Downtown Eastside Women's Centre (DEWC)

Provides services to all self-identified women, including cis women, trans women, and two-spirit people. The drop-in centre offers advocacy, workshops, and crisis intervention to women of the Downtown Eastside, as well as free clothing, phone, showers (available until 4 pm daily), toilets, mail serv...

Provides services to all self-identified women, including cis women, trans women, and two-spirit people. The drop-in centre offers advocacy, workshops, and crisis intervention to women of the Downtown Eastside, as well as free clothing, phone, showers (available until 4 pm daily), toilets, mail serv...

Assists women who have been victims of any kind of crime, including sexual assault, family violence, historical sexual abuse, and stalking. Services include immediate emotional support, crisis intervention, counselling, court accompaniment, outreach, and information and referral. Funding provided by...

Provides a safe, warm place where 10 self-identified women living outside can enter a safe space, receive food, and rest. Pets are allowed. Wheelchair accessible. Storage space for carts is not available. Hours are 2:30 pm to 9 am seven days a week.

Provides year-round, low-barrier, 24-hour emergency shelter in rooms of nine to 18 beds for homeless self-identified women in the Downtown Eastside. Capacity is 57 women. Harm-reduction focus. Services include snacks, meals, showers, laundry facilities, personal hygiene products, first aid, and acce...

Provides year-round, low-barrier, overnight emergency shelter beds for 31 women ages 19 and up on a first-come, first-served basis. Also provides a drop-in space for respite from the elements and lunches. Serves cisgender and transgender women, as well as non-binary and Two-Spirit people. Services i...