counseling, training and capacity building. For more information, visit the Alcohol and Drug Services website. Contact: : 6118 - 6th Avenue (Sarah Steele Building)
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Alcoholics Anonymous, Alanon, Alateen
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Description: Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. Contact: AA Yukon Hotline: (867)668-5878. Please call for a meeting schedule. |
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Description:: The Anger Management program uses an educational treatment approach to equip young people with the skills needed to manage anger and other emotions associated with aggression and anti-social behaviour. The program involves ten 1.5 hour sessions and there is a pre-intake assessment for each participant. Contact: : Youth Achievement Centre
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. Contact: : Phone: 867-862-4444 |
Better to Know: Sexual Health Information
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Description: A website with answers to all your sexual health information questions. Provides information on a range of sexual health topics. Also includes email and telephone contact information to put you in touch with trained health care professionals. Contact: |
Blood Ties Four Directions Centre
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Description:: Providing support and education for individuals, families, agencies and communities in relation to HIV/AIDS and HEPATITIS C. Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday – 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Contact: : 307 Strickland Street
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C.O.R.E. - Circles of Respect and Equality
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Description:: A Yukon interagency group dedicated to stopping violence against women and children. C.O.R.E. has developed a number of resources to assist women leaving abusive relationships. For more information, please visit the C.O.R.E. website. Contact: : Phone VictimLINK: 1-800-563-0808 |
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. Contact: : Phone: 867-821-4444 |
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. Contact: : Phone: 867-863-4444 |
Child Abuse Treatment Services (CATS)
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Description:: CATS provides workshops, consultations, training and counseling in Whitehorse and in the communities. The unit is staffed by one supervisor, a full-time intake worker, and five full counselors. Confidentiality is a priority.
Contact: : 415 Baxter Street |
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. For more information, visit the Health and Social Services – Community Health Centres webpage. Contact: : Phone: (867)667-8864 |
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. Contact: : Phone: 867-993-4444 |
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Description:: The Dawson City Women's Shelter provides refuge to women and children in crisis and offers youth programs as well as programs and services promoting healthy relationships, family violence awareness, prenatal nutrition, healing, personal growth and development. Contact: : Box 784 |
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. Contact: : Phone: 867-841-4444 |
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. Contact: : Phone: 867-994-4444 |
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Society of Yukon
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Description: Services provided by Fetal Alcohol Society: Contact: Phone: (867)393-4948 |
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Description:: Freevibe.com is an interactive site that engages youth in a dialogue about drugs. It contains drug facts, tips for saying no, a message board, and other useful information. |
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Yukon (GALA)
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Description:: GALA Yukon strives to establish and maintain a social, recreational, educational and political outlet for the gay and lesbian, bisexual and transgender, multicultural community. GALA also provides emotional support to LGBT people, including youth. For more information, visit the GALA Yukon website. Contact: : P.O. Box 31678 |
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. Contact: : Phone: 867-634-4444 |
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Description:: The Health Promotion Unit provides health education programs for all people of all ages in all Yukon communities. Information is available on tobacco use reduction and prevention, nutrition and reproductive health. For more information on health programs, visit the Health Promotion Unit webpage. For more information on tobacco reduction and prevention, visit www.smokersline.ca or www.freequitpack.ca. For more information on reproductive health, visit www.factsoflife.com.
Contact: : 305 Jarvis St., 2nd floor |
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Description: Hospice Yukon Society is a non-profit, volunteer-based society that provides support for individuals and their loved ones facing advanced illness, death and bereavement, enhancing quality of life through skilled and compassionate care, education and advocacy. For more information, visit Hospice Yukon's website. Contact: Hospice Yukon Society |
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Description:: This non-profit organization provides bilingual telephone counseling, information and referral services to children aged 4-19 who need help with a wide variety of problems, issues and concerns. It is a completely confidential and non-traceable service. For more information, visit the Kids Help Phone website. Contact: : Toll-free for kids: 1-800-668-6868 |
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. Contact: : 35 MacIntyre Dr. |
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Description:: Les EssentiElles was created to promote solidarity between French, English and First Nations women, as well as with other Yukon and national organizations, in order to improve all women's conditions and to break the isolation faced by French women living in a minority setting. The group also provides listening and referral services to Francophone women in the Yukon. For more information, please visit the Les EssentiElles website. Contact: : 302 Strickland |
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Description:: Let's Talk Drugs is a secondary prevention and education program exploring personal substance abuse issues and offering general information on drugs and the difference between use, abuse and addiction. Contact: : Youth Achievement Centre Phone: (867)667-3759 |
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Description:: The Liquor Tickert Program is an alcohol-related educational program that provides an opportunity for youth to examine realities and risks that alcohol creates in a young person's life. Consists of one two-hour group session. Contact: : Youth Achievement Centre |
Many Rivers Counselling and Support Services
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Description:: The goal of Many Rivers is to promote healthy relationships within the family, in the workplace and the community. Many Rivers services include: For more information, please visit the Many Rivers website. Contact: : Many Rivers has offices in Whitehorse, Dawson City, Haines Junction, and Watson Lake. From these offices we provide regular counselling and family support , and we regularly extend our services from these locations to Teslin, Carcross, Carmacks, Mayo, Pelly Crossing, Destruction Bay, Burwash Landing, and Beaver Creek. In Whitehorse: (867)667-2970 |
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. Contact: : Phone: 867-996-4444 |
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. Contact: : Phone: 867-966-4444 |
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. Contact: : Phone: 867-537-4444 |
Residential Youth Treatment Services (RYTS)
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Description:: RYTS provides both short-term care for children at the Children’s Receiving Home and long-term, group home care. Group homes Contact: : Suite 202, 211 Hawkins Street |
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Description:: A violence and abuse prevention program from the Canadian Red Cross that addresses issues surrounding: RespectED presentations are delivered by extensively trained volunteers who are carefully screened and are committed to building safer, more respectful relationship in our community. Contact: : Nina Bolton |
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. Contact: : Phone: 867-969-4444 |
Sexual Health Information Toll-free Line
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Description:: Call for information on: Operation hours: Monday to Friday – 9 am to 9 pm. Contact: : 1-877-YK STYLE (1-877-957-8953) |
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Description:: Skookum Jim Friendship Centre is a non-profit organization committed to a vision of bettering the spiritual, emotional, mental and physical well being of First Nations peoples, fostering the way of friendship and understanding between people. The centre provides a number of health and outreach programs and services to First Nations youth. These include: For more information, please visit Skookum Jim's website. Contact: : 3159 Third Ave |
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Description:: The Teen Parent Centre provides educational opportunities and support for pregnant teens and teen parents wishing to complete high-school. The Teen Parent Centre also offers a comprehensive Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies program. For more information on the Teen Parent Centre, please visit their webpage. Contact: : Box 32077 Located behind FH Collins High School |
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Description:: Details of community-specific programs can be obtained by contacting the primary health care nurse in charge of your local health centre during regular business hours. Contact: : Phone: 867-390-4444 |
Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre
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Description:: If you're going through a tough time and need a woman's hand or just need information on women's issues, pay the Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre (VFWC) a visit. Use the phone, internet, laundry or shower, or stop by for Wednesday's "Community Kitchen". Moms and soon-to-be moms can access prenatal programming, recreational programs for moms and kids, attend talks or participate in workshops. A suite is available for pregnant women from the rural communities. For more information, visit the VFWC website. Contact: : 503 Hanson Street |
Watson Lake Help and Home Families Society
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Description:: Home for women and children in crisis. Open 24 hours a day with a 24-hour telephone crisis support line. Provides support groups, children's programs, advocacy, education, referral, resources, outreach and support. Contact: : Primary Telephone: (867)563-7233 |
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Description:: The hospital, a 12-bed acute care facility, provides emergency medical treatment, acute care admission and respite care admission. There are resident physicians in Watson Lake. Contact: : Phone: 867-536-4444 |
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Description:: The Whitehorse Health centre offers a wide-range of public health services including prenatal and post-natal care, mother and child programs, parenting groups and complete immunization needs including foreign travel immunizations. Monday to Friday 8am-5pm. Contact: : 9010 Quartz Rd. |
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Description:: The Whole Child Program (WCP) offers a wide variety of programs & activities to support families in Whitehorse. The program provides a number of support services for families during weekdays including the family resource area, a community coordinator and an outreach worker. Every Wednesday, WCP hosts WCP Night with services and activities including: WCP also offers special interest workshops for families such as: For more information, visit the Whole Child Program website. Contact: : 4181 4th Avenue |
Youth Outreach Program - Many Rivers
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Description:: The Youth Outreach program is based in the Whitehorse Many Rivers office and provides counseling, support and advocacy for youth. Contact: : 4071 – 4th Avenue |
Yukon College Student Services - Counseling Services
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Description:: Student Services provides personal counseling including: Both full and part-time Yukon College students can access personal counseling services, no fees apply. For more information, visit the Yukon College Student Services webpage. Contact: : Phone: (867)668-8720 |
