BC Mental Health Rights

[UPDATE (March 2025): The rights materials on this site are out of date.  Please contact the province’s Independent Rights Advice Service for up-to-date materials.]

These materials were made to help people who are involuntarily hospitalized (certified) under BC’s Mental Health Act understand their rights. The materials are free for anyone to view, print, and distribute. We are out of hard-copy rights materials and cannot send any more out.

Instead, we encourage you to send the print-ready digital files on this site to a local commercial printer and order the quantity that you need.

• Pamphlet
• Wallet card
• Large poster (17″ wide × 11″ tall)
• Small poster (11″ wide × 8.5″ tall)
• Video

Vancouver Coastal Health staff can order a VCH-branded version of these materials from the Patient Health Educational Materials Resource Catalogue.

Our rights materials are now available in languages other than English.