Covenant House Vancouver

Click here to read our September e-newsletter.

Sorry to be so late reporting this; just back from holidays and am catching up on all the news I missed when I was off.  In June we wrote about  H.R. 1623, a bill written to expand the protection of Megan's Law, mandating reporting requirements for convicted sex traffickers including pimps against minors to engage in international travel, and preventing entry into the U.S. by any foreign sex offender against a minor. 

Click here for Covenant House International's piece on this recently passed legislation and thanks to our American friends who supported this new and important piece of legislation.

First we want to send a big thanks to each and every one of you who have voted for Covenant House Vancouver through the Pepsi Refresh Project. Your daily votes are helping to keep us in the running for the $100,000.00 grant.

Below are comments taken from our Pepsi Refresh page from youth that we have worked with. I hope our young people's comments help keep you motivated to vote for us and let you know that you truly are making a difference in the lives of our youth.

Last Saturday I had the opportunity to present at Mental Health Camp. The theme of this year's conference was "Breaking the Silence" so my presentation spoke to our use of "On the House" in helping to break the silence around mental illness. I spent some time giving background on how our mental health program came to be and the amazing results the initial pilot project produced (which lead to the program becoming a permanent offering at Covenant House), such as:

The average wait-time for a youth to see a psychiatrist has gone from 6 months to 8 days

After not seeing changes in the rankings for the Pepsi Refresh project we have now jumped 27 spots and are currently in 2nd place. It is all thanks to you and your daily voting.

Please keep voting, tweeting and facebooking about Covenant House Vancouver and the Pepsi Refresh project.

Thanks for all your hard work: now go vote and win us $100,000.00.

How can you help?

1. Go to http://www.refresheverything.ca/login

2. Then go to http://www.refresheverything.ca/covenanthousevancouver

3. Click on the "Vote for this idea" button.

You will hear the sound of a Pepsi can opening and your vote will be counted.

4. Do this once per day, as the winner will be the idea with the most votes by August 31st.

What else can you do to help?

Put a reminder in your Outlook / I-Calendar
Set as your homepage
Share with friends and family

Please remember that, the more votes that we receive, the better a chance we have at winning and continuing to make a difference in the lives of our youth.

 

 

 

Pepsi Canada has just launched a new contest to help fund projects across Canada that will improve our communities. Covenant House has been selected as one of these projects and now we need your vote.

How can you help?

1. Go to http://www.refresheverything.ca/login

2. Then go to http://www.refresheverything.ca/covenanthousevancouver

3. Click on the "Vote for this idea" button.

You will hear the sound of a Pepsi can opening and your vote will be counted.

4. Do this once per day, as the winner will be the idea with the most votes by August 31st.

What else can you do to help?

• Put a reminder in your Outlook / I-Calendar
• Set as your homepage
• Share with friends and family
• Please remember that, the more votes that we receive, the better a chance we have at winning and continuing to make a difference in the lives of our youth.

THANKS!!

Thanks to our good friend Elaine Lui, we were in the Spotlight at the Smut Soiree in Toronto Monday night. Click here for all the details.

Thank you Elaine for your on-going, enthusiastic and generous support of our young people. We are thrilled with Cory Monteith’s video and his $5,000 matching donor challenge.

Thrilled to report that our blog took home the Silver at the CPRS National Awards of Excellence ceremony last night in Regina. 

Kristy and I are the primary contributors to the blog and we LOVE blogging and love it even more when you comment on our posts, so thanks for reading us and for giving us your feedback - please keep it up!

I would like to thank Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo from Capulet Communications who helped us with our social media plan and also Raised Eyebrow Web Studio, our blog designers. 

Also, sincere thanks go to the youth and staff here at Covenant House who have contributed to the blog and whose support of it made this award possible.

We're pleased to announce that Cirque du Soleil has once again chosen to partner with Covenant House, donating tickets for fundraising purposes. All the proceeds from the tickets we sell will come directly to Covenant House Vancouver and our young people.

Enjoy this sneak peak into the magic of Cirque du Soleil and KOOZA

Kooza is an electrifying and exotic visual world full of surprises, thrills, chills, audacity and total involvement.  This show delights with tons of acrobatic performances and clowning.

Not only will you have an amazing night out but you will be supporting Vancouver's street youth as well. Please join us!

Cirque du Soleil's benefit night for Covenant House is on Friday, August 6th, 2010.
Tickets: $150 (a portion of the ticket price is eligible for a tax receipt)

For tickets and/or information please contact:
Mark Savard
Development Officer - Community Giving
savard@covenanthousebc.org
Tel. 604-639-8922