PHS Community Services Society
Alexander Street Community
Provides 100 units of low-barrier permanent housing for individuals living with physical and mental health issues, substance use issues, and other challenges. Supports include mental health workers, an on-site nurse, and a social worker.
View serviceBeacon Hotel
Provides 40 units of single room occupancy (SRO) social housing for individuals living with concurrent disorders. Services and support include PHS mental health workers, tenant support team, nurse, access to clinical team and social worker, food program, community kitchen, staff-led outings, and mov...
View serviceCommunity Managed Alcohol Program
Provides low-cost beer and wine to community members with severe alcohol use disorder in order to prevent the consumption of non-beverage alcohol. Clients may exchange non-beverage alcohol for limited amounts of member-brewed beer and wine. Peer employment opportunities making beer and wine using ki...
View serviceDouglas Street Community - Arbutus Shelter
Low-barrier, 24-hour shelter with 39 beds in both co-ed and women's-only (trans-inclusive) sections; will offer emergency mats for additional shelter, when available. Provides three meals a day, shower facilities, and limited secure storage for personal items including bikes and shopping carts. Whee...
View serviceDouglas Street Community - Supportive Housing
Provides 25 units of transitional supportive housing for individuals facing multiple barriers to traditional housing, and who may be homeless, living in shelters, or at risk of becoming homeless. Residents are provided two meals a day and opportunities for peer employment in the building. There are ...
View serviceDouglas Street Community - Supportive Recovery Program
Provides 22 supportive recovery beds for individuals in recovery. Staff are on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Stay is up to 6 months. Services include medication management, support in making physician referrals, and referral to ongoing wound care. Also provides holistic programming includi...
View serviceEnhanced Living Support
Provides 18 independent supportive housing units to people with substance dependencies and a concurrent physical or mental health issue. Offers a variety of supports including medication administration, help with financial planning, art therapy, and a weekly book club. Owned and property-managed by ...
View serviceHotel Maple
Provides 81 units of low-barrier housing for men and women, age 25 and up, from the Downtown Eastside who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, or who have health and social barriers; welfare housing rates apply. Services include access to mental health workers, medication storage and assistance,...
View serviceHugh Bird Residence
Provides 64 units of independent social housing for Downtown Eastside residents who need less support to transition from single room occupancy to independent living. Residents can participate in peer employment opportunities. Apply directly to housing provider.
View serviceIndigenous Health Services
Addresses health and wellness concerns and encourages healing by reconnecting First Nations people in the Downtown Eastside to traditional, spiritual, and cultural practices. Advocates for the visibility of Aboriginal health issues and educates service providers about Indigenous cultural traditions....
View serviceIrving Hotel
Provides 45 units of supportive housing to people with concurrent physical disabilities, mental health issues, or substance use dependency. Priority is given to people who are homeless or precariously housed. Units have access to laundry and shower facilities. Residents are supported by PHS mental h...
View serviceJohnson Street Community
Provides 147 units of long-term, low-barrier, supportive housing for homeless adults, including those with mental health and addictions issues. Services and supports for residents include four mental health workers available 24 hours a day, a full-time on-site manager, two home support workers avail...
View serviceMolson Hotel
Provides 42 units of supportive housing for individuals from the Downtown Eastside who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, or who have health and social barriers. Services provided include access to mental health workers and a breakfast program.
View serviceNeedle Depot
Provides harm reduction supplies, along with harm reduction education and referrals to health services, addictions services, and other social supports. Needle exchange services include distribution of clean needles, sterile water, and alcohol wipes; disposal of used needles; and health information t...
View serviceNew Fountain Shelter
Provides year-round, low-barrier, overnight emergency housing for 60 homeless adults age 25 and over from 7 pm to 9 am; shelter for all gender individuals, with a separate space for self-identified women. Services include advocacy, information and referral, outreach, and by-donation clothing availab...
View servicePHS Columbia Street Community Clinic
Provides on-site medical care with access to health professionals, lab work, and counselling for marginalized individuals in the community; hours are from 9 am to 12 noon and 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday. Services include assessment and same-day prescriptions for methadone and suboxone; clien...
View servicePHS Mobile Needle Exchange
Aims to prevent the transmission of HIV and other infections with a particular focus on intravenous drug users and sex trade workers. Provides harm reduction supplies, along with harm reduction education and referrals to health services, addictions services, and other social supports. Needle exchang...
View servicePennsylvania Hotel
Provides 44 self-contained suites with full bathrooms and kitchenettes for individuals from the Downtown Eastside who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, or who have health and social barriers. Half of the units have embedded clinical support via partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health. The Pen...
View servicePortland Dental Clinic
Provides dental care to residents of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, at a reduced fee or through the patient's dental insurance plan. Wheelchair accessible. Open Monday to Friday 9 am to 12 noon and 2 pm to 5 pm, except some Thursdays open from 9 am to 3 pm; an appointment is required.
View servicePortland Hotel
Provides 88 units of low-barrier supported housing for hard-to-house clients living with physical and mental health challenges, and substance use issues. Services provided include access to mental health workers and physicians, harm reduction, home support, medication management, and referrals to ot...
View serviceRainier Hotel
Provides 39 units of low-barrier, supported housing for individuals who identify as women age 19 or older who are dealing with substance use issues. Housing is communal with shared bathrooms and kitchens. Clients receive one-on-one support to develop and reach goals with either a harm reduction or r...
View serviceRegal Place Hotel
Provides 39 units of independent social housing for individuals who are attempting to manage their substance dependency issues and making steps away from active drug use. Staff support residents by encouraging and assisting them in their personal goals.
View serviceSmith-Yuen Apartments
Offers 52 self-contained suites for traditionally hard-to-house low-income seniors living with mental health issues, who had previously lacked stable, supported housing. Residents fall across a broad spectrum of independence and available programs strive to accommodate the full range of capabilities...
View serviceSpikes on Bikes
Community members with lived experience of drug misuse cycle around the Downtown Eastside, Gastown, and the West End in Vancouver on specially equipped bicycles to respond to drug overdoses. Also distribute Take Home Naloxone Kits (Narcan) that can be used to reverse the effects of opioid overdoses;...
View serviceThe Lark
Provides 33 units of low-barrier permanent housing for individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Double rooms are available for couples and shared hostel-style rooms for others. Supports include connection to health services and on-site support staff. Two meals served daily and laundr...
View serviceThe Osborn
24-hour, low-barrier shelter providing eight secure women-identified sheltering spaces, and 52 co-ed sheltering spaces; couples are welcome. Provides three meals daily as well as case planning that focuses on transitioning guests from being homeless to being housed. Includes a medical clinic space f...
View serviceThe Soleil
Provides 75 units of supportive housing for individuals who are homeless, including those with addiction and/or mental health issues. Services include wraparound support services, such as meals, health care, addictions treatment and harm reduction, and storage for personal belongings and other suppo...
View serviceUnity Housing
Provides low barrier transitional housing for mental health consumers. Rents family-type homes with four to six bedrooms. Services include laundry services, a meal program, mental health workers, a residential treatment and recovery program, and peer employment opportunities. Serves Metro Vancouver....
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