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 Lizi McLoughlin | May 11, 2020 | Events
We’ve been adapting to the “new normal” in all sorts of ways over the last six weeks. And one thing we had to figure out pretty quickly: how do we hold our AGM in this new online world? Our AGM was scheduled for April 14, and we’d been looking...
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 Lizi McLoughlin | Mar 18, 2020 | Core Programming, Youth Homelessness
With the developments of the COVID-19 situation over the last few days globally, nationally, and locally, we find ourselves in unprecedented times. We want to reassure you that we will be responding as such. We view the work that we do in the eyes of our participants,...
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...
by Jill | Dec 19, 2019 | Blog
Happy Holidays everyone, from everyone here at Zero Ceiling! (Minus Jill, who crashed her car in a ditch and missed the group photo.) Our team will be taking some much-deserved time off over the next few weeks. If you want to drop by, call first to see if...
by Lizi McLoughlin | Nov 20, 2019 | Events
Christmas came a few days before Halloween. On October 25, we got to witness our amazing partners in action at our 22nd birthday party and annual fall fundraiser: The Masquerade, where we raised over $85,000 to fight youth homelessness. Including the $34,000 raised...
by Jill | Nov 14, 2019 | Partner Profiles, Youth Homelessness
If anyone understands the power of sport and the value of community, Hockey Helps the Homeless (HHTH) are the masters. This incredible volunteer-driven organization raises funds across Canada to fight homelessness in our communities. Teams of amateur players, NHLers,...
