Housing

In Nanaimo…

Gateway House is a ten-bed, fully staffed and licensed residential facility. It offers a therapeutic, integrative and empowering life skills program that assists individuals to achieve their personal goals.
Bob Currie Place provides eight residents with an enhanced supported semi-independent living (SIL) program. Support workers and a case manager provide on-going support.
K.C. House provides five residents with a SIL program. The residents carry out daily living activities. A case manager and support workers provide support, assistance and encouragement to residents.
Boundary Crescent provides 41 furnished, self-contained units of supportive housing. Through a unique partnership with Nanaimo Affordable Housing and Haven Society, VIMHS provides staffed tenant support services for individuals experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness.
Rosehill Apartments (at 285 Rosehill Street in Nanaimo) offers 23 units of rental housing, with rates governed by BC Housing’s Community Housing Fund. All of the units are studio (i.e. “bachelor”) apartments; one is fully accessible for a tenant with mobility challenges. 4 of the units are designated as “deep subsidy”; 12 as “rent geared to income”; and 7 as “low market”.
1030 Old Victoria Road Housing Program provides 59 units of temporary housing at 1030 Old Victoria Road in Nanaimo. This modular housing community provides safe, stable accommodation with on-site support services for adults (19+) who are at risk of experiencing homelessness, including seniors and people with disabilities.
The site includes indoor and outdoor common areas, a central kitchen, shared washroom and laundry facilities, a reception area, office space for staff, fenced grounds, and on-site parking.
Residents apply to live in the program, sign program agreements, and pay rent.
Supports include 24/7 on-site staff, daily meals, life-skills and employment training, access to health supports, and connections to community and social services.
This BC Housing project is funded through the Province’s HEART & HEARTH program, which enables communities to build and offer housing quickly while longer-term permanent supportive housing continues to be developed.
Vancouver Island Mental Health Society is a proud member of the Nanaimo Homelessness Coalition.

In Campbell River…

The Rosebowl provides temporary (“bridge”) housing for 20 individuals from the local area who were previously homeless. Those living in Bridge housing await permanent supportive housing as it becomes available in the community.
Q’waxsem Place is a 50-unit supportive housing building that provides homes for people in the community experiencing or at risk of homelessness. On-site support services are provided to residents, including access to life-skills training, employment assistance and counselling, physical and mental health resources, and addiction recovery services.
Vancouver Island Mental Health Society is a proud member of the Campbell River and District Coalition to End Homelessness and a partner in the Urban Indigenous Housing and Wellness Coalition.