Program

Community Garden & Kitchens

Community Garden

Our community garden is located in Strathcona at Rice Block Housing for Women and is a place where women can come together to share, learn and connect with each other and the community. It will provide Rice Block residents, as well as the local community, with the opportunity to grow food for themselves and for the on-site community meal program. It is also planned to include herbs, flowers, medicinal plants and native plant species in the garden.

Sisterspace

Sisterspace is open 7 days a week from 10pm - 8am. We offer a safe, staffed space for women in the community to access food, harm reduction supplies, washrooms, computer/telephone and have information about community resources (i.e. bad date reports).

Maxxine Wright Early Care & Learning Centre

Maxxine Wright Early Care & Learning Centre has it's own website! Click here to visit

 

Senior Women's Outreach

For women age 55 plus unable to or not ready to access a transition house who have or are still experiencing abuse by a family member, intimate partner or someone in a position of power such as a landlord or caregiver.

We provide emotional and practical support to women 55 plus who have/are experiencing abuse. If you need help, call

16 Step Groups

 

The Family Project: Children Who Witness Abuse & Rediscover Parenting

Children Who Witness Abuse (CWWA) Support Program Ten-week closed groups for children who have witnessed abuse. Topics covered include:

Stopping the Violence

Counselling for Women in the Downtown Eastside

Individual and group support and information for women who have been impacted by emotional abuse and/or violence. Services are provided free of charge from a strengths-based, feminist, anti-oppression, and harm reduction perspective. Appointment or drop-in, trans-inclusive.

The counsellor is available by appointment or drop-in Monday to Thursday and 9:00 am to 1:00 pm on Friday.

Email: stv [at] atira.bc.ca
Phone: 604-331-1407 (x.106)
Location: 101 East Cordova Street, Vancouver

Maxxine Wright Community Health Centre

Maxxine Wright Place Project for High Risk Pregnant and Early Parenting Women

Who do we support? 

The Maxxine Wright Community Health Centre supports women who are pregnant or who have very young children at the time of intake who are also impacted by substance use and/ or violence and abuse.  Women do not need to have their children in their care to receive support provided there is an ongoing relationship with the child. 

Legal Advocate

Amber Prince
Amber

Amber has been the legal advocate at Atira since June 2006, although she began at Atira as a summer student in the legal advocacy program in 2005. Before, joining Atira, she obtained a law degree from University of British Columbia and a Master’s in law at the University of Victoria.

Amber provides free legal advocacy services to women in the Downtown Eastside. Her program exists because of generous funding from the Law Foundation of BC. Amber provides information, support and assistance in the following areas of law: 

Enterprising Women Making Art

Check out our EWMA online store: Shop EWMA Store

EWMA was launched in 2003 as a development initiative of Atira Women's Resource Society. It has focused on supporting women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to work together to develop an alternative form of business or employment that is grounded in their needs and realities.

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