We currently support these three main areas:
1. Helping Women at Risk
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Drop-in centre providing meals, clothing, shower facilities, victim services, counseling and advocacy for women living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Provides an integrated recovery program for women-at-risk leaving the streets and a life of substance misuse.
Social enterprise developing small wood products while training marginalized women in the DTES to transition into full time employment.
2. Brighter Futures for Children and Youth
Online chat service providing crisis support for youth (ages 13-24) at risk of experiencing family problems, victimization, addictions or suicidal thoughts.
Broadway Youth Resource Centre
Social Enterprise coffee shop training program for marginalized youth to transition into full time employment.
Britannia Centre: HIPPY (Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters)
Helping parents with low income and low levels of literacy learn how to prepare their children for kindergarten and maximize the educational potential of their pre-school children.
3. Social Enterprise
A program of the Canadian Mental Health Association, this organization is a commercial cleaning social enterprise employing people coping with the effects of mental illness.
