This past Sunday our youth took part in a Vancouver Street Soccer League tournament. Covenant House fielded 2 teams and one of our teams came in 2nd Place. The first place win went to a Portland Hotel Society team, but our youth were thrilled with the second place title! There was tons of cheering, high fives and many proud faces.

Do you have gently used or new sports equipment that you are not using? If so we would love to have it for our various youth recreation programs.

Here is the list we are hoping to get:

1.  Soccer goalie gloves

2.  Soccer cleats for artificial surfaces, sizes 8-12

3.  Soccer balls

4.  Pylons

5.  Baseball bats (softball)

6.  Baseball gloves

7.  Ball hats

We are thrilled to present a new television spot that was produced by TAXI Advertising  for our friends at Covenant House Toronto, who kindly offered to produce a BC version as well.  I love the hopeful message this spot portrays because our youth really do have their whole lives ahead of them – they just need a little help along the way.

April 22-27 is known as National Volunteer Week and Covenant House Vancouver would like to send a big "Thank you" to all our Volunteers! This week on our blog we will be featuring all things volunteer related including wonderful stories written by our volunteers about their experiences at CHV.

Covenant House Vancouver Volunteers have:

On Saturday from 9:00-3:00pm, the Ride for Ryder Team volunteered to help sort Gift-in-Kind donations and do spring cleaning in our development & communications and CSS areas.

They made CHV shine and we thank them for their hard work and wish them good luck on their ride!

From all of us at Covenant House Vancouver we wish you and yours a wonderful Easter weekend.

Enjoy this lovely card from a supporter.

Thank-a-Thon's are fun-filled evenings and now days where volunteers get together and call our donors just to say “thank-you”. Because we are primarily privately funded, it is important for us to be able to reach our donors and thank them personally for the difference they make in our young peoples’ lives.

Starting in April, volunteers will meet at Covenant House every Monday and Tuesday from 5:30pm-8:00pm or arrange a time during the day with our volunteer coordinator. You can sign up to volunteer for one Thank-a-Thon or as many as you like!

Hey Everyone,

I’m writing in regards to the shelter chess group that I am starting up for the youth this month.  If I’m correct, I believe this will be the first chess group done at CHV!  I know chess isn’t that exciting to everyone but it’s one of my passions and I’m looking forward to teaching the youth about it.  Ultimately, it’s another positive outlet available for the youth to take part in.