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Toll-free phone numbers for law-related help in BC
Last updated August 23, 2022
COVID-19
BC's response to COVID-19 (non-health related information and services)
Text: 1-604-630-0300 (7:30 am to 5 pm)
1-888-COVID19/1-888-268-4319 (7:30 am to 8 pm)
Help in multiple languages: 1-888-268-4319 (7:30 am to 8 pm)
TDD: 711
Legal information or self-help
1-855-875-8867 (call or text)
1-800-665-2570
Lower Mainland: 604-660-2841
Dial-A-Law (recorded legal information)
1-800-565-5297
Lower Mainland: 604-687-4680
Legal advice or representation
(Free 30 minute initial consultation)
1-800-663-1919
Lower Mainland: 604-687-3221
(interpreters available in over 100 languages)
1-866-577-2525 (toll-free)
Lower Mainland: 604-408-2172
(free legal advice for low income people)
1-877-762-6664
Lower Mainland: 604-878-7400
Government
General Enquiries to Government of BC (Service BC)
1-800-663-7867
Lower Mainland: 604-660-2421
Victoria: 250-387-6121
TDD: 711
VRS: 1-800-663-7867
1-800-567-3247
Victoria: 250-387-5855
Service Canada (federal government)
1-800-622-6232
TTY: 1-800-926-9105
Your communities
Disabilities
1-800-663-1278
Lower Mainland: 604-872-1278
Seniors
Seniors Abuse and Information Line
1-866-437-1940
Lower Mainland: 604-437-1940
TTY: 604-428-3359 or 1-855-306-1443
Clicklaw HelpMap
The Clicklaw HelpMap, integrated with Google Maps, assists you in finding pro bono clinics, community-based legal advocates, legal aid offices, courthouse libraries, and others who provide assistance to people with legal problems.
Your safety
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
(women and youth involved in criminal justice system)
1-888-879-9593
Lower Mainland: 604-520-1166
National Parole Board Record Suspension
1-800-874-2652
1-800-563-0808
TTY 604-875-0885 (collect accepted)
For deaf/hard of hearing text 604-836-6381
Your family
Justice Access Centres (JACs)
1-800-663-7867 (Enquiry BC - ask for Vancouver & Victoria JACs)
Abbotsford: 604-851-7055
Nanaimo: 250-741-5447 or 1-800-578-8511
Surrey: 604-501-3100
Vancouver: 604-660-2084
Victoria: 250-356-7012
Family Justice Counsellors
Call Service BC: 1-800-663-7867
Lower Mainland: 604-660-2421
Victoria: 250-387-6121
Family Maintenance Enforcement Program
Lower Mainland: 604-678-5670 or 1-800-663-9666
Victoria: 250-220-4040 or 1-800-663-3455
North & Interior: 250-434-6020 or 1-800-663-3933
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Support Line
1-855-474-9777
Lower Mainland: 604-558-4740
Reporting Abuse: 1-800-663-9122
Mental Health Support Line: 310-1234 (no area code needed)
Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868
Youth Against Violence Line: 1-800-680-4264 (24hrs 7 days) - counselling and referral
Greater Vancouver: 604-408-2172
Elsewhere in BC: 1-866-577-2525
Your daily life
Housing, tenancy & neighbours
1-800-665-1185
Lower Mainland: 604-255-0546
1-800-665-8779
Lower Mainland: 604-660-1020
Victoria: 250-387-1602
Employment
1-833-236-3700
1-800-663-4261
Lower Mainland: 604-335-5931
Rights & citizenship
BC Civil Liberties Association
1-866-731-7505
Lower Mainland: 604-687-2919
Please note that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the casework phone line is currently suspended.
1-866-385-1221
250-385-1221
TDD/TTY = Telephone Device for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing