Social & Community Services Organizations in Vancouver

Our mission is to connect with and inspire seniors through the power of live music. This helps strengthen their sense of belonging in the communities where they live.

We are serving senior homes, long-term care, and assisted living facilities across Metro Vancouver area.

Music Outreach Society is a youth non-profit organization that organizes high school student to perform in music concerts in seniors home, hospitals, shelters and other places in their community to give back to their communities with their talents for music. On a completely volunteer basis, young musicians are given the chance to share their passion for music in their community at a number of seniors’ homes including Louis Brier Home and Hospital, Southview Terrace, BC Children’s hospital – Sunny Hill and the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. Performances range from pianists, singing & guitar. We do both performance and interactive singalongs.
Our Goals
To bring the community together through the act of sharing music with others. As we all know, music is a language that everybody understands! MOS is also a place for musicians to network with each other and to build long lasting connections as well as friendships.
To raise money to help support music therapy and children who are unable to afford instruments/lessons.
To provide MOS performers and members with performing opportunities as well as the chance to build up confidence in their music performance.

We support people with intellectual disabilities by providing the care they need to feel safe and enjoy physical and emotional wellbeing throughout their lives. We seek to discover and honour their interests, talents, skills and aspirations so they can thrive and be included as genuine members of their local community and to live the life they choose.

North Shore Volunteers for Seniors is a non-profit Society, founded in 1961, dedicated to promoting independence and well-being of seniors. We offer diverse and accessible programs to seniors at our Centre located in West Vancouver. We match qualified volunteers with seniors living independently in their homes or care facilities.

We’re giving every senior in long-term care in the province the chance to have a visitor and a voice. Volunteer to brighten their days, listen to their stories, and give back to your community. You will be trained to conduct an in-person, standardized interview with the residents about their quality of life. Questions cover topics including food and meals, privacy, safety, staff responsiveness, visits with family and friends, activities, and more. This is a chance to see inside long-term care, brighten the lives of your local seniors, and know that you’ve been part of improving the future of long-term care in BC. Volunteers should apply online at: https://surveybcseniors.org/volunteer/ We ask for a minimum commitment of 40 hours over the course of 6-8 weeks, inclusive of training.

OpenTable centers on a gathering at Cityview Church every Thursday at noon.

OpenTable provides a safe place to enjoy a warm, nourishing meal and provides a community that offers hope and friendship for all, including those struggling with housing, food security, finances, addiction, or mental/physical health challenges.

The gathering also includes a short message, bible reading, and prayer.

Parkgate Community Services Society (PCSS) is a registered not-for-profit charitable society that has been in operation since 1983. PCSS provides community based programs and services out of Parkgate Community Centre, the Seymour Youth Centre, and other satellite locations. PCSS is responsible for delivering community programs and services for children, youth, families and seniors through the Community Centre.

Parkinson Society British Columbia is the voice of British Columbians living with Parkinson's. Our purpose is to ease the burden and find a cure for Parkinson's disease through advocacy, education, research and support services.

Paul’s Club is a social and recreational day program for men and women living with Young Onset Dementia.

We provide a physically and emotionally safe environment, with activities geared towards the specific needs of those experiencing symptoms of Young Onset Dementia. Paul's Club opened in 2012 and is the first and only program of its kind in Vancouver.

The Club has a warm, welcoming atmosphere and is designed to be fun!

Paul's Club is open from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 50 weeks of the year, and is led by a Program Director, Chelsea Grills, who has a degree in Therapeutic Recreation from Douglas College. A maximum of 15 Members attend the Club each day.

Paul's Club provides at least six hours a day of essential respite for caregivers.

Refreshments, snacks, and a daily choice of hot lunch are part of the program. Paul's Club has a warm, bright, and welcoming atmosphere. There is a large adjoining patio and a well equipped gym which we can enjoy on a daily basis.

The Club is located at The Hampton Inn & Suites on the corner of Robson and Beatty in Vancouver. You can take advantage of the convenient drop off area, which can be accessed from Beatty Street.

 

Plan Institute is a national non-profit and social enterprise based in Vancouver, B.C., that supports people with disabilities and their families. We provide educational material and resources, collaborate on community-based projects, and engage with a wide array of partners to host innovative initiatives for change and policy reform.

Plan Institute’s mission is to empower people with disabilities to lead a good life.

POSITIVE LIVING BC is dedicated to empowering persons living with HIV/AIDS through mutual support and collective action. We are a Registered Non-profit Society (#11928-2085) and an established leader in the HIV/AIDS movement. Uniquely among major agencies in Canada, the POSITIVE LIVING BC Board of Directors is composed entirely of HIV-positive members.

With a membership of more than 5,400 HIV-positive members and a proud history spanning three decades, we are Western Canada's largest AIDS service organization and an established leader in the HIV/AIDS movement.

We rely on funding, donations from the wider community in order to provide our range of services and events, and to produce a variety of resources and publications.

ProChoices is a by-donation Narrative Therapy clinic that runs on a feminist, social-profit model, located in unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Tsleil-Waututh, and Skwxwú7mesh Territory, Vancouver B.C.

ProChoices has grown out of the needs expressed by our communities. With their ongoing support, our clinic has survived its first year sponsored entirely by client donations, member contributions, our certificate program proceeds, the support of Hilda Nanning Counselling, and the passionate work of our team of therapists.

Fuelled by our feminisms, ProChoices offers accessible, quality therapy to individuals and communities of diverse genders, sexual orientations, socioeconomic backgrounds, and life experiences. We understand affordable therapy to be social justice activism as well as a response to the individualist, euro-centric/hegemonic, capitalist patriarchy we live in.

ProChoices credits the clients as the experts of their own experience and as the authority on what constitutes meaningful change in their lives. We do not prescribe or pathologize, and instead invite a co-research experience for our clients. This co-research process opens up alternative ways of experiencing, responding, and resolving the challenges and problems that might stand in the way of our clients’ well-being.