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PHS Community Services Society

Housing · Health · Harm reduction · Food

The Portland Hotel Society operates supportive housing, food programs, and harm-reduction health services concentrated in the DTES, with additional sites in Victoria.

RainCity Housing and Support Society

Housing · Shelter · Health · Harm reduction

Supportive housing, shelters, and outreach for people living with mental illness, addiction, and homelessness. Head office is on Powell Street in the DTES; programs run across the Lower Mainland and Sunshine Coast.

Lookout Housing and Health Society

Housing · Shelter · Drop-in · Health · Harm reduction

Emergency shelters, supportive housing, drop-in, and health programs for people who are homeless or precariously housed across Metro Vancouver, including the Powell Street Gateway drop-in in the DTES.

Aboriginal Front Door Society

Indigenous · Drop-in · Harm reduction · Advocacy

Indigenous-led drop-in, cultural support, and harm reduction at 390 Main Street, a city-owned building in the DTES.

First United Church Community Ministry Society

Shelter · Food · Advocacy · Faith-based · Harm reduction

A century-old Hastings Street ministry: meals, shelter, legal advocacy, tax filing, spiritual care, and overdose response.

Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation

Health · Harm reduction · Housing

Day health, residence, and supervised consumption for people living with HIV and intersecting mental illness, addiction, and poverty. West End, with a large DTES clientele.

PACE Society

Women · Advocacy · Health · Harm reduction

By and for sex workers: harm reduction, advocacy, and support, based in the DTES.

Kilala Lelum Health and Healing Lodge

Indigenous · Health · Harm reduction

Indigenous-led primary care, cultural healing, and harm reduction on Powell Street.

Overdose Prevention Society

Harm reduction · Health

Peer-run overdose prevention site on East Hastings. A defining DTES harm-reduction operator.

Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users

Harm reduction · Advocacy

Drug-user union and peer-run programs. A political and service fixture of the DTES since the 1990s.

Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society

Indigenous · Harm reduction · Advocacy

Indigenous peer-run harm-reduction and research group in the DTES. Partners with VANDU and academic health centres on drug-user-led work.

Inner City Women's Initiatives Society

Women · Harm reduction · Drop-in

Runs Downtown Auxiliary Mobile Services (DAMS): outreach, harm reduction, and ongoing support for women in the DTES.

YouthCO HIV & Hep C Society

Youth · Health · Harm reduction

Youth-led HIV, hep C, and harm-reduction education. Serves young people across Vancouver, including those in the DTES.

Drug User Liberation Front

Harm reduction · Advocacy

Peer-run compassion club and fulfillment centre in the DTES that tested and distributed a safer supply of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, and is litigating a constitutional challenge.

Health Initiative for Men

Health · Harm reduction

Gay, bi, queer men’s health society: sexual health, mental health, and the Hustle program for men in sex work, including DTES-connected clients.

Pacific AIDS Network

Health · Harm reduction · Advocacy

Provincial network of HIV, hepatitis, and harm-reduction organizations. Members include AIDS Vancouver, YouthCO, and DTES-serving health societies.

Avalon Recovery Society

Women · Harm reduction · Health

Free recovery services for women and families with lived experience of addiction and trauma. City Core Support recipient.

Pacifica Treatment Centre

Health · Harm reduction

Residential substance-use treatment in East Vancouver serving VCH and Fraser clients, including people from the DTES.

Vancouver Recovery Club

Drop-in · Harm reduction

24-hour drop-in and referral for recovering alcoholics and addicts. BC Housing homelessness-outreach funded.

Moms Stop The Harm

Advocacy · Harm reduction

Network of families advocating to end overdose deaths, change drug policy, and support people who use drugs and those who grieve them.

Community Builders Benevolence Group

Housing · Harm reduction · Health · Drop-in

Community Builders Benevolence Group is a non-profit located in Vancouver's DTES that provides affordable and supportive housing to individuals facing barriers such as homelessness, poverty, mental illness, and substance use. They operate 15 housing sites, including several…

Indigenous Wellness Training Society

Harm reduction · Health · Indigenous · Employment

The Indigenous Wellness Training Society (IWTS) is a Vancouver-based non-profit organization focused on empowering Indigenous communities through culturally grounded recovery and wellness programs. Programs include counselling, healing courses, and land-based teachings.

Providence Living Society

Housing · Food · Harm reduction · Health

Providence Living is committed to improving both the environment and experience of older British Columbians living in long-term care. Operates two affordable care homes in DTES. Central City Lodge is a long-term care community composed of residents predominantly from the DTES…

Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA Metro Vancouver)

Housing · Shelter · Food · Harm reduction · Health · Women

Advances gender equity alongside women, families, Two-Spirit and gender diverse people through advocacy and integrated services that help support personal, collective and economic well-being. 81 programs and services offered in 42 locations throughout Metro Vancouver. In the…