By Deb Crosby, ICCS Volunteer Writer I admire people with certain qualities; honesty, kindness, compassion, generosity, strength, intelligence, perseverance, resilience, resourcefulness and a zest for life and learning. Recently, I was privileged to interview a young woman named Bev, who embodied them all! Despite a busy schedule,...
Andrew, our volunteer of the month, has been helping out with grocery deliveries to Crescent House, since fall last year. As retired Director of Planning for the City of Nanaimo he saw the issues around homelessness from a professional perspective. Now that Covid has ended,...
Meet Heather, our Island Crisis Care Society “Volunteer of the Month.” Heather grew up in the Edson and Hinton areas of Alberta. The daughter of two teachers who were “amateur naturalists,” she spent much of her childhood outdoors. Her parents’ Christian faith was also modeled...
By Sheila Backman, ICCS Volunteer Writer Sometimes there is a stereotype about the people who populate ICCS programs. One of the realities we see every day, though, is that stereotypes are rarely realities. Each of the clients in our programs is a unique individual, with their...
The event: Coldest Night of the Year 2023 The Aim: To raise awareness and commitment to programming for people who have experienced homelessness and/or precarious housing in Nanaimo When is it? Saturday February 25th, 2023 Where will it start? Maffeo Sutton Park in Nanaimo and Parksville Community Park...
Fall is here and the weather has turned cold. Our Project Rise participants are enjoying their last week of workshops and trainings before they are moving on to the next step in the program, their work placements. I sit down with three of the participants...
The New Samaritan Place will offer 51 supportive housing units as well as 14 shorter term “bridge to housing” beds for women and 1 unit for a family. Building on the legacy of ICCS’s flagship program, Samaritan House, this new program will offer even more...