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October 25, 2024
Members of a Downtown Eastside Indigenous soccer team, First Nations BC, are looking ahead to...
Read MoreMore than 20 experienced and innovative providers of low-barrier supportive housing have come together to...
Read MorePHS Community Services Society opened two new housing developments in late 2023. There was 80-unit...
Read MoreWe’re opening new housing in Vancouver and Victoria to bring people in from the cold....
Read MoreIf ever there was a non-partisan issue, it’s the drug poisoning crisis. It’s hitting all...
Read MoreNathan Edelson was an urban visionary. He was a City planner who advocated for social...
Read MoreWhen Insite opened in September 2003, it wasn’t just the first sanctioned site in North...
Read MoreAs we come up to our 20th year of low-barrier community banking, Pigeon Park Savings...
Read MoreResearch demonstrates the devastating health impacts of homelessness, for individuals and all society. Homelessness is...
Read MoreThe toxic drugs public health emergency is a crisis of incomprehensible scale that has claimed more...
Read MoreIt’s hard for people outside of the neighbourhood to come to know the Downtown Eastside....
Read MoreOne more time with feeling: it’s not a zero-sum game. Despite the polarized discussion happening...
Read MorePHS provides a lifeline to a marginalized and under-served community, providing services that go far...
Read MorePHS is rolling out the Lifeguard overdose alert app in our supportive housing and shelters...
Read MorePigeon Park Savings is continuously innovating to provide low barrier banking services to the Downtown...
Read MorePHS operates two high-tech drug checking machines in the Downtown Eastside. Based at Insite and...
Read MoreMore than 10,000 deaths have been recorded in B.C. due to unregulated drugs since the...
Read MoreThe PHS team is innovating to protect vulnerable people from extreme weather. Extreme weather is...
Read MoreOpening a Pigeon Park Savings account is easy. The ID requirements are minimal compared to...
Read MoreDonations allow PHS to innovate and keep critical programs growing. Generous contributions from B2Gold Corp....
Read More“Mental Health Workers are the individuals that can shift and move as needs present themselves.”...
Read MoreFormer PHS Mental Health Worker Allison Russell is nominated in three Grammy Awards categories at...
Read MoreJoin our expanding medical team and work at the leading edge of addiction medicine. The...
Read More“I feel like I have something to offer in helping and supporting others” – Matthew...
Read MoreThroughout the year-and-a-half of the COVID-19 pandemic, PHS’s Victoria operation has created new housing for...
Read MoreThe communities we serve suffer grave health inequities. And since we started in 1993, when...
Read MoreWalking through the Downtown Eastside you see human suffering at its rawest – people temporarily...
Read MorePHS’s New Fountain Shelter allows open drug use – to save lives. Shelter guests who...
Read MoreInsite, which celebrates its 18th anniversary this month, is both a frontline clinical unit and...
Read MoreThe Under Armour Eastside 10K brings a real sense of community to runners, and fundraising...
Read MoreVaccinations are ending the pandemic – which is why PHS staff are supporting pop-up clinics...
Read MoreThe war on drugs has been a 50-year failure. By whatever measure you judge it...
Read MoreIn case you missed it! There’s always media interest in what we do at PHS....
Read MoreGiving to others gives back to you. PHS Community Services Society is a registered charity...
Read MoreA community business has a novel approach to fundraising that’s collected more than $25,000 towards...
Read MoreMental Health Workers are the heart of frontline PHS operations in Victoria and Vancouver. These...
Read MoreVancouver’s former Army & Navy department store will serve as an innovative pathway to housing...
Read MoreThe public face of PHS is all about the services provided to the community, but...
Read MoreAward-winning Vancouver artisan coffee and chocolate specialists East Van Roasters (EVR) has a new ownership...
Read MoreAn innovative PHS program to serve alcohol at an outdoor parklet as a public health measure is now underway...
Read MoreAn innovative temporary shelter operated by PHS Community Services Society at a Victoria hockey arena...
Read MoreA new multi-year PHS project will provide life-saving pharmaceutical alternatives to toxic street drugs. The SAFER Initiative...
Read MoreRV trailers operated by PHS to provide temporary quarantine stays PHS Community Services Society is...
Read MoreTributes paid to civil liberties icon who helped save Insite “When the Canadian government tried...
Read MoreDecriminalization of Personal Possession of Illicit Drugs Membership at the November 18, 2020 Annual General...
Read MoreResearchers confirm the lifesaving power of a safe supply of drugs “It will come as...
Read MoreApplying harm reduction to illicit drinking A peer-led PHS program that gives people alternatives to...
Read MoreHomeless count examines race: minority groups significantly more like to be on the streets This...
Read MoreDoctors integrate opioid agonist treatments in their practice PHS medical director Dr. Christy Sutherland talks...
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