Safe Houses & Shelters
Kiwanis Empowerment Youth Shelter (KEYS)
Phone: 250-386-8282
Address: 2117 Vancouver Street, Victoria BC, V8T 3Z9
The Kiwanis Emergency Youth Shelter, a 10 bed facility, providing services to youth between the ages of 13 and 18 who have no safe place to stay.
KEYS responds to a wide range of crisis, including parent/teen conflict, abuse issues and youth homelessness etc. Referrals can be made to the Shelter on a 24 hour basis by anyone in the community. They have a Youth & Family Support Worker on site who is able to provide support and counselling to youth and their families while they are in crisis. Admission is voluntary and consent of the legal guardian is needed in order for a youth to stay.
North Shore Youth Safe House
Phone: 1-877-789-6884
Web: www.hollyburn.ca/D309.cfm
The North Shore Youth Safe House is a place where youth, 13 to 18 years old, can come and find a comfortable and secure place to stay. The Safe House is staffed by caring and friendly youth workers 24 hours a day, 7-days a week. A stay at the Safe House can be up to 14 days with a possible extension, depending on the motivation of the youth to work towards his/her goals.
The North Shore Youth Safe House is operated by Hollyburn Family Services Society.
Marc’s Place
Phone: 604-261-7827 After 10pm, call After Hours: 604-660-4927
Located in south-west Vancouver. Shelter for youth, ages 13-15. Referral via social worker or MCFD After-Hours. Usually requires parent/guardian consent. Family setting, serving teens not in care who ordinarily live in Vancouver, Richmond or North Shore.
Aunt Leah’s Place
Phone: 604-525-1204
Address: 200 – 668 Carnarvon Street, New Westminster, BC V3M 5Y6
Web: www.auntleahs.org
Aunt Leah’s Place works with teen mothers and youth in foster care system to help them achieve a better future by providing guidance, supported housing, job training and coaching in essential skills.
Services include:
- Aunt Leah’s House: Supported housing for pregnant and parenting teen moms under 19
- Thresholds: Supported housing for new moms who are at risk for being homeless or losing their babies to the foster care system
- Support Link: A semi-independent living & life skills training program for youth, 15-18, who are presently in the MCFD care.
- A variety of life skills and job training employment programs, primarily catering to youth currently placed in foster care and participants (past and present) of Aunt Leah programs.
NOW Canada Society
Phone: 250-763-3876 (Kelowna)
Web: www.nowcanada.ca Email: info@nowcanada.ca
New Opportunities for Women (NOW) Canada provides programs, services and ongoing support to women who have been victims of sexual exploitation, have addictions and/or mental health challenges. The society also provides emergency shelter as well as transitional housing and affordable, independent living to women, with and without children, who have a proven financial need.
Services include:
- Alexandra Gardner Women and Children Safe Centre – A 20-bed homeless shelter for women & children.
- Residential Safe Home Program – Transitional living in homes for sexually exploited young women
- NOW Place Apartments - Long-term second stage accomodations to women (with or without children) who demonstrate proven financial need.
- ASK Learning Centre – A 3-month life skills and employability program to help female youth to reintegrate into the community.
- See their Services Page for more details
Walden Safe House
Phone: 604-877-1234
Web: www.fsgv.ca/programpages/youthservices/safehouse.html
Located in Vancouver. Safe House is a voluntary 7-day co-ed residential program for youth aged 16 – 18 years who are absent from home and street-involved or in danger of becoming so. 24-hour voluntary intake, provides 3 meals a day, hard drug free and goal-oriented service.
Operated by Family Services of Greater Vancouver.
Iron Horse Youth Safe House
Phone: 604-466-2665 Toll-free: 1-877-435-7233
Web: www.alouettehomestart.com/programs.html
Located in Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows . Iron Horse Youth Safe House in provides a temporary place to live for youth aged 13 to 18. 24-hour intake. Provides 3 meals, laundry, referrals. Structured service with a curfew and a no drug/alcohol policy.
Operated by Alouette Home Start Society.
All Nations Youth Safe House
Tel: 604-584-2625
Located in Surrey. Safe house with 6 beds and meals for at-risk, self-referred youth ages 16 to 18 of all nations. ANYSH is a 7-day emergency stay, with the possibility of extension based on weekly review. Each resident is assigned a key worker who assists the youth in developing an individualized service plan of daily goals to secure housing.
Staff assist youth to locate job opportunities, training, housing, and schooling. Youth are encouraged to be goal oriented, and are supported with individualized case planning when appropriate. Youth must be clean/sober 72 hours, with no drug use at the shelter.
Run by Kla-how-eya (Surrey Aboriginal Cultural Society).
Aboriginal Youth Safehouse (ASH)
Tel: 604-254-5147 Toll-free: 1-877-223-4321
Web: http://www.unya.bc.ca/programs/live-in-programs/aboriginal-youth-safehouse
E-mail: safehouse@unya.bc.ca
Located in Vancouver, for youth aged 16-18, self-referred and voluntary. Must be 72 hours clean/sober, no alcohol/drugs. Provides 3 meals a day. You must also not have stayed at either Vancouver safehouse in the past 7 days.
Run by Urban Native Youth Association. (link)
Covenant House Vancouver
Tel: 604-685-7474 Toll-free: 1-877-685-7474
Address: 575 Drake St, Vancouver BC
Web: www.covenanthousebc.org Email: info@covenanthousebc.org
Covenant House Vancouver helps homeless, runaway and at-risk young people between the ages of 16 and 22 for short-term residential care through their crisis shelter and up to two years in their transitional living program.
Services offered include:
- 22 bed 24-hour crisis shelter for youth aged 16-22, accessed on first-come, first-served basis. While in the shelter, youth have access to counselling, addictions management program and life skills program, referrals to other agencies, support in getting income assistance, employment and housing, recreational outings, help with repatriation or family reunification, 3 meals/day and laundry
- Rights of Passage program, a supported, transitional living program for young people aged 18-23 progressing from an “at risk” street-involved lifestyle to stabilized independent living. Includes long term (up to 2 years) residential component as well as individualized case planning (includes educational, vocational and after care support services).
- Community Support Services for youth 13-24, with a Street Outreach Team and a Drop-In. Provides access to youth/outreach worker, addictions counselling, referrals to other social service agencies, help getting ID, employment, housing and financial asssistance, snacks, hot meal on Monday afternoons, and more.
