Streetohome is proud to partner with The Kettle Society (Vancouver) and the Recovery Café Network (Seattle) to bring a leading-edge recovery pathway to Vancouver – the Recovery Café. The Recovery Café is a place of belonging where people pursuing recovery – whether it’s from, poverty, homelessness, isolation, mental health challenges, trauma, unemployment, or substance use – can participate in an intentional community of mutual support and work towards their recovery goals.
UGM Women and Families Centre
The Union Gospel Mission Women & Family Centre provides a comprehensive continuum of care that is a one-stop shop – offering a range of services (including childcare) and 36 recovery housing units all under one roof, ensuring that women are supported every step of the way on their journey to recovery. This purpose-built, recovery-support project will enable single women and women … Read More
Let’s Talk About Mental Wellness
With so much change in the world, it is increasingly important to take care of our mental wellness, as well as the mental wellness of others. In honour of Bell Let’s Talk day today, we would like to bring awareness to a new mental wellness and recovery initiative of The Kettle Society – the pop-up Recovery Café.
Empowering At-risk Individuals to Plan and Realize a Better Future for Themselves
The Life Intentions Action Planner is a new resource that helps vulnerable individuals including youth, seniors, low-income families, immigrants and refugees, and their support networks such as families or peers, to prioritize their personal goals and find free resources and services that fit their unique needs and preferences.
Why Karen Volunteers
When Streetohome needed expert help in IT and web design in 2017, Karen Ott, who was working as the Senior Business Analyst and Operations Lead at Colliers International at the time, stepped up and took the lead on the redesign of our website.
Why Sarah Volunteers
Homelessness has always been a cause close to Sarah’s heart, ever since she was a little girl. “My heart goes out to them, and I’ve always felt that I needed to help.” Sarah initially found out about Streetohome through her mother, who, knowing Sarah’s passion for the homeless, sent her Streetohome’s newsletter. Our story and mission resonated, and Sarah made Streetohome her charity of choice.
Honouring the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
On September 30th, Streetohome will observe the first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation and become an active participant in the Reconciliation journey. Knowing that Indigenous people are over-represented within Vancouver’s homeless population, we are committed to addressing the underlying structural causes of inequity by filling gaps within the homelessness services system, and brokering and leveraging new funding, innovative ideas, and opportunities to implement sustainable solutions.
A Need to Be Needed Leads to Success
“To live you need to have a purpose, some fullness and joy. Most of us need to be needed. We need someone to say, ‘We need you,’ in order to rise up, and have that feeling of someone looking at us as a little bit of a leader,” says Dr. Mimi Silbert, President and CEO of Delancey Street Foundation. Delancey … Read More
Learning to Live from Love
“Our members, more than anyone, need to hear in 1000 different ways, the message, ‘You matter, you are valuable, you are worthy of this beautiful place,’” says Killian Noe, Recovery Café Seattle Co-founder. The flagship Recovery Café Vancouver – one of 23 in North America and the first in Canada, will be operated by The Kettle Society. Scheduled to open … Read More
Finding a Recovery Journey that’s Right for You
“R”ecovery is a lifelong process. It’s about becoming a thriving citizen – having purpose and meaning in your life and the recovery capital that will help you succeed. It’s about living a life free from the challenges of addictions with improved physical and mental health, healthy relationships and a safe place to call home,” explains Brenda Plant, Executive Director, Turning … Read More
