Find support to help meet your basic needs and improve your well-being. This page connects you with local services and programs offering housing assistance, harm reduction resources, and access to nutritious food, so you can get the help you need when you need it.
Food security supports
The Mustard Seed Food Bank
Situated in Victoria’s downtown core, this food bank provides food, beverages, and hygiene products to families and individuals. Visit Mustard Seed Food Bank’s website.
Living Edge
Living Edge provides groceries and food in the Greater Victoria Area. Visit Living Edge’s website.
Shelters and housing
211 British Columbia
The Shelter List assists people who are affected by homelessness in Greater Victoria, including information on a variety of programs and services. Visit 211’s Shelter List.
Kiwanis Emergency Youth Shelter
A home environment that provides emergency housing for youth (ages 13 to 18) of all genders who are homeless and/or have no safe housing alternatives. Visit Kiwanis Emergency Youth Shelter’s website.
Our Place
Our Place Society has grown from a unique inner-city community center to multiple locations serving Greater Victoria’s most vulnerable, including people struggling with homelessness, mental health challenges, substance use issues, the working poor, and impoverished elderly. Visit Our Place’s website.
Cool Aid
Cool Aid offers emergency shelter, permanent housing, primary health care, and nutritious meals. Visit Cool Aid.
Peers Victoria Resources Society
Peers provides harm reduction, housing support, education, violence prevention, and advocacy for current and former sex workers, people who use substances, Indigenous-street family, and their connected communities in Greater Victoria. Visit Peers Victoria Resources Society.
Harm reduction
Find harm reduction resources drug checking services, information on opioid agonist treatment, and safe needle disposals. For more information on harm reduction services including supplies, Take Home Naloxone, and OPS locations, please visit towardtheheart.com.
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