Safe Homes. Real Support.
Brighter Futures.
Safe housing, substance use recovery and essential services for young people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. Our programs are youth-centered, focusing on dignity, belonging, and long-term success.
No matter what a young person is facing, we don’t give up on them.
Welcome to Threshold Housing
Home is the first step to healing. For more than 35 years, our homes have created the strong foundation youth need to thrive. With access to mental health supports, recovery services, Indigenous cultural programming, and life-skills development, we lay the groundwork for bright futures.
The Threshold Neighbourhood
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Youth ages 12-19 referred by MCFD share a home with 24/7 support on site.
A safe private bedroom & bathroom
High‑ratio staffing and individualized care
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Youth aged 15-21 build harm reduction skills via a nationally recognized recovery program in a shared home with 24/7 on site support.
Daily recovery groups, and life skills programming
Safe private bedroom & bathroom
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For youth ages 16-25 ready to build independence with guidance & support.
Two options ensure youth have the support they need:
Threshold House: 8 studio‑style private suites with shared communal spaces
Scattered Housing: Independent apartments throughout Greater Victoria
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INDIGENOUS WELLNESS ADVOCATES connect with Indigenous youth, supporting Status applications or other government designation, chatting over coffee, or accompanying a youth to a meeting or appointment.
Our Wraparound Supports
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Housing
Home is the first step to healing. Our 6 houses and 30+ apartments spread out across Greater Victoria provide a safe space for youth to call home. Then we create conditions for them to heal. With a bedrock of support they know they can trust, youth begin to start thinking about a future for themselves.
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Education
Our Education Fund supports youth in accessing post-secondary education and professional development opportunities.
Tuition for post-secondary programs, school supplies, fees for educational programs, professional development, and other expenses reducing barriers to education are eligible for reimbursement or scholarship funding.
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Health and Wellness
Our Wellness Fund supports our youth above and beyond the benefits they have access to. These include things like paramedical practitioners (chiropractors, physiotherapy, RMT), dental work, vision costs (eye tests, prescription glasses), as well as external counselling.
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Extracurriculars
Our Kia Closet, sponsored by Kia Victoria, created the Kia Closet to support ready to thrive gear (clothing, shoes, backpacks,) and a recreation and personal development fund that covers fees, equipment, or materials for extracurricular and recreational activities — from sports and art classes to music programs or youth groups — encouraging well-being, community engagement, helping youth explore their interests, build connections, and experience joy.
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Fun
Our Fun Fund offers flexible, year-round opportunities for our youth to experience fun activities and events out in the community in a group setting, because life is about more than surviving. This includes activities like laser tag, movies, canoeing, adventure park tickets, and visiting museums and aquariums.
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Life Skills
Our life skills programming provides youth with the tools to help them successfully maintain their home and relationships. This can include hygiene and self-care, household maintenance, cooking, budgeting, and maintaining positive neighbourly relations. This grows into building connections and friendships, productive employment, and healthy integration in a positive community of their own.
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Case Management
CASE MANAGERS are available 5 days a week, building protective factors and mitigating risk factors for youth through building trust, self-esteem, a sense of connection to the community, and by reducing social isolation.
Meet Our Youth
Last year, 69 youth called our Threshold Neighbourhood home. Through a personalized house, fun username, and Minecraft self-portrait, they shared the values, passions, and people that shape their lives.
News and Updates
Read the latest updates from Threshold Housing Society, including program highlights, community stories, and progress toward ending youth homelessness.
Threshold Housing Society acknowledges with respect the Lekwungen peoples on whose traditional territory we practice and reside as visitors on, and the Songhees, Xwsepsum, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continues to this day.
