Johnson 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 available Monday through Friday, and a primary care clinic that includes a full-time licenced practical nurse and a part-time doctor.

Also offers a supervised consumption site exclusively for residents and registered guests at Johnson Street Community. Provides a place where people who use drugs can be safely monitored and treated immediately if they overdose. 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 to encourage safer injection practices. Provides safer drug use supplies such as crack pipe mouthpiece and screens, and injection supplies. Provides opioid users with free Take Home Naloxone Kits (Narcan) that can be used to reverse the effects of overdoses from opioids like fentanyl, heroin, methadone, morphine, and oxycodone. Operated in partnership with Island Health.