by Jill | May 20, 2020 | Core Programming
In 2020, we introduced the RentSmart Certificate to the Life Skills Education curriculum for our Work 2 Live crew. In our last post, we told you how important supportive housing is for keeping a community’s most vulnerable residents healthy. In this blog, you...
by Jill | May 13, 2020 | Core Programming
Supportive housing in BC is gaining more recognition as a key way to prevent homelessness. In the social service field, it is considered best practice in a laundry list of possible interventions when supporting individuals with barriers. However, to the average...
by Jill | May 6, 2020 | Blog
May 4-10 is the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Mental Health Week. To celebrate, we are bringing you another letter from Rhianna, our Case Worker. She connects with our participants nearly every day, and we wanted her to share what mental health and...
by Jill | Apr 8, 2020 | Blog
As BC spends time physical distancing, it’s a great opportunity for us to be able to reflect back on the last few weeks and see the ways our Work 2 Live program has adapted to the current changes. The last 3 weeks have been challenging, however so many positives...
by Jill | Jan 28, 2020 | Youth Homelessness
In October 2019, the Australian Council to Homeless Persons partnered with The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness on a joint issue of Parity, Australia’s national homelessness magazine. The publication is titled “Preventing and Sustaining Exits from Youth...
