Downtown Eastside Youth Outreach Team (YOT)
Addictions / Substance Use, Housing / Shelter, and Public Health
Provided by Vancouver Coastal Health
Provides outreach, clinical and support service to hard to reach youth.
The Downtown Eastside Youth Outreach Team (YOT) currently runs at the Downtown Community Health Centre. It is a multi-disciplinary team that provides outreach and temporary clinical and support services with the goal of engaging hard-to-reach youth, establishing rapport, trust and bridging youth to longer term services. The target population are vulnerable and hard-to-reach youth between the ages of 15 to 24 who are:
Homeless and/or unstably housed
Have complex mental health and/ or substance use and/or complex physical health needs
Are not accessing services elsewhere and/or who are not well connected to care
Services offered include:
Case Management
Access to primary care
Cultural & spiritual support
Street outreach in the DTES
Help connecting with services(including longer term community supports)
Harm reduction supplies & education
Services offered include:
604-675-3550
Public email: dtesyouthoutreach@vch.ca
Website: https://www.vch.ca/en/location...
786 Powell Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6A 1H6
Monday to Friday 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Service is available in English.
Cost: No cost
Referral options:
- Self-referral
- Physician or nurse practitioner referral
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Availability
Service area: Vancouver + show cities
Service Types Provided
Addictions / Substance Use
Housing / Shelter
Public Health
The listing of this service in Pathways is not a recommendation or endorsement by Pathways.