Powell Place Emergency Shelter for Women
Provides short-term emergency shelter to women in crisis living with the challenges of violence, abuse, poverty, mental illness and addiction.
Services include crisis intervention, 24-hour on-site staff support, meals, laundry services, housing assistance, harm reduction supplies, individual counselling, accompaniment to appointments, referrals and advocacy.
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.
Shelter and Street Help Line
Provides a list of shelter beds and services to help people affected by homelessness find shelter and other essential services in the Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley and Greater Victoria area.
The shelter list is updated twice per day and is available online or by calling the 24-hour help line. Shelters include year-round shelters, temporary shelters and extreme winter shelters.
All Nations Youth Safe House
Provides a safe, supportive and non-judgmental home environment for at-risk youth of all nations to achieve healthy self-determined goals while encouraging positive family and community connections. Key workers assigned to each resident provides individual consultation, additions and life counselling and networking opportunities to prevent further at risk behaviour.
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.
Health Support Worker Program
Provides safe, confidential, respectful, and non-judgmental information for former Indian Residential School students and their families before, during, and after their participation in Settlement Agreement processes.
Services include emotional support through the hearing process, help with preparing for claim hearings, and community-based educational seminars and workshops.
413 W Esplanade, North Vancouver, BC
Counselling
Provides individual, family and group counselling, circles and crisis support to Residential School Survivors, their families, and those dealing with intergenerational traumas.
The counselling team supports emotional, mental, and spiritual development, along with healing and recovery, through culturally-based values and guiding principles.
413 W Esplanade, North Vancouver, BC
24-Hour Crisis Line - Indigenous
Offers residential school survivors, students and intergenerational survivors, their family members, and the community at large a 24-hour crisis line for immediate emotional support, information, and referrals. Referrals include access to crisis counselling, elder support, cultural workshop, grief and loss support, and help with filing missing persons reports.
Battered Women's Crisis Line
Provides telephone-based crisis support and victim services to women dealing with violence and or the effects of abuse, childhood sexual abuse, and adult sexual assault.
Callers receive emotional support, coping strategies, safety planning, community resource information, and referrals to transition houses, medical services, and lawyers. Specialized support for immigrant and aboriginal women is also available.