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Click here to donate now to the Surrey Homelessness and Housing Endowment Fund, (listed here as ‘Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society’). The Fund is administered by the Vancity Community Foundation. Your tax receipt will be emailed to you immediately.

As part of Homelessness Action Week 2009, the Surrey Homelessness and Housing Task Force held a Surrey Connect Day. This connect event brought together a broad range of services – from foot baths and haircuts to food service and housing information – to one location. This allowed  people who are experiencing homelessness the opportunity to conveniently and directly access services. The day also provides an opportunity for volunteers to get involved and for agencies to collaborate.

The Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society is proud to support this important event through our Annual Grants program.

The Surrey Homelessness & Housing Society is pleased to announce the following organizations have received grants totaling $245,000 to support projects that will help to solve homelessness in Surrey.

The 2009 Annual Grant recipients are:

Kla How Eya
Project: ANYS Youth Transition Worker Project
To hire a full-time worker to target 16- to 18-year-old male youth who are unable to secure housing due to special needs, mental health barriers or addictions issues.  The overall goal of the project is to reduce length of bed nights in temporary shelter used by residents; reduce the number of youth turned away due to lack of beds; and increase the number of youth permanently housed.

Newton Advocacy Group Society
Project: Surrey Rent Bank
A pilot project that will provide loans for rent, security deposits and utilities arrears and will include financial literacy workshops.  The overall goal of the project is to prevent and reduce homelessness for low-income individuals and families in Surrey.

Pacific Community Resources Society
Project: Supported Transition and Roommate Program (STAR Program)
To provide start-up costs for a program that will provide a transitional semi-independent living environment for homeless, at-risk youth for up to one year.  The overall goal of the project is to provide for basic and immediate needs for safe, affordable housing with the goal of stabilizing their situation so that they are in a position to receive other needed supports to help them move toward housing security and self sufficiency; providing access to a range of programs and services specifically targeted to address the individual risk factors/circumstance that led to their homelessness.

Surrey Urban Mission
Project: Building Bridges for LIFE
A pilot project that will match individuals with established lives and a network system with people who have been homeless and have been or will be placed in permanent accommodation in Surrey.  The overall goal of the project is to assist newly housed homeless to regain freedom, equality and control in their lives and to become valued in relationships and opportunities of community life.

Surrey Homelessness and Housing Task Force
Project: Surrey Connect Days 2009-2010
As part of Homelessness Action Week 2009, Surrey Connect Day will bring together a broad range of services to one location where people who are experiencing homelessness can conveniently and directly access services.  All Surrey-based agencies will be invited to participate and volunteers will be engaged from business and faith communities.

YWCA
Project: YWCA Alder Gardens
To provide 28 units of safe, low-income housing for single mothers at risk of homelessness, as well as eight units of second-stage transitional housing for women and their children who have fled abusive relationships. The goals of this project are to increase affordable housing units in Surrey/Newton; enhance economic independence and reduce risk of future homelessness for women who are transitioning from abusive relationships.

The Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society was pleased to provide a grant of $1 million to Atira Women’s Resource Society for the construction of this important supportive housing project.

The Maxxine Wright Centre, is located at 13729 – 92 Ave. Once completed the Centre will provide 24 self-contained units of transitional housing and 12 short term stay units, both with integrated support services for pregnant women and their children who homeless or at risk of homelessness. The development also includes a pre- and post-natal clinic for high-risk pregnant women and a 59-space day-care through an agreement with the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD).