Covenant House Vancouver

The DTES (Downtown Eastside) Connect will bring together several lower mainalnd NGOs who serve homeless and street involved people in Vancouver.  A media resource centre, the DTES Connect will provide access to organizations and their spokespeople/clients to the international media during the month of February.  For more information, contact DTES Connect.

Click here to read the Tyee article on the Streetohome Foundation's plan to raise private dollars to end homelessness in Vancouver.

What do you think of their plan?

On any given night across Canada, 65,000 youth are without a place to call home. A new report, Youth Homelessness in Canada: The Road to Solutions, authored by Raising the Roof, offers recommendations for a national strategy to deal with the issue of youth homelessness.

In order to identify the key challenges facing youth on the street, the authors of the report interviewed 700 homeless youth. "Canada desperately needs a national strategy to truly support our country's homeless and disenfranchised young people," says Sean Gadon, president of Raising the Roof. "Our young people have told us they want and expect to be part of the solution in working with government, community and private sector partners. We all have a responsibility and a part to play in implementing solutions."

For more information, and to download the full report, click here

Let us know what you think of the report.

Our young people tell us frequently about the dangers of living on the streets:  getting robbed while you're sleeping (sometimes even having shoes removed in the middle of the night) or getting assaulted is commonplace.  Street youth say it's difficult to focus on bigger health issues when you're just trying to find your next meal.  This Tyee article shines a light on the sheer danger of trying to survive on the streets.