ShareThisDowntown Street Voice (DSV)
Covenant House's Downtown Street Voice (DSV) exists to bring awareness and education to issues that street entrenched and at risk youth face. DSV is a youth lead advocacy and activist group. This is Covenant House Vancouver's longest running youth group. Though it has taken many forms over the years, it has continued due to the hard work and dedication of a few youth, strong belief in youth engagement and great team work within Covenant House.
This group is mostly youth driven, but is staffed and funded by Covenant House. That means this groups runs as a democracy within itself as to its group guidelines, direction, allocation of the DSV budget, and membership agreements but all meetings are facilitated by a Life Skills Worker.
One of the services DSV offers is "The Real Game of Life" which they faciliate to groups who are interested in learning what it's really like to live on the streets. Click here for more information.
