The Salt Spring Island Emergency Shelter is open during the storms of October 13,14, 15 due to a BC Housing announcement that funding would be available to open early due to the extreme weather conditions being experienced in the region currently. The shelter is located at the main Salt Spring Island Community Services site at […]
New Suicide Intervention Toolkits Available
October 14, 2016 by
These toolkits were initiated and developed to help parents, caregivers and professionals, like teachers and healthcare providers, reach out to children and youth who may be at risk for suicide on Salt Spring Island as well as for youth themselves. SALT SPRING ISLAND YOUTH SUICIDE INTERVENTION TOOLKIT A SUICIDE INTERVENTION TOOLKIT FOR PROFESSIONALS ON […]
Point-In-Time Homeless Count Report
May 24, 2016 by
On the night of February 10, 2016 there were at least 83 people experiencing homelessness on Salt Spring Island. The seasonal emergency shelter on Salt Spring Island ended the 2015/16 winter season and closed on March 6, 2016. As of that date 2400 people had accessed shelter services with an average of 20 people per […]
Salt Spring Team Focus on Child & Youth Mental Health
March 23, 2016 by
Salt Spring Island Community Services (SSICS) will launch the most recent turn in the 25 year evolution of Child and Youth programming with the welcome of Dr. Jessica Moretti to their location on Fulford-Ganges Road, providing child and adolescent psychiatric services as of Friday March 18th. Dr. Moretti is a Royal College of Physicians and […]
Emergency Shelter Taken Out of Action
March 7, 2016 by
The latest hit on an already overburdened program to shelter Salt Spring Island homeless has taken the facility used for the ‘In From the Cold’ shelter out of action temporarily. “Salt Spring Island Community Services regrets to announce the discovery of the presence of an unhealthy level of mold in the building used by the […]
