Peer Support Program - For People Experiencing Homelessness, Mental illness, and Substance use
Addictions / Substance Use, Mental Health - Adult, and Mental Health - Child & Youth
Provided by RainCity Housing and Support Society
The program connects people experiencing homelessness, substance use, or mental illness with peer specialists who share similar lived experiences. Through mutual support, shared learning, and advocacy, peer specialists help people accessing RainCity services work toward recovery and stability.
Peer Specialists are people with lived experience of homelessness, substance use, or mental illness who offer mutual support, learning, and advocacy for people accessing RainCity services.
The program includes unionized peer specialist positions on outreach and supportive housing teams, honorarium peer work for program participants, and a dedicated Peer Services Manager. Services are delivered in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and across the Vancouver Coastal Health region.
Specific services include:
- 1:1 peer support (in-person)
- Peer Witnessing Services
- Recovery groups
- Reference groups
- Leadership and professional development for Peer Specialists
604-215-3043
Website: https://www.raincityhousing.org...
616 Powell Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6A 1H4
Associated Programs/Services
Also offered by RainCity Housing and Support Society:
Availability
Service area: Vancouver Coastal Health Area + show cities
Service Types Provided
Addictions / Substance Use
Mental Health - Adult
Mental Health - Child & Youth
Ways to Access
- Provided 1:1 in-person
- Provided at a single location
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