PHS Community Services Society provides housing, harm reduction & healthcare in Vancouver’s DTES & beyond. Co-manages Insite & Onsite with @VCHhealthcare
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One supervised consumption site can prevent 83 new cases of HIV in a single year, saving more than $17 million in future healthcare costs - Canadian Public Health Association.
Harm reduction saves lives and money.
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"Supportive housing reduces pressure on public services."
Amanda Burrows & Genesa Greening write that supportive housing reduces emergency calls by 32 per cent.
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We recently received a generous donation of $150,000 from our friends @B2GoldCorp to help us care for people who need our help the most in Vancouver and Victoria.
Since 2020, B2Gold has donated almost $1 million to PHS and we are incredibly thankful for their continued support.
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"We are still losing five or six people every single day of every week of every month" - former chief coroner Lisa Lapointe.
"Anything we can do to address the harms, to reduce the deaths, I am wholeheartedly in support of."
Doctors' OD prevention site: bit.ly/3CQsiJZ
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PHS Board issues Open Letter in support of dedicated frontline workers.
Open to new signers. Let us know if you’d like to add your name to this call for respect for those at the forefront of combatting homelessness and public health crises.
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The City of Vancouver spent $3m on enforcing and then dismantling the CRAB Park homeless encampment.
That could have funded 200 tiny shelters - Councillor Pete Fry.
globalnews.ca/news/11006228/…
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Victoria support workers are busy replacing warm belongings taken from homeless people by bylaw officers.
"They take away their blankets, and then it snows,” said Niki Ottosen of Victoria Backpack Project.
“The situation is really desperate out there."
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It would cost the City of Victoria $4.7 million to keep moving homeless people from Pandora Avenue.
Ron Rice, of Victoria Native Friendship Centre: “Telling someone, ‘You can't be homeless here, go be homeless over there,’ is not a solution.”
More: bit.ly/4hi6Qwf
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The race is ON! Early bird registration is now open for the Under Armour Eastside 10K, an iconic Vancouver run through historic neighbourhoods on Sunday September 21, 2025.
To sign up and/or support PHS: canadarunningseries.com/vanc…
#UAEastside10K @RunCRSWest
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Physicians are planning unsanctioned pop-up overdose prevention sites at hospitals across Canada following the BC model.
Organizer Dr. Eva Hemmerich told @Filtermag_org: “There have been people dying in the bathroom. Or in the forest. In the bushes.”
filtermag.org/overdose-preve…
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BC Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon: without supportive housing “you have people living in parks, living in encampments, sleeping on bus stops that is actually more unsafe for communities than having people indoors with the support they need.”
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Victoria's bylaw-first approach to Pandora Ave homelessness has pushed the tents to nearby streets.
UVic nursing professor Bernie Pauly: “When we displace people, we are pushing them further into homelessness as opposed to showing them a pathway out.”
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The UK's legal drug consumption room was driven by one man’s civil disobedience.
@PeteKrykant_OPC went on the road with his own safe consumption van to show the process saves lives, reduces disease and brings stability to street-entrenched drug users.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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A Better Life Foundation feeds marginalized people in the Downtown Eastside in a restaurant setting.
Executive director Ash MacLeod: “We want to take pessimism and turn it into hope.”
Read on: bit.ly/4hdExPj
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