Watch In From The Cold, a window into the world of rural homelessness.
In From The Cold is a 35 minute film produced by Island Community Services that explores the situation of homelessness on Salt Spring through the voices of service providers and the homeless individuals themselves.
This film invites viewers into the worlds of the people living homeless or housing insecure on Salt Spring Island.
Service providers and frontline workers from the Housing First program and the Emergency Shelter of Island Community Services describe the reality of working with the meagre resources available to rural communities. In a place where the homelessness rate per capita is several times higher than that of metro Vancouver or Greater Victoria and where the services available in urban areas are nowhere to be seen, ‘In from the Cold’ is a look a the struggles people face when there is simply ‘no place to ‘be’.