Sexual Wellness Resources

Options for Sexual Health helps provide sexual health services all over B.C. and are continuing to provide services during COVID-19. A list of their clinics across B.C. can be found here.

Sex Sense is a service from Options for Sexual Health. It is a free, pro-choice, sex-positive, and confidential service available across B.C. You can connect with registered nurses, counsellors, and sex educators for information and resources and sex sexuality and sexual health. They are available Monday to Friday from 9AM – 9PM through phone and email.

Phone: 1-800-739-7367 (BC-wide) or 604-731-7803 (Lower Mainland)

See their email form here

The hotline offers direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. The hotline is open 24/7!

The hotline is staffed exclusively by trans operators, and they are the only crisis line with a policy against non-consensual active rescue, which means they will not call authorities if the caller says they are in danger without their explicit request.

• 877-330-6366 (Hotline)
• Public e-mail: contact@translifeline.org
• Website:  https://www.translifeline.org/ Service is available in English.
• Cost: No cost

Website:  http://www.phsa.ca/transcarebc/ 

The Sexual Health Information Line is a 7-day a week toll-free, confidential phone and text line. It is available for questions about sexual health, pregnancy options, abortion, and safer sex. They provide information and make referrals to sexual health providers.

• Text: 613-800-6757 (standard text charges apply)
• Toll Free: 1-888-642-2725, 6:00AM and 6:00PM PST (voicemai9ls can be left and will be returned the following business day)
• Public e-mail: access@actioncanadashr.org

Service is available in English.

Cost: No cost

All-Options uses direct service and social change strategies to promote unconditional, judgment-free support for people in all of their decisions, feelings, and experiences with pregnancy, parenting, abortion, and adoption. The following services are offered:

• All-Options Talkline: Offers free peer counseling to callers from anywhere in the US or Canada. Simply call 1-888-493-0092 for open-hearted support regarding abortion, adoption, infertility, parenting, and pregnancy loss.
• Faith Aloud: A clergy counseling line offers spiritual and religious support through abortion or pregnancy experiences. Trained clergy from diverse faith background are available toll-free at 1-888-717-5010.
• Pregnancy Options Workshops: Support providers, advocates, and students in exploring their values, unpacking biases, and building skills for judgment-free counseling and all-options referrals.

Service is available in English.

Cost: No cost

GetCheckedOnline is a good option for STI testing when:

• It is part of your STI screening routine (usually every 3 – 12 months).
• You’ve had a change in your sexual behaviours.
• You want to test based on a sexual contact or experience you had. If you want to be tested because of a specific sexual contact you had, it is recommended to test at 3 weeks and 3 months following contact

What can I test for?:

• chlamydia​
• gonorrhea
• syphilis​
• HIV​
• Hepatitis C ​​

Testing is free, you do not need to show ID, and you don’t need to have a BC Care Card.

If you have found out that you have a sexually transmitted infection (STI), a nurse at the BC Centre for Disease Control will contact you. You will be given treatment options.

• 604-707-5603
• Website:  https://getcheckedonline.com/

Cost: No cost

The CARE Program (Comprehensive Abortion and Reproductive Education), at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre, is for anyone:

• Who is experiencing an unintended or unwanted pregnancy
• Who require abortion for genetic or medical reasons.
• Patients can phone and book their own appointments. A doctor’s referral is not necessary.

The program also offers counselling advice and information either in person at the Clinic in Vancouver, or via telephone counselling line:

• Counselling Services at CARE – In person Counselling
• Pregnancy Options Service (POS) – Telephone Counselling

How to make an appointment:

• Click here to book an appointment online at any time. 
• 604-875-2022
• Toll Free: 1-888-300-3088 #2022

Located at:

#3rd Floor, 4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6H 3N1

Monday – Friday: 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Wheelchair accessible.

604-875-3163 (Pregnancy Options Service (POS)

• Toll Free: 1-888-875-3163
• Public e-mail: pos@cw.bc.ca
• Service is available in English.
• Interpreter available upon request.

Cost: No cost

Support groups for gender diverse and trans youth and adults, as well as their parents, families, and friends. Also includes online support groups based in BC.

Health Authorities included: Vancouver Coastal, Fraser, Island, Interior, Northern.

The Transgender Health Information Program recommends that the organization or facilitator is contacted prior to attending, to ensure that the group is happening as scheduled.

Website:  http://www.phsa.ca/transcarebc/care…

Cost: No cost

SexandU.ca takes a real-life approach to the questions and issues around sex and sexuality that matter most to Canadians. From talking about sex, to lifestyle choices, to contraception awareness and sexually transmitted infections, SexandU.ca provides accurate, credible, and up-to-date information and education on topics related to sexual and reproductive health.