Last night, 150 individuals, families and business slept apart but "together" in solidarity with the hundreds of young people who call Vancouver’s streets home, to raise funds for our Street Outreach Program. Sleep Out: Home Edition was a special opportunity to ... Read more

Tonight, Covenant House Vancouver will host our first virtual Sleep Out: Home Edition. As a virtual event, we are encouraging people to Sleep Out "together" in solidarity with homeless youth while remaining physically apart to raise funds and awareness for ... Read more

I received a call from a team member at our Crisis Program who needed the Outreach Team’s help. Alice had been staying in our Crisis Program for a few days after fleeing an unsafe, and abusive situation.Alice had been at ... Read more

Rodrigo is a young man who would come into the Drop-In Centre to get his various needs met, like receiving food and clothing. At first, he did not interact much with our staff or other youth. Rodrigo was staying at ... Read more

In the past we have shared how our Outreach Team creatively found new ways to meet the needs of youth (serving meals, providing clothing, and more) while still respecting social distancing. Today we wanted to share how they continue to adapt and ... Read more

Earlier this week, we shared with you that our Drop-In Centre had to close to protect the health and safety of our youth, staff, and greater community. We also shared that youth would still be able to receive the services ... Read more

I started working with Rachel a couple of years ago, she was experiencing so much trauma from having been brought up in an abusive home. She moved to Vancouver to escape everything and tried to start her new life here. ... Read more

During Street Outreach we were handing out sandwiches and other items like we always do and we ran into a youth on the street that we didn’t know. He said he had just got out of the hospital. He had his little ... Read more

Brianne a new staff member of our Development and Communications Team had the opportunity to learn about Outreach and participate in a shadow with an Outreach Worker. Below Brianne shares what the experience was like: I had the opportunity to ... Read more

I started my Outreach Program shift with some exciting news. It turns out that a young lady, fleeing sexual exploitation and human trafficking in Quebec, would be arriving to safety at the airport here in Vancouver. My colleague and I ... Read more