Support youth mental health and substance use care with Vancouver Coastal Health’s DTES Youth Outreach Team in Vancouver. Apply trauma-informed practice daily.
As a Youth Care Worker, you provide treatment services within a multidisciplinary, team-based model of care. You support youth experiencing mental health, substance use, or concurrent disorder challenges. The work includes withdrawal management, psychoeducation, care coordination, and individualized treatment planning. You collaborate with youth, caregivers, and interdisciplinary colleagues to explore services, manage behaviour, and support recovery-oriented goals.
Key Responsibilities: Provide treatment services for youth mental health and substance use issues
Assist with behaviour management and individualized care planning
Support clients and caregivers through withdrawal management




Provide psychoeducation about substance use and mental health
Participate in case conferences and prevention strategies
Requirements: Baccalaureate degree in Child and Youth Care or related health science
Two years’ recent related multidisciplinary youth care experience
Knowledge of trauma-informed practice, harm reduction, and recovery-oriented care
Ability to recognize risks of harm to clients or others
Ability to communicate effectively with youth, families, and care teams
Bring youth care experience, treatment knowledge, and trauma-informed skills to Vancouver Coastal Health’s DTES outreach services.

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📌 Youth Mental Health Care Worker (British Columbia)
🏢 Vancouver Coastal Health
📍 British Columbia