Shauna Janz is the executive director of Friends of Living and Learning Through Loss Society
Many of our youth come to THS having experienced a variety of types of loss. Part of the process of moving to self-reliance and self-worth on a practical level involves dealing with these personal issues. Working with Learning Through Loss, our youth workers are able to provide transitioning youth with the tools, mentorship, and community they need to process their grief.
Recently the Friends of Living and Learning Through Loss Society has received $3,300 in funding from the Victoria Foundation which will go towards community programs and youth education.
We at Threshold Housing Society would like to extend our utmost gratitude and appreciation for the tremendous support we have received from the Victoria community this holiday season.
The amazing team at Home Depot bringing Christmas lights and cheer to the staff and youth of Threshold.
Our fantastic volunteers, Monica Dhawan and Tobias MacIssac who worked tirelessly getting donations from the community to purchase specialized Christmas gifts for all the youth in our program.
And to Linda Foley and the women of the PEO Sisterhood, who made heartfelt gift bags for each of the young women in our program. Each bag was filled with amazing goodies and products that the girls were ecstatic about. The girls at Holly House also extend their gratitude to the Girl Guides who dropped off four beautiful gift baskets for them.
Many thanks to Cst. Sue Hamilton and Cst. Chris Gilbert of the Victoria Police Department for helping to organize gift baskets for all the young men in Threshold. And to the amazing students from Victoria’s high schools who contributed to this project. Your efforts are truly appreciated.
Want to get rid of stacked up bottles from the holiday season?
Want to do something good for your community this new year?
Come to the Threshold Bottle Drive, Saturday, January 2nd, and bring your refundable recyclings.
You can donate them to the Threshold Bottle Drive to help support youth who are at risk of becoming homeless in your community!
Threshold Bottle Drive Date: Saturday, January 2nd, 2016 Time: 9am~11am Location: St. Matthias Church Parking Lot (600 Richmond Ave @ Richardson)
Initiated in Kamloops, BC, a national plan to end youth homelessness has evolved over the last several years. It is called “A Way Home” and it is dedicated to preventing, reducing and ending youth homelessness in Canada.
A Way Home is not just another autonomous national organization competing for resources and public attention. Rather, it is an outcome of active collaboration between a range of national partners, all of whom bring expertise, resources, national profile and members to support the work of A Way Home. Guided by a small and focused coalition secretariat, coalition partners work together to support communities in planning and implementing solutions, engage governments and the general public, all with the ultimate goal of supporting A Way Home’s vision of preventing, reducing and ending youth homelessness in Canada.
A Way Home works by inspiring and enabling communities and all levels of government through a Collective Impact framework to organize, plan and implement strategies to address youth homelessness in a coordinated, measurable and impactful way. By strengthening families and building the assets and resilience of youth, we can help young people avoid homelessness and make a healthy transition to adulthood.
The work of A Way Home is achieved by building on the existing strengths of partners, community engagement and innovation, and a strong commitment to ending youth homelessness that is emerging across the country. The Coalition believes that by aligning the strategies and resources of leading stakeholders seeking to address homelessness in Canada, it can prevent, reduce and end youth homelessness.
Every night, thousands of Canadian teens and youth have nowhere but the street to sleep. Now a coalition of groups thinks it has the beginnings of a national solution. Photo by knightbefore_99 in Your BC: The Tyee’s Photo Pool.
