Salt Spring Island Community Services welcomed the news from Island Health this week that they are increasing funding for mental health supports that have, so far, been unavailable or underfunded on Salt Spring. Island Health announced that they are increasing investment in mental health and substance use care provision on Salt Spring and the […]
Core Inn Energy Audit
April 28, 2015 by
The Core Inn underwent an interesting review of it’s energy efficiency which included such high-tech processes of photographing every wall with an infrared camera and conducting a blower test to discover air leakage. We included a teaching component in the process for a group of Gulf Island Secondary students. The report has just landed on […]
United Way Funding
April 28, 2015 by
SSICS will receive $ 100,000 for each of the next two years from United Way of Greater Victoria. This is a significant reduction from past years, and it required some quick and difficult analysis to determine where the funding would be best allocated. We determined that a simple formula of $ 75,000 for Mental Health […]
People’s Roots
April 28, 2015 by
With our garden activities off and running for the season we have undertaken an updating of the communications strategy including a new name and image. As this program area has expanded we have moved from “Food Bank” to “Food Security” to “Food Programs” (all rather bland) to a more interesting name “People Roots: Growing […]
Salt Spring Island Celebrates Youth Week
April 27, 2015 by
Community partners across Salt Spring Island are joining to support Salt Spring Youth Week. Salt Spring Community Services and the Core Inn and Climbing Wall, PARC and the Rainbow Road Pool, the Salt Spring Island Library, Country Grocer and Thrifty’s are sponsoring the week in tandem with the 21st annual BC Youth Week running May […]
