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Sumac Place Tertiary Mental Health and Substance Use

Need help immediately?

If there is a life-threatening safety concern, please call 9-1-1 or go to the Emergency Department at your nearest hospital.

Suicide prevention hotline: 1-800-784-2433

BC Crisis Line: 604-310-6789

Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868

Indigenous Crisis and Support Line - KUU-US Crisis Support Line: 1-800-588-8717

Harm reduction: Toward the Heart 

Tertiary services provide special holistic, wellness-based support and treatment for adults with serious mental illness whose needs are not met within secondary services such as hospitals, residential care and community.

How to access

  • Get a referral

    Your health care professional will complete a referral form. The Tertiary Mental Health and Substance Use Central Access and Discharge team will review the information. A committee of experts from across the VCH/PHC region will discuss and decide which tertiary program is right for you at this time.

  • We will contact your health-care professional

    When a space is available in the designated program, the Tertiary Mental Health and Substance Use Central Access and Discharge team will contact the health-care professional who completed the referral. Plans will be made with you and your family to make your transition to the program as smooth as possible.

Hours of operation

Currently open

We operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Visiting hours: Daily. Please check at the Team Base for specific hours.

How to get here

From the Lower Mainland, a ferry from Horseshoe Bay to Langdale. From there you can take public transit, or drive off the ferry and continue up the hill, turn left. At the stop sign go to the right onto North Road. You continue down North Road, through the traffic light at Reed Road, continue for two blocks. Turn right onto Kiwanis way and follow it around (one and a half blocks) to Sumac Place.

Transit directions

Please visit www.translink.ca to find details from your area.

Parking

There is street parking in front of the building with no restrictions.

Resources

Sumac Place

Sumac Place is a newly renovated, 28-bed facility in Gibsons BC. The facility is part of the Tertiary Mental Health and Addiction Services at VCH.

Tertiary Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Mental health tertiary services are specialized services for people with serious and long-lasting mental illnesses. Some people may also have needs related to drugs or alcohol.