Homelessness & poverty
Each year, the City of Vancouver seeks to find out the number of people who are experiencing homelessness by undertaking a count. Research shows that there is a strong connection between homelessness and mental illness.
Living with a pre-existing mental health problem can increase the risk of poverty or homelessness, and living in poverty for any significant length of time increases the risk of mental illness.
Breaking this cycle can be difficult without the right support and access to resources. For example, without housing it becomes difficult to find work, and finding adequate housing often requires an income. Even accessing services, such as Income Assistance or Crisis Supplements, becomes difficult without a computer or telephone.
There is a profound lack of safe, affordable, adequate and appropriate housing for women as well as gender diverse peoples.
#ShareHope over the holidays!
COVID-19’s global outbreak has impacted all of our lives. It’s been devastating for each vulnerable person who doesn’t have a warm place to self-isolate, a safe place to sleep, family to support them or a hot meal.
Your compassion can transform the lives of people living with mental illness, substance use, poverty, and/or homelessness. Your support will provide life-changing services to people at their most vulnerable moments.
Vulnerable people need us now more than ever.
$35
will provide new socks & blankets for five vulnerable people.
$240
or $20/per month
will provide six healthcare workers with the goggles, disposable gown & mask they need.
$50
will provide one month of free showers for one vulnerable person.
$500
or $42/per month
will provide someone who is at-risk of homelessness with temporary accommodation.
$120
will provide one day of food for thirty malnourished people.
$1,500
or $125/per month
will provide fifty hygiene kits for our homeless outreach program.
When we fail to prevent or end housing need or homelessness, we ensure repeated cycles of violence and housing precarcity.
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