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“I feel like I have something to offer in helping and supporting others” – Matthew Goud, PHS Mental Health Worker....
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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 75 people and enabled a...
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Healthcare: the heart of PHS
The communities we serve suffer grave health inequities. And since we started in 1993, when Vancouver was tracking some of...
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‘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 blotting out their trauma with...
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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 use IV drugs are welcome...
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Insite: an anniversary of hope
Insite, which celebrates its 18th anniversary this month, is both a frontline clinical unit and a grassroots community project devoted...
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A race for the community is on!
The Under Armour Eastside 10K brings a real sense of community to runners, and fundraising support for the DTES. We...
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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 across the communities served. Throughout...
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The case against the war on drugs
The war on drugs has been a 50-year failure. By whatever measure you judge it – human rights, health, public...
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#ICYMI June news
In case you missed it! There’s always media interest in what we do at PHS. . . in June, there...
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