Saferide
Provides a mobile response unit dedicated to providing safe transportation, within the healthcare system, for clients with alcohol and drug problems who are seeking relief from their addictions.
The program receives emergency and non-emergency shuttle requests from its partnering agencies including the Vancouver Police Department, Emergency Health Services, and the Vancouver Fire Department. Also works in partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health and the City of Vancouver.
Counselling and Support Groups
Provides individual and group counselling to women, trans, non-binary, two-spirit, and gender diverse people who have experienced sexualized violence. Counsellors help support survivors to cope with the impacts of violence ranging from anger and grief to issues including sexuality, intimacy and trust.
Counselling may include safety planning, support circles, sexual assault counselling, art therapy, inclusion support, and counselling for Indigenous survivors rooted in Indigenous healing practices and traditions.
Stopping the Violence Counselling
Provides counselling to women who have experienced current or past relationship abuse, sexual assault, or physical, emotional or sexual abuse at any age. The program provides a safe place for women to make decisions that feel right for them, learn coping skills, and regain a sense of safety and control.
Family Preservation
Offers early childhood development programs for families living on reserve. Support may be provided in the family's home, in the community, or at the office of a variety of other service providers.
Services include support groups, advocacy for legal or court process, life skills and parenting education, family events, support programs for school-aged children, and pre-natal to early childhood development support. The program aims to keep children and families together and increase the family's ability to safely care for and nurture their children.
Indigenous Support Programs
Provides telephone, one-to-one, group and family counselling for self-identified family members of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). The program also offers traditional healing ceremonies, and is inclusive of all genders, races, and age groups.
Community Programs
Provides community-based education, health and cultural programs for Aboriginal families living in the Northern Vancouver Island area. Programs include social services, children and family programming, and services that offer cultural awareness, education and support.
Mobile Outreach Program
Provides outreach primary care health services to individuals in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The mobile van offers a combination of targeted outreach for individual members, cultural wellness outreach services, and scheduled drop-in clinics.
Services include harm reduction and emergency supplies, one-on-one support, and cultural care and medicine such as smudging, cedar brushing and ceremonial song. Provided in partnership with TELUS Health.
Outreach Services
Provides free and confidential outreach visits to newcomer, migrant and immigrant women who are engaged in indoor sex work in the Lower Mainland area to distribute safer-sex supplies and information resources. Also connects women to healthcare providers and offers information about immigration, housing, law, employment, safety and health.
Victim Services
Provides justice-related information and advocacy, post-assault health care support, and practical assistance to victims or witness of crime, trauma and or physical or sexual assault. Services include crisis counselling, referrals to community services, safety planning, and accompaniment to police and court appearances.
Mental Health and Wellness
Provides community-based and culturally appropriate mental health and substance use services for Indigenous people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Victoria. Services include community outreach, women's healing circles, sexual assault support, and counselling and addiction treatment referrals.