Pledge to End Homelessness

Wish

Surrey groups have an increased need for resources during the winter months. Can you help? Here is their 2011 COMMUNITY WISH LIST:

PACIFIC COMMUNITY RESOURCE SOCIETY (PCRS)
Contact: Sue Clough, Ph: 604-951-1300; Email: sclough@pcrs.ca

Pacific Community Resources’ SCOPE program helps many homeless individuals and families in the Surrey community.

• Clothing, including warm winter accessories
• Toiletries
• Art Supplies/art works
• Volunteering time for food events
• Non Perishable Food

ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY
Contact: Bonnie Moriarty, Ph: 604-520-1166; Email: info@elizabethfry.com; Web: www.elizabethfry.com

Elizabeth Fry Society runs shelters for single women and single mothers with children, pregnant women or mothers with newborns and women who are working through their addiction issues.

• Toiletries
• Blankets
• Non Perishable Food
• Bus Tickets
• Vounteering to collect and drop off items

NEWTON ADVOCACY GROUP SOCIETY (NAGS)
Contact: Soraya Van Buskirk,  Ph: 604 596 2311

Newton Advocacy Group Society provides one-to-one outreach advocacy to prevent eviction that helps clients to sustain their housing and direct assistance to individuals and families to get housed and stay housed.

• Bus tickets
• Grocery store vouchers
• Sponsorship for Christmas dinners
• Small gift items for Christmas dinner guests
• Volunteering for dinner preparation and service

NIGHTSHIFT MINISTRIES
Contact : Ph: 604-953-1114; Email: info@nightshiftministries.org

Nightshift Ministries hope to bring healing, wholeness and freedom to those caught in the addictive cycle of poverty and addictions, and to support those seeking a way to exit the streets. By offering a continuum of services, there is consistency where otherwise there would be none.

• Volunteering for office reception or clothing ministry
• Funding or means for dinner for the soup kitchen
• Non Perishable Food
• Toiletries
• Medical Supplies
• Clothing, especially jeans and knapsacks

FIRST UNITED CHURCH (WHITE ROCK) EXTREME WEATHER SHELTER
Contact: Dick Avison, Ph: 604-531-4850; Email: firstuc@telus.net ; Web: www.firstunitedwhiterock.com

First United Church has operated as the extreme weather shelter of Options/Hyland House.

• Donations to the cost of renovations to provide showers to shelter guests

OPTIONS – YOUTH SERVICES
Contact: Heather Lynch and Tiff Kopp, Ph: 604-218-0545  Email: tiff.kopp@options.bc.ca

The Supported Youth Independent Housing Program (SYIH) is a subsidized housing and support program designed for youth between the ages of 16 to 24 who do not have stabilized housing. This program teaches youth how to maintain stabilized housing while also receiving one-to-one life skills training and support.

• Cleaning supplies
• Moving supplies
• Kitchen supplies
• Bedding
• Bedroom furniture
• Toiletries and bathroom supplies
• Living room furniture and items
• Gift cards

SURREY URBAN MISSION
Contact: Ph: 604 581 – 5172  Email: sums@telus.net; Web www.surreyurbanmission.org

Surrey Urban Mission is a community center for people living in Surrey that helps people who are homeless, tenuously housed and or living in poverty, and offers Community meals, ESL programs, Legal Clinics, Children’s Day Camp, Teen Club, Medical & Dental services, Parenting classes, Food Security and Cooking classes and a Community Garden

• Toiletries
• Clothing
• Office supplies
• Bedding
• Children & adult books
• Bus Tickets
• Children’s items such as car seats, toys etc

*Please see our website for a more detailed wish list

SURREY HOMELESSNESS & HOUSING SOCIETY
Contact: Vera LeFranc, Ph: 604-340-2839 Email: vera_lefranc@vancity.com;
Web: www.surreyhomelessnessandhousing.org

The Surrey Housing and Homelessness Society makes a difference in the lives of people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Surrey by raising, managing and distributing funds to support programs, projects and initiatives and creating positive change through strategic leadership

Donate to the Surrey Homelessness and Housing Endowment Fund, administered by the Vancity Community Foundation through Canada Helps or send a cheque made out to:

Surrey Homelessness and Housing Endowment Fund
c/o Vancity Community Foundation
510-815 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC, V6C 1B4