Victoria counselling centre receives funding for youth migrant services for the first time

For the first four years, the Vancouver Island Counselling Centre for Immigrants and Refugees (VICCIR) in B.C. had no funding.

Vancouver Island Counselling Centre for Immigrants and Refugees/FacebookVancouver Island Counselling Centre for Immigrants and RefugeesCounsellors and interpreters worked free of charge at the Victoria-based organization launched in 2015 to provide mental health services to immigrants and refugees of all ages on Vancouver Island.

B.C. had a recent surge in migration, welcoming more than 100,000 people in 2021 – 67,141 of whom came from outside Canada – the most the province has seen in 60 years. “Children are extremely important. When they’re newcomers, they don’t speak the language they’re put in the school where they don’t understand anything, and the parents are traumatized,” said Carter. “So as long as the parents are traumatized, the children themselves, they’ll have a lot of difficulties, and many teenagers also are having problems in schools.”

The need for mental health services curated for newcomers is what prompted the start of VICCIR in 2015.Sign up for the CHEK Now daily email newsletter to get breaking news and the day's top stories sent to your email.According to Carter, around nine of 10 people accessing services at VICCIR do not speak English, so the centre works with about 30 interpreters to meet their needs.

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