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Community Builders provides supportive housing to residents with barriers in Lower Mainland Vancouver

10/22/2026

NBD, just some casual masterpieces from Naomi Place. 🎨

09/30/2026

Darlene was born in 1950 on Ahtahkakoop First Nation in Saskatchewan. Her mother was a residential school survivor. Her father had managed to hide from officials as a child, and when they came looking for Darlene years later, he hid her too.

“My dad saved me,” she says.

Darlene remembers happy days growing up on the reserve, surrounded by extended family. She also remembers government vehicles arriving to take her siblings away to residential school for the year, and how they cried as they were loaded up. Her siblings rarely spoke about what happened while they were away. Even as adults, they kept much of those experiences to themselves.

For Darlene, the “truth” in Truth and Reconciliation is self-explanatory. “Sharing the truth of residential schools is a big thing,” she says. “They wanted to pound the Indian out of us.”

Despite growing up among residential school survivors, Darlene says the subject was largely off limits. It wasn’t until university that she began learning more about the residential school system and the treaties, another part of her history that had never been taught to her.

But she also remembers the ways her culture continued quietly. As a child, Darlene once asked her grandmother if she could take one of the ribbons she saw tied to trees for her hair. Her grandmother told her they couldn’t touch them. The ribbons were markers showing people where secret ceremonies were being held.

Eventually, her grandmother took her to one. They followed the ribbons deep into the bush until they reached a clearing filled with people, with a lodge in the centre, drumming and dancers.

Darlene was taught that learning begins with Elders, and that it comes through watching and experience. The lesson was there, but you had to choose to come over, sit beside them and learn.

For Darlene, there is something in that lesson that applies to Truth and Reconciliation too.

The invitation to learn is there. It’s up to us to take the initiative, to sit, watch and listen.

Read the full story on our website.

09/01/2026

And our employment program works for Joel. It's gradual and low-barrier and comes with the supports he's needed to get back into the swing of working a few times a week.

Like a lot of participants in Restart, Joel's first experience with homelessness came after losing a job. Now that he's housed in Community Builders supportive housing, he's motivated to get back to work as a way of building independence and stability.

The goal of Restart is to meet our residents where they're at and help them reconnect to the workplace without judgment or stigma.

Way to go, Joel. Keep up the great work.

You can read Joel's story in the News section of our website. 🧐📖🛋

08/28/2026

Huge applause for our most recent Peer Recognition Award winners: Manav, Victoria, Mariam and Kathleen. 👏🥂🎆

We're celebrating their work ethic, personability and dedication to the Community Builders mission of creating safe, inclusive communities for the residents we serve.

Hats off to you. And keep up the great work.

08/14/2026

Thanks to Pêyâkoskan Wellness Collective for serving up these bannock-based tacos to supportive housing residents this week. Meals like this are a chance for folks to eat well while connecting with our Indigenous Wellness program, which offers one-to-one casework, group work and connections to culture and ceremony. 🌮🌮🌮

08/07/2026

A gorgeous sunset paddle in Burrard Inlet with our management/head office team. Thanks to for the experience, and to our crew for making it out. ☀🛶🌊

07/30/2026

Selfie alert from Aster Place, where residents teamed up with Wellness Worker Kat for some fun in the garden. 🥕☀👩‍🌾

07/22/2026

The resident garden at Alewem is in bloom. To experience the lush forest of flowers and vegetables is to feel, in an instant, calmer and more connected to nature.

Thank you to the residents (one in particular) at Alewem who make this magic happen each summer, and to for their generous donation of seeds.

07/20/2026

We were thrilled to welcome to one of our housing sites for the presentation of this humongous cheque. HHTH has been a champion and majority funder of our Counseling Program since 2024.

Receiving the cheque was one of the Registered Counselors we employ through the program to offer free, mobile counseling services and group workshops across Community Builders sites. Counseling can often go overlooked and underfunded as a wraparound support, and we're indebted to the hard-skating fundraisers from for providing this vital service to over 800 residents across our shelters and supportive housing sites. We couldn't do it without you!

07/01/2026

🍁🍁🍁 HBD Canada.

You're our favourite place to live and work, and for your 159th birthday, we'd like to offer the gift of commitment: to continuing to make Canada a more equitable country for everyone, a place where housing is a human right and non-profits like ours are supported in the work we do supporting the most vulnerable members of our country and community.

Here's to you. 🎂🍰🎁

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Vancouver, BC
V6E4A4

Telephone

+17783793940

Website

https://communitybuilders.ca/

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