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...
It is a question that has been at the forefront for Sue Fichtler, member of the support team at Orca Place Supportive Housing program throughout the past few months after the untimely loss of her son Evan. It is the kind of thing that can break...
Our current Project Rise cohort participants have all finished the in-class training portion of the program and are well into their work placements. It has been an amazing experience for our participants so far and three of them were happy to share some of their...
By Deb Crosby, ICCS Volunteer Writer Our volunteer of the month, Jeremy arrived in Nanaimo five years ago and has served on the ICCS Board of Directors for about a year. He grew up in a minister’s home and with his vocation in ministry these past...
Our volunteers of the month, Shae and Tianna, are both kinesiology students in their last year at VIU. They are busy girls. Besides being full time students, they also run their own fitness company, Vera Fitness in Parksville. Shae also works at a Physiotherapy clinic...
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,...
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...