Baldy Hughes Therapeutic Community
near Prince George provides a three-year abstinence-based recovery program for British Columbians seeking to end their substance misuse using a holistic approach based on the Therapeutic Community Model of San Patrignano, Italy.
150 Climate Action Dividend cheques put one person through the program for one year.
The Crossing at Keremeos
is housed on a 58-acre former Outward-Bound camp in the Similkameen Valley and is the first long-term residential treatment centre in B.C. for youth (aged 14-24) who are challenged by addiction.
Your Climate Action Dividend cheque will help to complete the renovations of the camp buildings: $25 purchases a window screen; $150 refinishes an interior door; $10,000 renovates and furnishes shared bedrooms.
Nanaimo Region John Howard Society Therapeutic Community
is actively seeking property for an urban Therapeutic Community for individuals who will benefit from a long-term integrated recovery program. The facility will house some 30 individuals who will make a minimum one-year commitment to the program.
Your Climate Action Dividend cheque will assist with start-up costs for this planned facility.
New Opportunities for Women (NOW) Canada Society
in Kelowna provides a variety of services and programs, taking a holistic approach to the empowerment of female youth who have been victims of sexual exploitation, as well as second-stage supportive and subsidized apartments for graduates of their program and other women, with and without children, who have a proven financial need.
Your Climate Action Dividend cheque will help to fund NOW Canada’s Safe Home Program, which includes three supportive transitional homes for sexually exploited female youth, single or with children.
Pacifica Housing, Stepping Stones for Families Project
in Victoria helps families move from crisis to stable housing by offering information, advocacy, housing readiness supports and access to a network of market and non-market housing providers. The Society owns and manages more than 550 units of affordable housing for low-income families and people with disabilities in Victoria and Nanaimo.
Your Climate Action Dividend cheque will assist Pacifica’s Stepping Stones for Families Project with the purchase of two identified buildings and their conversion to affordable housing as well as operating expenses for their Starting Point Housing Centre for Families.
Phoenix Centre
in Surrey is an innovative integrated addiction services facility that provides clinical addiction services as well as furnished studio units for transitional housing and educational and employment assistance focused on building capacity and asset development to enable people affected by addiction and homelessness to move out of poverty and achieve a sustainable livelihood.
Your Climate Action Dividend cheque will help to support the Phoenix Community Centre Initiative, a unique project bringing community leaders together with residents and clients of the Phoenix Centre in capacity-building initiatives for long-term stability.
In addition to the above programs we will be donating 30% of the net proceeds for projects identified by two broad-based community initiatives, one in Vancouver and one in Victoria:
The Greater Victoria Commission to End Homelessness
is a new non-profit community-based organization that will engage community organizations, governments and non-governmental agencies to work in partnership with each other and the broader community to lead and drive the commitment to end homelessness. This initiative is co-chaired by Mayor Alan Lowe and the Province’s former Conflict of Interest Commissioner, Ted Hughes.
Building Community Society of Greater Vancouver
is also a new non-profit community-based organization that will work collaboratively with all levels of government, business and community to end homelessness and generate affordable housing for low-income people through a community development approach. Businessman and philanthropist, Milton Wong, chairs a small group of respected community leaders drawn from business, planning, development, architecture and community activism in Vancouver. The group’s priority is to support development in the Downtown Eastside that is to the benefit of the residents of the predominately low-income community.
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