Providing Outreach services and supplies to meet the basic needs in remote communities along the West Coast of Vancouver Island.
Successful Workshops
Our workshops are full beyond capacity forcing us to find a bigger space.
St’uxwtéws Warriors and Mini Warriors
Youth have become connected to their culture, developing the skills of their ancestors and achieving academic success.
Smithers Community Services
Jun 30, 2024
Enhancing client quality of life and self-sufficiency by increasing food security.
Reducing Barriers
Guiding and empowering clients to take ownership and develop self-efficacy.
Providing Empathetic Witness
Providing non-judgemental safe space for people feeling alone in their struggles.
Proactive Intervention
Testimony from people with lived experience provide a turning point for high-risk youth.
Pooling Resources
Dec 31, 2024
The number of nightly guests accessing the Hama?elas Kitchen increasing while food donations from grocery stores to the food bank decreases.
St’uxwtéws Bonaparte First Nation
Building relationships with families and connecting youth to their culture.
Overdose Prevention
Providing training to reverse toxic drug poisoning.
Oceanside Outreach
The benefit of an Outreach services resource map for Nanaimo and the Oceanside community.
Navigating Everyday Challenges
Helping clients achieve success through their housing action plan.
Low Barrier Program
Peer support and assistance build rapport and trust quickly.
Life Changing Impact
Providing supports based on individual need.
Knowledge Sharing
Connecting Elders with youth to share knowledge.
Increasing Outreach Services
Sep 30, 2024
The potential of homelessness increases in the Southern Interior of British Columbia every summer as the community shelter closes and tourism flourishes.
Increasing Connection with Culture
Youth engagement in cultural learning has increased significantly.
Increasing Capacity
Providing the resources and information to meet the individual needs of our clients.
Increased Demand for Services
Ensuring survival on the streets in Winter.
Homelessness Prevention Project
Sep 30, 2024
Checking in with clients accessing our support services to offer additional wrap-around services.
Healing Fires
A welcoming space for people to gather for a meal, engage in conversations, and strengthening connections with community members.
Hama?elas Community Kitchen
Providing a meal nourishes the body and soul.
Food Security Workshops
Sep 30, 2024
Providing workshops leads to an increase in community volunteers.
Developing Relationships and Knowledge
A collaborative approach between agencies to provide resources in such a way that reduces both duplication and service gaps.
Cultivating Self-Confidence
Building capacity in youth.
Community Outreach Program
Small gradual changes and seeking safe spaces aids in sobriety.
Case Management and Mediation
The importance of providing case management and mediation services to mend relationships and assist clients with meeting their goals.
Building Trust
Outreach workers meeting clients where there are at.
At-risk Assessments
Implementing youth home visits and partnering with another organization allowed us to provide assessments and get the proper resources to youth and families in need.
Advocating Treatment
The importance of coordinated systems of care when weather impacts the ability to enter treatment program.
The PGNAETA Reaching Home Division are honoured to work, live and play on the unceded traditional and ancestral territory of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation.
