Nobody grows up with the aspiration to be the poster child for homelessness, but you take what you’ve been given, right?” Katrina Blanchard-Gervais laughs at the absurdity of it all, and she sounds more bright than bitter. After two years in homeless shelters, the mother of six now has an apartment as part of an […]
Salt Spring Joins 20,000 Homes
July 2, 2015 by
Salt Spring Community Services has signed onto a national initiative that strives to house 20,000 of Canada’s most vulnerable homeless people by July 1, 2018. The 20,000 Homes Campaign starts from the evidence-supported premise that permanent housing is a necessary first step to helping people work on the underlying problems that can cause homelessness, such […]
Service Delivery Changes Announced for Salt Spring Mental Health Services
May 5, 2015 by
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 […]
Mental Health and Housing on Salt Spring
March 12, 2015 by
Prepared by Salt Spring Community Services Executive Director, Rob Grant, for a Chamber of Commerce event February 26, 2015 on organizational goals and local involvement. Salt Spring Island Community Services
