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.
Mobile Needle Exchange
Provides clean needles and harm reduction supplies to people in the community to help reduce the spread of HIV, HCV and other illnesses. The program also promotes safer drug-use habits through referrals to health care, detox, treatment and other community services.
Services include picking up used needles from housing projects, emptying the city needle boxes in the Downtown Eastside, and collecting discarded needles from streets, alleys, and parks. A hotline is also available for delivery of harm reduction materials to anyone within the Vancouver city limits.
Spikes on Bikes
Provides harm reduction outreach by a two-person bicycle team that serves both the West End and Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The program provides needle recovery, overdose response, naloxone kits, overdose response training, and harm reduction supplies.
Building Blocks Vancouver
Provides in-home support to help families who are a first-time parent or will be parenting a child for the first time. Home visits are provided by nurses, social workers or program staff, who will visit the home approximately once per week to answer questions and provide parenting advice.
Services include monitoring of baby's health and development, and answering questions about topics such as feeding, potty training, child development, healthy meals, child discipline, and preschool information.
WINGS Housing Outreach Program
Provides support to women who have been affected by domestic violence to find affordable housing, be connected to supportive community resources when they relocate, and navigate any necessary legal or court processes.
Women in Safe Healthy Empowering Support Groups
Provides a 10 week confidential, non-judgmental community support group held in a relaxed and safe environment for women affected by domestic abuse. These support groups are held in various locations and several times during the year.
Surrey Mobile Assault Response Team
Provides crisis services over the phone and in-person to anyone who has experienced a physical or sexual assault by a stranger or someone they know. SMART helps people who are in crisis, even in the middle of the night, with getting medical treatment, reporting a crime to the police, and or finding a safe place to stay. Workers can also arrange transportation for clients to meet them at a hospital or police station.
Service is provided through a partnership between Surrey Women's Centre, Surrey Memorial Hospital, and VictimLINK BC.
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.
Crisis Response, Community Led - Prince George
Provides emergency response to crisis calls related to mental health situations or crisis concerns. Crisis responders may include a mental health professional and a peer worker with lived experience working together to provide in-person support to youth and adults in Prince George.
A team of crisis responders are trained to help reduce distress, provide safety and support, help with referrals to other services and offer post-crisis follow-up.
Alzheimer Resource Centre - West Kootenay
Provides information, education and support for individuals with Alzheimer's disease or another dementia. Also offers support to caregivers, families, and health professionals who help those concerned with or facing dementia, build the knowledge, skills and confidence to maintain quality of life.
Services include individual support, community referrals, and a resource library including books, videos, brochures and information sheets.