New Homeless Shelter For Vernon

A new homeless shelter will open in Vernon this week.

Our Place on 24th Avenue will provide 46 beds for men and women, along with a dining room, kitchen and washrooms, 24-hours a day, year round, starting Thursday.

It will be operated by Turning Points Collaborative Society, and will replace the Howard House shelter next door, which has reached the end of its usefulness.

Turning Points will also provide guests with meal services, along with access to life skills training, employment programs and counselling, as well as health and legal services through a community network.

“Our Place is an important first step in homelessness prevention,” says Randene Wejr, co-executive director, Turning Points Collaborative. “Thanks to our housing partners and community stakeholders for supporting this project to help people experiencing homelessness toward the first steps to recovery

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The most recent survey last fall indicated there was 161 homeless people in Vernon.

“Our Place provides a welcome, needed refuge from living on the street,” says Selina Robinson, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. “Our government recognizes that shelters are only an early part of the solution when people are homeless, and that is why we are also building supportive housing for the community that will open in the spring.”

My Place, a new permanent supportive housing project, is scheduled to open in spring 2019 at 3500 – 27th Ave.

That project will provide 52 new units of permanent supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness.