Category: Stories

Community Partnership: Fighting for Food Security

Vancouver Food Runners (VFR) launched in 2020 in response to seeing article after article about the rapidly rising rates of food insecurity during the pandemic....

There’s More to Kate’s Story

Enda, Program Coordinator for the Street Youth Job Action (SYJA) program at Directions, shares with us a story about Kate. Kate is a youth who came to SYJA tryi...

There’s More to Our 2SLGBTQIA+ Program’s Story

This program is about far more than simply hanging out.

There’s More to Harp’s Story

Running the Food Program at Directions is Harp's dream job, but for them it's about so much more than the food.

Entry Point Programs Open Doors

Entry Point Programs at Directions, like our Food Program and 2SLGBTQIA+ Program, get youth in the doors and give us a chance to build rapport. Where we go from...

There’s More to Em’s Story

FSGV employee, Em, reflects on his experience as a homeless youth and how this experience shaped him.

There’s More to Jessica’s Story

For most of the last nine years, I was a reclusive shut-in. Now, as I write this, I'm planning my next trip to Mexico and two months ago I went to Spain with my...

Pride at Directions Youth Services

Since Directions began, there have always been 2SLGBTQIA+ youth coming, and welcome, here. At the beginning of 2023, we were able to launch the Directions 2SLGB...

The Cutest Graduation: Celebrating Another Year of COLTS

In June, Family Services of Greater Vancouver hosted our annual graduation ceremony for youth and their children in our COLTS program.

There’s More to Mae’s Story

FSGV employee, Mae, reflects on how accessing a program like the Sexual Abuse Intervention Program as a child might have impacted her life - and how the work sh...

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