Surrey Street Youth Services
Provides a telephone referral service for youth who are without a safe place to go and at considerable risk on the streets. Youth-specific information and referrals include counselling, health and education options, youth shelters, mental health and substance use services, and income assistance programs.
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.
Homeless Outreach
Offers outreach services to help homeless individuals with accessing housing, a stable source of income, and other support services such as primary and mental health care. Workers also address immediate physical and safety needs such as food, warm clothing, and a place to stay. Services include life skills training, crisis intervention, and referrals to other programs and services as needed.
Mobile Access Project
Offers outreach services to help women working on the streets of Vancouver. A mobile vehicle travels in areas of the city where there are few or no services open late at night.
Snacks, beverages, basic first aid supplies, and harm reduction and safer sex supplies such as condoms and clean needles, are provided. Staff with lived experience provide emotional support and referral to emergency shelters, health care services and other community supports.
Sexual Assault Response Team
Provides immediate emotional support and information to individuals who have been sexually assaulted within the past 7 days. The team provides accompaniment to the hospital, safety planning, and coordinates police involvement as requested by the survivor.
South Asian LGBTQ Support Services
Offers advocacy, education and counselling to LGBTQ south Asians, their friends, families and allies in the Greater Vancouver area. Services include outreach, volunteer opportunities, information and referral services.
Peer support includes groups for queer south Asian youth and friends; social group for south Asian lesbian, bisexual and trans women; and a group for queer south Asian men and friends.
S.T.A.R. Program for Kids
Provides education and information around choices, drugs and responsibility to elementary-aged school children in Vancouver. Youth are active participants in the sessions with the curriculum delivered through fun and engaging activities. Topics include alcohol and drug basics, healthier choices, myth busting, conflict and tricky situations, values, and creating options.
Residential Treatment Program
Provides a faith-based residential treatment program to help women recover from drug and alcohol addiction. A holistic approach is used to address physical, spiritual, emotional and social needs. The program includes group therapy, life coaching, fitness activities, and support groups.
Transitional Housing and Recovery Program
Provides second-stage transitional housing for women who have completed a substance use treatment program and need support with transitioning to a drug and alcohol-free lifestyle. The program includes group therapy, twelve-step programs, life coaching, and community volunteer work.