RainCity Housing and Support Society

Website: raincityhousing.org
Phone: 604-662-7023
Address: 616 Powell St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1H

The expansion of the RainCity Mobile Peer Team added a registered social worker to provide group and individual counselling services in the Maple Ridge area. This addition strengthens the role and capacity of peers to deliver peer counselling services and builds access to sustainable community-based counselling opportunities. This program provides additional training and supervision for peers, which increases the number of qualified team members providing counselling services. This program supports people who do not usually engage in mainstream services to be connected with appropriate resources early and thereby increase the number of people served and reduce wait lists. The importance of outreach and flexibility within this role has fostered success with hard to reach clients. We are also offering groups with an Elder to increase culturally safe programing within the Maple Ridge area.