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Transitional Housing and Recovery Program

Stepping Stones Recovery House for Women Society

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

PHS Community Services Society

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

PHS Community Services Society

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

M.O.S.A.I.C.

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

WINGS Fellowship Ministries

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

WINGS Fellowship Ministries

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

Surrey Women's Centre Society

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.

Health Connections

Wheels for Wellness Society

Provides low-cost transportation options for residents of Vancouver Island who must travel for non-emergency, physician-referred medical care outside their home communities. Advance reservations are recommended.

Mobile Access Project

WISH Drop-in Centre Society

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.

Community Information and Volunteer Centre

Kelowna Community Resources

Provides community information about organizations, government programs, health services through an area-wide online database of community resources, by email, phone, or walk-in inquiry, in addition to information on volunteering in the Central Okanagan.

Publications include: Directory of Community Services; Children and Youth Special Needs Resource Guide; Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health & Substance Use Resource Guide for Professionals and Service Providers; Mental Health Resources for Children and Youth; Healthy Aging Seniors Resource and Support Guide; and Suicide Prevention Handbook.

Showing 271 - 280 of 534 Resources

Transitional Housing and Recovery Program

Stepping Stones Recovery House for Women Society

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

PHS Community Services Society

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

PHS Community Services Society

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

M.O.S.A.I.C.

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

WINGS Fellowship Ministries

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

WINGS Fellowship Ministries

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

Surrey Women's Centre Society

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.

Health Connections

Wheels for Wellness Society

Provides low-cost transportation options for residents of Vancouver Island who must travel for non-emergency, physician-referred medical care outside their home communities. Advance reservations are recommended.

Mobile Access Project

WISH Drop-in Centre Society

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.

Community Information and Volunteer Centre

Kelowna Community Resources

Provides community information about organizations, government programs, health services through an area-wide online database of community resources, by email, phone, or walk-in inquiry, in addition to information on volunteering in the Central Okanagan.

Publications include: Directory of Community Services; Children and Youth Special Needs Resource Guide; Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health & Substance Use Resource Guide for Professionals and Service Providers; Mental Health Resources for Children and Youth; Healthy Aging Seniors Resource and Support Guide; and Suicide Prevention Handbook.

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