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January 11, 2023

Affordable DTES dentistry gives dignity and quality of life

PHS provides a lifeline to a marginalized and under-served community, providing services that go far...

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December 14, 2022

Lifeguard on duty: raising the alarm on overdoses

PHS is rolling out the Lifeguard overdose alert app in our supportive housing and shelters...

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Welcome to Pigeon Park Savings
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October 14, 2022

A PHS community service you can bank on

Pigeon Park Savings is continuously innovating to provide low barrier banking services to the Downtown...

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September 29, 2022

Mass spectrometry drug checking for the DTES

PHS operates two high-tech drug checking machines in the Downtown Eastside. Based at Insite and...

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August 19, 2022

Calls for safe supply as B.C. overdose crisis claims 10,000 lives

More than 10,000 deaths have been recorded in B.C. due to unregulated drugs since the...

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July 15, 2022

PHS provides shelter from extreme weather

The PHS team is innovating to protect vulnerable people from extreme weather. Extreme weather is...

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June 14, 2022

Pigeon Park Savings: low barrier DTES banking

Opening a Pigeon Park Savings account is easy. The ID requirements are minimal compared to...

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April 4, 2022

Keeping up with community need – with a little help from our friends

Donations allow PHS to innovate and keep critical programs growing. Generous contributions from B2Gold Corp....

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March 18, 2022

Make a difference. Join PHS.

“Mental Health Workers are the individuals that can shift and move as needs present themselves.”...

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February 25, 2022

PHS alumni sings of ‘art and community and chosen family’

Former PHS Mental Health Worker Allison Russell is nominated in three Grammy Awards categories at...

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February 11, 2022

PHS hiring nurses in Vancouver

Join our expanding medical team and work at the leading edge of addiction medicine. The...

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PHS Mental Health Workers - now hiring!
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January 28, 2022

We’re growing. Join the team.

“I feel like I have something to offer in helping and supporting others” – Matthew...

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December 30, 2021

Housing homeless people in a pandemic

Throughout the year-and-a-half of the COVID-19 pandemic, PHS’s Victoria operation has created new housing for...

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November 12, 2021

Healthcare: the heart of PHS

The communities we serve suffer grave health inequities. And since we started in 1993, when...

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Guy Felicella with his family
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October 22, 2021

‘We are in a trauma crisis’ – Guy Felicella on the overdose emergency

Walking through the Downtown Eastside you see human suffering at its rawest – people temporarily...

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October 8, 2021

Radical pragmatism: how harm reduction saves lives at a PHS homeless shelter

PHS’s New Fountain Shelter allows open drug use – to save lives. Shelter guests who...

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September 17, 2021

Insite: an anniversary of hope

  Insite, which celebrates its 18th anniversary this month, is both a frontline clinical unit...

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August 20, 2021

A race for the community is on!

The Under Armour Eastside 10K brings a real sense of community to runners, and fundraising...

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August 6, 2021

From marginalized to prioritized: how the community became a vaccination-drive focus

Vaccinations are ending the pandemic – which is why PHS staff are supporting pop-up clinics...

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July 16, 2021

The case against the war on drugs

The war on drugs has been a 50-year failure. By whatever measure you judge it...

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July 5, 2021

#ICYMI June news

In case you missed it! There’s always media interest in what we do at PHS....

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June 16, 2021

Supporters building community in the Downtown Eastside and Victoria one donation at a time

Giving to others gives back to you. PHS Community Services Society is a registered charity...

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June 4, 2021

Vancouver business inviting customers to support people hit by homelessness and overdose crisis

A community business has a novel approach to fundraising that’s collected more than $25,000 towards...

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PHS Mental Health Workers - now hiring!
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May 21, 2021

Mental Health Workers: where housing meets harm reduction

Mental Health Workers are the heart of frontline PHS operations in Victoria and Vancouver. These...

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May 10, 2021

PHS has an innovative response to homelessness in store

Vancouver’s former Army & Navy department store will serve as an innovative pathway to housing...

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April 30, 2021

The PHS Board: volunteers maintaining our vision & values

The public face of PHS is all about the services provided to the community, but...

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April 9, 2021

East Van Roasters serves up ambitious expansion plans

Award-winning Vancouver artisan coffee and chocolate specialists East Van Roasters (EVR) has a new ownership...

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PHS Community Managed Alcohol Program
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March 31, 2021

Applying harm reduction to alcohol consumption on city streets

An innovative PHS program to serve alcohol at an outdoor parklet as a public health measure is now underway...

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Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre shelter, Victoria, B.C.
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March 5, 2021

Arena offers relief to homeless in Victoria

An innovative temporary shelter operated by PHS Community Services Society at a Victoria hockey arena...

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February 5, 2021

PHS to deliver multi-year safe supply program

A new multi-year PHS project will provide life-saving pharmaceutical alternatives to toxic street drugs. The SAFER Initiative...

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RV to shelter homeless in Vancouver
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January 28, 2021

Sheltering homeless people while they wait for COVID-19 test results

RV trailers operated by PHS to provide temporary quarantine stays PHS Community Services Society is...

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December 16, 2020

“We’ve lost a true friend and a genuine hero”

Tributes paid to civil liberties icon who helped save Insite “When the Canadian government tried...

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November 20, 2020

Letter of support to Mayor Stewart

Decriminalization of Personal Possession of Illicit Drugs Membership at the November 18, 2020 Annual General...

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September 18, 2020

Safe supply saves lives

Researchers confirm the lifesaving power of a safe supply of drugs “It will come as...

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breaking the cycle of survival drinking
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September 4, 2020

Breaking the cycle of survival drinking

Applying harm reduction to illicit drinking A peer-led PHS program that gives people alternatives to...

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August 15, 2020

Homeless count examines race-based data

Homeless count examines race: minority groups significantly more like to be on the streets This...

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Dr. Christy Sutherland
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October 8, 2020

Dr. Christy Sutherland on advances in treatment options

Doctors integrate opioid agonist treatments in their practice PHS medical director Dr. Christy Sutherland talks...

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