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NEW Peer Assisted Care Team (PACT)
The Lower Mainland Purpose Society is pleased to announce the launch of the Peer Assisted Care Team (PACT) in the City of New Westminster. PACT is a mobile, community-led team that offers support to individuals experiencing a mental health and/or substance use crisis. PACT is an alternative or auxiliary response to police intervention, providing crisis support…
Grant Received
The NWHCS is grateful for the support of Beacon Unitarian Church and wish to thank them for their $2000 grant courtesy of the Church’s “Share the Plate Fund.” This grant will be used to support our very successful I’s on the Street program, which engages homeless or at-risk-of-being-homeless persons into supervised employment cleaning and tidying…
2017 Metro Vancouver Homeless Count
Since 2002, the Greater Vancouver Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness (RSCH) has conducted a region-wide count of homeless individuals every three years. The most recent count was in 2014. The main purpose of the homeless count is to enumerate and learn more about the homeless population in the Metro Vancouver region. The next count will…
Homelessness Action Week (HAW) 2022
The Community Engagement Working Group has been hard at work planning this years activities and we think it is going to be the best HAW yet! Saturday October 8th – HAW Kick off at Holy Trinity Cathedral – Community brunch, giveaways, storytelling walk… Sunday October 9th – no activities – Thanksgiving Monday October 10th –…
Next HAW Planning meeting October 2nd
Homelessness Action Week (HAW) Meeting We are in the final stretch to making this year’s HAW the best one yet! Our next planning meeting will be on Wednesday, October 2, 2019, from 9:00 to 10:30 at the Union Gospel Mission at 658 Clarkson Street in New Westminster. This year HAW will feature: a Community Homelessness Awareness Walk in Uptown;…
Join Us in February
Why: Our first Connect Day of the year When: Tuesday February 13 from 9:00 am to 12 noon. Where: Union Gospel Mission, 658 Clarkson Street and Lookout Housing, 750 Carnarvon Street. What: Hot soup and some of our community services We are having our first Connect Day of 2018 at both UGM and Lookout in…