Covenant House Vancouver

Covenant House Vancouver exists for those young people for whom there is often no one else — young people aged 16 - 24 who have either willingly fled physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse, those who have been forced from their homes or those who have aged out of foster care. We bandage their cut-up feet from days and nights walking the streets; we give them hot food and a warm bed and we support them in their choice to change their present circumstances while helping them heal from past traumas.

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In response to the enormity and severity of the issues facing our youth, Covenant House has developed three core services (Community Support Services, CSS, which provides street outreach and a daily, non-residential, drop-in program; a 54 bed-, 24-hour crisis shelter; and Rights of Passage, ROP, a 6- 24 months transitional living program). These core services are supported by several in-house programs (drug and alcohol and mental health counselling, life-skills training etc.) designed to provide each young person with a "one-stop shop" approach to leaving the streets and achieving independence. Regardless of what service a young person accesses, he/she also has access to Drug & Alcohol counselling, a Mental Health Clinician and Housing Workers.

Primarily privately funded, Covenant House relies on the generosity of over 50,000 individuals and organizations to provide shelter, food, clothing and counselling to over 2,000 young people each year.