[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On a winter day in December last year, I drive out to Orca Place in Parksville to meet up with two participants of Project Rise. The new ICCS program aims to deliver pre-employment and employment skills training as well as work placement opportunities to people...
It is that time again! The Coldest Night of the Year will soon be here! What is the event: Coldest Night of the Year is a Canada wide walk and fundraiser, aimed to help people come together in community and think about issues of homelessness and precarious...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What are you thankful for? As autumn days move forward, we at ICCS begin to think about Thanksgiving, to take a moment to pause and remember the blessings of home, family and well-being – and to be grateful. Despite the challenges so many have faced during this...
21 June 2021 – Island Crisis Care Society is excited to announce an exciting new venture! In an effort to ensure the on-going responsiveness of its programming to clients and community, Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) has taken a bold and exciting step forward; moving into...
It may seem sometimes as though ICCS clients and staff and donors live quite different realities, with vastly different life experiences and backgrounds. Yet in fact, often when we learn each others’ stories, we find that we are much more connected than we might ever...
Construction will begin next week on a new 59-unit supportive housing building at 702 Nicol St. Nanaimo. The four-storey building design includes 52 studio suites for people experiencing homelessness in the community. In addition to the studio units, one floor will feature seven units with two...
In every life there is a turning point, and every person has impacts on others around them. “There’s always a ripple effect. If you’re doing good, you’ve got positive energy and you’re happy and you’ve got a great outlook on life, that ripple effect is...
As Thanksgiving nears, we have the chance to pause and remember the blessings of home, family and well-being – and to be grateful. It also gives us the chance to remember those in our community who perhaps do not have as much as we do...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The 2020 ICCS Annual General Meeting was help via Zoom last night and there was a great turnout of members and guests to enjoy hearing news on the financial health of the society, the return of Volunteers to ICCS and the Handmade for Hope...
