Offers personalized and non-judgmental support to individuals who want to stop smoking and stay smoke-free. Includes:

• Quit Line: A trained counsellor helps individuals develop a personal quit plan. Offers help with cravings and withdrawal, and a place to talk.
• SMS/Text Based Motivational Messaging: Sends helpful and motivational SMS/text messages. Carrier charges may apply.
• Secure Chat With A Counsellor: Offers direct chat with counsellors securely online
• Online Forums: Offers a place to talk online with other smokers
• Quit Pack: Sends individuals information about smoking topics that are important to them
• Website Resources: Offers online information on how to quit smoking and stay smoke-free

Offers a range of health and wellness supports and services to volunteer firefighters and ground search and rescue personnel in Nova Scotia. Services are offered 24-hours, 365 days a year and are confidential.

Services offered include:

• Individual counselling therapy with registered clinicians in-person, over the phone or online, to support mental illness, grief and loss, post-traumatic stress, mental health crisis and more
• Family and couples' therapy
• Wellness supports, including stress management tools
• Addictions and substance use support
• Support to manage chronic illness, including access to registered dieticians
• Legal advice from experts in family law on issues such as separation, divorce, and custody
• Financial guidance and resources, including debt management, bankruptcy, and retirement
• Support with relationships, parenting, childcare, and elder care

This is a partnership between the Office of Addictions and Mental Health and Telus Health

Provides a day program for people with addictions.

Includes components such as:

• Life skills
• Relapse prevention
• Goal setting
• Meditation and relaxation
• AA, NA, GA meetings
• Week-ahead and weekend planning

Offers screening, with the goal to prevent lung cancer and to find lung cancer at an earlier stage when treatments work best. Screening is looking for cancer before there are warning signs or symptoms.

Provides:

• Information about improving lung health
• Supports for people who are tobacco users and who are interested in quitting
• A lung CT scan for people found to be at high risk for lung cancer
• Free nicotine replacement therapy (patch and gum/lozenge) is offered for up to 12 weeks for those assessed and determined to be at very high risk for developing lung cancer and are current tobacco users and interested in quitting

• Fresh coffee and snacks
• A daily food delivery by Feed Nova Scotia
• A monthly food order
• Access to a telephone and computer
• Access to a shower, towels and hygiene products
• Clothing closet

Offers nicotine addiction treatment and supportive counseling services for individuals who want to stop their tobacco or nicotine use, most commonly, smoking and vaping. This can involve reducing harms associated with nicotine dependence. Individuals receiving treatment will have access to accurate information on strategies assisting them to stop or reduce use in an effective way.

Treatment plans are developed with clients based on their current needs and/or health concerns and involve approaches such as group counseling, individual follow up and supportive services.

Funding for quit aids (nicotine replacement therapy or prescription medications) are available for program participants. Virtual programming options may be available for individuals wishing to access these.

Stop smoking services are availabe across Nova Scotia. Please visit website for contact information, locations and hours.

A welcoming space that provides outpatient withdrawal management day program, education, recovery and harm reduction support, along with one-on-one support and group treatment for people struggling with substance use and/or gambling concerns.

An interdisciplinary team works with clients to learn more about their individual situation and support needs. Applies a harm reduction model while working with clients and supports them in reducing their use, or with stopping use based on the recovery goals that are important to them.

The centre can link people to care based on their individual needs. This could include inpatient withdrawal management, opioid-use disorder treatment, community mental health and addictions programs and other supports available within communities.

Recovery Support Centres are located across Nova Scotia. Please see website for contact information, locations and hours.

• Referrals to affirming mental health and addictions providers
• Information and referrals for gender-affirming care
• Information about sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection (STBBI)
• Information about community resources such as peer support, advocacy and social groups

Community Pharmacy Primary Care Clinics are offered at select pharmacy locations.

Clinics provide an extended suite of pharmacy primary care services at no charge to people with a valid Nova Scotia health card.

Services are by appointment only. Appointments can be made by phone or online at https://pans.ns.ca/cppcc

Services include:

• Assessment and prescribing for strep throat, pink eye, UTIs
• Chronic disease management (diabetes, asthma, COPD)
• Prescription renewals
• And more

Publicly funded vaccines for adults and children are also available at these clinics, as well as medical injections (fees may apply).

The complete list of services are available at: https://pans.ns.ca/cppcc

Offered by the Pharmacy Association of Nova Scotia (PANS) in partnership with the Government of Nova Scotia and Nova Scotia Health.

• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Mood disorders
• Anxiety disorders
• Substance use disorders
• Other conditions that may interfere with daily functioning

Offers a variety of health and wellness programs and services for the community. Please visit website for a full list of available programs and services: https://www.sipeknekatik.ca/health

A community-serving counselling centre run through the M.Ed. Counselling Program at Acadia University that offers individual, group, and couples counselling services at no charge to individuals who do not otherwise have access to mental health care.

Counselling services are provided by graduate interns under the supervision of the Centre Coordinator, an experienced counselling practitioner who provides oversight of client referrals and services.

Counselling services are available in-person or virtual and include issues such as:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Family
• Identity
• Grief and loss
• Marginalization
• Oppression
• Relationships
• Sexual violence
• Stress
• Substance use recovery and support
• Personal growth
• Work and career

Please Note: They are not a crisis service and they do not offer any urgent or crisis care

Provides accessible, culturally-safe and holistic care to community members of Millbrook First Nation. Please visit website for a full list of available programs and services: https://www.millbrookband.com/mhc-aboutus-services

A welcoming hub for youth ages 12-25 and their parents and caregivers that offers access to a wide range of health and wellness resources.

Services include:

• Walk-in support
• Counselling, peer support, outreach, and programs for both youth and caregivers
• Help with housing, life skills, addictions, mental health, and much more

• Physical Health: Individual check-ups * Cancer screening * Healthy heart check-ups * Blood pressure and cholesterol testing
• Mental and Emotional Health: Relationship counselling * Fatherhood resources and support * Addictions programs * Management of stress, anxiety, or depression * Support while coping with life changes
• Sexual Health: STI screening * HIV testing * Gender and sexuality counselling * Sexual orientation and expression counselling * Sexual victimization resources
• Navigation: Helping to find shelter and other basic resources * Helping with questions around social assistance, legal system, employment services
• Socialization: Chatting * Walking
• Referral to other services

Offers a variety of community health promotion, education and prevention programming. Please see the website for a list of services offered at the health centre: https://www.paqtnkek.ca/health-centre

Offers a variety of programs that may include:

• Car Seat Safety and Installation: Technicians trained by the Child Passenger Association of Canada facilitate presentations for groups within the community and/or facilitate one-on one training sessions to teach parents to choose the appropriate children restraint system, secure their child in these systems, and install their child restraint systems correctly.
  
• Babysitting Certification Program: A babysitter certification course for youth ages 11-14
• Emergency Preparedness for Families: A 4-week program that explores the reality of emergency situations and how families can prepare by developing their own emergency plans. Provides information on putting together emergency kits on a limited budget.
• First Aid/CPR Training: Offers an emergency first aid and CPR training course for parents, childcare providers and day care staff.
• Heart Smart Cooking Program: Offers cooking programs that help families make healthy choices on a limited budget.
• Smoking Cessation and Reducing Second-Hand Smoke Program: Provides awareness on the effects of exposure to second-hand smoke and supports parents and caregivers to reduce such exposure. Offers a 10-12 week program designed as a harm reduction/quit smoking program for prenatal women and women with very young children.

Contact to check when the program you are interested in will be available

• Home and community care
• Dietitian services
• Clinical therapists
• Addiction services
• Public health
• Primary care
• Palliative care
• Lab services

Offers a variety of health and wellness programs and services for the community.

Please visit the website for a full list of available programs and services: https://potlotek.ca/health

Offers a variety of programs that may include:

• Car Seat Safety and Installation: Technicians trained by the Child Passenger Association of Canada facilitate presentations for groups within the community and/or facilitate one-on one training sessions to teach parents to choose the appropriate children restraint system, secure their child in these systems, and install their child restraint systems correctly.
  
• Babysitting Certification Program: A babysitter certification course for youth ages 11-14
• Emergency Preparedness for Families: A 4-week program that explores the reality of emergency situations and how families can prepare by developing their own emergency plans. Provides information on putting together emergency kits on a limited budget.
• First Aid/CPR Training: Offers an emergency first aid and CPR training course for parents, childcare providers and day care staff.
• Heart Smart Cooking Program: Offers cooking programs that help families make healthy choices on a limited budget.
• Smoking Cessation and Reducing Second-Hand Smoke Program: Provides awareness on the effects of exposure to second-hand smoke and supports parents and caregivers to reduce such exposure. Offers a 10-12 week program designed as a harm reduction/quit smoking program for prenatal women and women with very young children.

Contact to check when the program you are interested in will be available

Promotes the health and well being of all community members by providing culturally appropriate, holistic and sustainable health care.

Please see website for a list of programs and services offered at the health centre: https://wagmatcook.com/departments/health

Offers a variety of programs that may include:

• Car Seat Safety and Installation: Technicians trained by the Child Passenger Association of Canada facilitate presentations for groups within the community and/or facilitate one-on one training sessions to teach parents to choose the appropriate children restraint system, secure their child in these systems, and install their child restraint systems correctly.
  
• Babysitting Certification Program: A babysitter certification course for youth ages 11-14
• Emergency Preparedness for Families: A 4-week program that explores the reality of emergency situations and how families can prepare by developing their own emergency plans. Provides information on putting together emergency kits on a limited budget.
• First Aid/CPR Training: Offers an emergency first aid and CPR training course for parents, childcare providers and day care staff.
• Heart Smart Cooking Program: Offers cooking programs that help families make healthy choices on a limited budget.
• Smoking Cessation and Reducing Second-Hand Smoke Program: Provides awareness on the effects of exposure to second-hand smoke and supports parents and caregivers to reduce such exposure. Offers a 10-12 week program designed as a harm reduction/quit smoking program for prenatal women and women with very young children.

Contact to check when the program you are interested in will be available

Offers a variety of programs that may include:

• Car Seat Safety and Installation: Technicians trained by the Child Passenger Association of Canada facilitate presentations for groups within the community and/or facilitate one-on one training sessions to teach parents to choose the appropriate children restraint system, secure their child in these systems, and install their child restraint systems correctly.
  
• Babysitting Certification Program: A babysitter certification course for youth ages 11-14
• Emergency Preparedness for Families: A 4-week program that explores the reality of emergency situations and how families can prepare by developing their own emergency plans. Provides information on putting together emergency kits on a limited budget.
• First Aid/CPR Training: Offers an emergency first aid and CPR training course for parents, childcare providers and day care staff.
• Heart Smart Cooking Program: Offers cooking programs that help families make healthy choices on a limited budget.
• Smoking Cessation and Reducing Second-Hand Smoke Program: Provides awareness on the effects of exposure to second-hand smoke and supports parents and caregivers to reduce such exposure. Offers a 10-12 week program designed as a harm reduction/quit smoking program for prenatal women and women with very young children.

Contact to check when the program you are interested in will be available