We asked a few shelter guests about PHS's Vancouver Food Program. Learn how you can help: bit.ly/4fQNwYQ

🏃‍♀️💙 Our youngest fundraiser spent the weekend helping raise donations for the PHS Run Team! We're working toward a $30K fundraising goal to build a new kitchen for PHS's Vancouver Food Program, which serves 3,900+ people daily. Learn how you can get involved: bit.ly/3TR6BS6

The PHS Run Team is raising $30,000 through the 2026 Under Armour Eastside 10K to help expand the PHS Vancouver Food Program. So far we've raised $6,749. Every donation helps support 3,900+ meals served daily to people facing homelessness and poverty. bit.ly/4x8JxfR

Members are invited to our Annual General Meeting! Join us as we reflect on the past year, celebrate our achievements, and look ahead to the future of our organization. Learn more at: bit.ly/3T2jBnu

Help nourish Vancouver’s vulnerable seniors 💛 PHS provides daily meals for people 45+ facing physical and mental health challenges linked to advanced age-related decline. Help us unlock up to $500K in matching funds from AI Roadburg Foundation. Join or donate: bit.ly/4ezx11m

Thank you, United Way BC for your support through the #PeriodPromise campaign. 💜 We're grateful to be one of 200 organizations receiving menstrual hygiene products that will help support women in our community with dignity and care.

Run. Walk. Fundraise. Donate. However you participate, you’re helping PHS provide 3,900+ meals daily. Support food security by joining Team PHS or donating to our PHS Run Team. bit.ly/4cTvFyU

PHS’s Molson Overdose Prevention Site in the DTES isn’t just a service—it’s a lifeline. Read the Georgia Straight to learn more: bit.ly/4e44zEF (Press Reader required to access)

Food Bank BC Hunger Report says 1.3M people in B.C. experienced food insecurity in 2024. PHS delivers 3,900+ meals daily to support our community. Join us in raising $30,000 to expand our Vancouver Food Program. Join Team PHS at the Eastside 10K or donate to our PHS Run Team bit.ly/4cTvFyU

Congratulations to Varun Banthia, Board Chair of PHS Community Services, on receiving a 2026 BC Achievement Community Award 🎉 A well-earned recognition of leadership and community impact across BC. 👏💙 bit.ly/49jVHcl

Run/walk for food security 💛 Join Team PHS at the Under Armour Eastside 10K Sept 27, 2026. Code 26PHS = 10% off (not donated to PHS). Donate/support Team PHS here: bit.ly/4cTvFyU

We’re raising $30,000 for PHS’s Vancouver Food Program—delivering 3,900+ meals/day (2,000+ hot meals). Help us renovate + expand capacity. Join Team PHS for the Under Armour Eastside 10K Sept 27, 2026 or donate to Team PHS. bit.ly/4cTvFyU

Thank you #VancouverWarriors for the seats. Our employees enjoyed the match last Friday afternoon. The VW focus on community truly shines through —whether it’s youth programs, charitable outreach, or giving back across the Lower Mainland. Thanks for showing how sport can bring people together.

A big thank‑you to Quest Non-Profit Grocery Markets for donating hundreds of foot warmers to PHS! 🧦🔥 Your generosity helps us support our shelter guests and neighbours in the DTES during the coldest days. We’re so grateful for this partnership — thank you, Quest! www.questoutreach.org

Join the 2026 Under Armour Eastside 10K to raise funds for essential daily meals that support wellness in people with mental illness and substance use disorders. If running isn’t your thing, please support the PHS Team with a donation. bit.ly/4bNIKrP

Ten years. A decade-long emergency with no end in sight. 18,000+ lives lost to B.C.’s toxic drug supply. Today, we remember every one of them. Photo: Times Colonist April 13, 2026

Treat bags were shared with PHS’s supportive housing residents in Vancouver over the weekend. 💙 Thank you Community Apothecary for your in-kind donations over the holidays. #ThankyouCommunityApothecary www.communityapothecary.ca

This Season help us spread hope. 🐣 Your donation supports life-changing services for extremely vulnerable community members experiencing homelessness, poverty, or complex health challenges. 💛 Please donate to PHS today: tinyurl.com/36j7jkn2 #EasterGiving #PassoverGiving #PHSSupport

"Ensuring that all people who inject drugs have access to sterile equipment for every injection is a proven, life-saving harm reduction strategy, yet it remains critically underimplemented globally" - medical journal The Lancet. Read it: tinyurl.com/2hhbc285

It's a myth that supervised consumption sites attract crime. They are frontline medical units that improve neighbourhood public health. Researchers at McGill University researchers crunched the crime data around Toronto site that were closed supposedly for neighbourhood safety: tinyurl.com/2uf4zumj

"Spending doesn’t match the scope of the crisis, and long-term social planning is nonexistent" - Jody Paterson, examining the failed social policy behind the homelessness crisis. Meet some of the people abandoned to street life on Victoria's Pandora Avenue: tinyurl.com/bdea9s2y

You don't often get chances to hear an insider account of how authorities react to emergencies - so check out Lisa Lapointe's online discussion of the toxic drug crisis. She's “forever altered” by the emergency. It's at 11 am on Wednesday, Jan. 14. Info: tinyurl.com/bdf89sdy

The team from Softchoice Vancouver collected and packaged toiletries and little luxuries to create 240 travel hygiene kits for our shelter guests. They joined forces with Kits For A Cause to source and bag the items at a teambuilding kit-packing event. Thank you for your generosity and support.

Special thanks to the Ribbon Community for providing Christmas gift bags of food necessities and luxuries to some PHS residents. Formerly known as AIDS Vancouver, Ribbon is Canada's original AIDS service organization, helping people overcome the impacts of HIV and HIV stigma.

It means a lot when people reach out this time of year to offer thoughtful and practical gifts to the community we serve. Two students at Stratford Hall School, Ella and Stephanie, arranged care packages for people staying at our shelters over Christmas. (Stephanie not photographed.)

Staff at three veterinary clinics collected treats and toys for PHS residents and shelter guests pets. Donations were arranged through the Hearts to Paws initiative of Merck Animal Health Canada, which supports shelters and outreach programs across Canada. I borrowed HQ regular Ringo for the pic.

Stylists from a White Rock's Sin 7 Salon called round to give free haircuts to seniors living with PHS. It was a beautiful event. The Sin 7 Salon team were friendly and treated everyone with respect - chatting and sharing holiday treats. It was another day at the salon, basically.

These cheerful gift packs containing necessities and luxuries will be given to PHS shelter guests on Christmas Day, courtesy of Everybody Deserves A Smile. Active in schools throughout the area, the group brings together students, educators, artists & business leaders to support people in crisis.

Big thanks to The Right Shoe for their spectacular shoe drive, collecting 750 pairs of new and gently used shoes for the community we serve. The team reached out to partners On Running Shoes, and two local gyms: the Firm Athletic and Rep 1, who joined forces to gather the donated shoes.

Kindness always matters. We thank our good friends at Canada Running Series for thinking about the community we serve. They are the people who organize the Under Armour Eastside 10K which hosts PHS runners every year, so they got to know us - and asked if they could do something to help out.