The Association of RV dealers (RVDA) of Canada is a national federation of provincial and regional RVDA associations and their members, made up of volunteers who have come together to form a professional association of all businesses in the 'recreational vehicle industry.
The Cowichan Neighbourhood House Association (CNHA) is made up of 100 members, & runs almost entirely on volunteer labour. We are both a Community Resource Centre and a Youth Centre. In essence, though, the CNHA is an association of 'neighbours helping neighbours' - financed by donations, and run on volunteer spirit.In 1997, the Cowichan Neighbourhood House moved into the Old Chemainus Fire Hall, located at 9796 Willow Street in Chemainus, BC, across from Water Wheel Park, and a few doors down from the Seniors' Centre & the Harvest House Food Bank (see transit schedule). It is from the Fire Hall that we run our Community Resource Centre and Youth Activities.
The people that run Cowichan Neighbour house reach out to help all those that come in for help> I was evicted from my home when my roomate died and his family that he hadnt had any contact for 20 years evicted me with 2 hours from meeting them>They found a room in Chemainus I was devastated >I came to harvest house I was seriously thinking of suiside.I am in my 60s and really knew no one in this little town. They helped me heal and still do
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The Hiiye'yu Lelum (House of Friendship) Society provides health, social, recreational and cultural services to promote individual, family and community self-reliance. These services address the needs and aspirations of aboriginal people and focus on well-being within a cross-cultural context. To provide a cultural bridge between the Aboriginal and non-aboriginal cultures in the Cowichan Valley. To provide a central facility where counselling, information and referral services are provided and where meetings, education and recreation activities may take place. To provide opportunities for the development of Aboriginal leadership in the community. To promote the well-being of Aboriginal people through program development.
Valley Integration to Active Living Society (V.I.T.A.L. Society) is a not-for-profit organization based on a model designed between 1989 and 1991. This model provided support to dual-diagnosis clients with challenging behaviors who had experienced difficulty living in their communities. Some of our residents experienced difficulty with legal/correctional systems. Their dual-diagnosis resulted in attempted treatment in a variety of settings that had produced little effect. Service providers with conventional service models were unwilling to continue to support them, resulting in residents spending most of their time in institutions such as Glendale Lodge and Riverview Hospital. With the closure of institutions, there was a need for alternate care models to provide a stable community-placement for these individuals. The model was designed on the aspects of institutional care that was most effective, modifying it to work in a community setting.The Ministry of Social Services and Housing, with some hesitation, accepted the idea of trying the model on an experimental basis.