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 […]
New Housing Needs Survey Highlights Local Challenges
April 20, 2015 by
A family housing survey completed last month confirmed that many Salt Spring Island households are challenged to find suitable and secure housing within their financial means. The survey, conducted by Salt Spring Community Services, considered the full range of long term housing needs – from very low-income households looking for rentals to dual income households wanting to […]
RCMP donation
March 23, 2015 by
The RCMP has kindly offered to donate the annual rebate they receive from Co-op for fuel purchases back to the community. They have identified domestic violence as a general area to direct the funds. SSICS has offered to establish a restricted fund for this purpose, and use the existing Victim Services and ICAT programs as […]
Groundskeeping
March 23, 2015 by
For the past number of years the groundskeeping and landscaping at SSICS sites has been blended with the community gardening operations. As our gardening and food security activities have increased this has been more challenging. This year we will revert back to having these functions separated and groundskeeping and landscaping will be contracted out to another […]
Cold Weather Shelter
March 23, 2015 by
The cold weather shelter wrap up for the season on March 15. Over the remaining two weeks of March the shelter will open only if the weather takes a turn for the worse. Time will be taken over the next few weeks to help individuals who have been frequent shelter users make this transition. The milder […]
Core Inn
March 20, 2015 by
A number of positive things are brewing for the Core Inn building and programs. We are somewhat back on track with BC Gaming and will receive $20,000 annually towards youth drop-in operations. This returns us to a similar the level of funding that was provided 7 years ago. We have been addressing the state of […]
Family Place Vancouver Island Health Foundation Project
March 20, 2015 by
We will receive $20,000 this year to enhance the Family Place program capacity to support families with children with special needs, and families with children who may require assessments to determine their special needs. A significant aspect of this service will be assisting with the navigation of systems and facilitating connections with resources such as […]
Interagency Case Assessment Team
March 20, 2015 by
The Interagency Case Assessment Team (ICAT), which is a collaborative effort of numerous organizations hosted by SSICS, will receive $ 29,500 towards its operation for the upcoming year. The committee addresses serious domestic violence issues, and is closely associated with our Victim Services program.
Homelessness Prevention Program
March 20, 2015 by
We have been successsful in achieving an agreement with BC Housing to let us partially in the door to their homelessness programming. SSICS has lobbied over the years to be included in the Homelessness Outreach program which provides over 60 BC communities with Homelessness Outreach Workers. This program was enhanced this year with the Homelessness […]
Recycle Depot Funding
March 20, 2015 by
The Capital Regional District Board has made the most favourable decision hoped for regarding recycling depot funding. They will continue to provide the same level of funding to rural depots as in the past until 2019. This is the year that the new Multi Materials BC agreement with the CRD for blue box recycling expires. […]
