Community Hubs & Collaboratives
Kits House is proud to be part of 3 hubs and 1 collective. Click on the corresponding tabs below to learn more about each
About
The Westside Seniors Hub strives to build a more responsive and resilient community for seniors residing on Vancouver’s Westside through the power of collective action.
Mission
- To identify and promote awareness of Westside seniors’ issues and priorities
- To improve programs and services for seniors on the Westside through the enhanced collaboration of its Partner Organizations and the community at large:
- To encourage seniors to become more engaged in their community
Members
- A.K.A Friendship Centre, Adult Day Program
- Dunbar Residents Association
- Family Caregivers of BC
- Healthy Living Program
- Jewish Family Service Agency
- Kerrisdale/Marpole Community Pastoral Resource Centre
- Kerrisdale Seniors Centre
- Kitsilano Community Centre
- Kitsilano Neighbourhood House
- Seniors Working Group of Westside Churches
- South Granville Seniors Centre
- St Faiths Anglican Church
- Vancouver Public Library – Dunbar Branch
- Vancouver Public Library – Kerrisdale Branch
- Vancouver Public Library – Kitsilano Branch
- Vancouver Public Library – West Point Grey Branch
- West Point Grey Community Centre
Contact
westsideseniorshub@gmail.com
About
The Westside Childhood Hub is a network of early learning, family resource and child care programs. The members of the Hub are group daycares, preschools, family daycare, family places and Kits Neighbourhood House.
Mission
To provide resources, education and support to service providers of early and middle years, and families with children 0-12 years on the Westside of Vancouver by
- identifying and responding to emerging needs and service gaps for children, families and service providers on the Westside through networking, collaboration, access to resources and education
- providing a collective voice on behalf of children, families and service providers on the Westside to funders, policy makers and key stakeholders
Members
Contact
vancouverwestsidehub@gmail.com
History
Food security on the Westside kept arising as an important issue at our monthly service providers meetings. In the spring of 2006, members of that group began to meet for the sole purpose of exploring food security on the west side. It soon became apparent that service providers and community members were keenly interested in networking and collaborating on this issue, hence the development of the Westside Food Collaborative.
About
Located on traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish) Nations, and operating at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House, Westside Food Collaborative (WFC) is a neighbourhood food network of community members and service providers working towards just and sustainable food system on Vancouver’s Westside. WFC is a member of Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks
Vision
Our vision is a just and sustainable food system, where everyone on the Westside of Vancouver has secure access to adequate amounts of safe, nutritious, culturally appropriate food, produced in an environmentally sustainable way and provided in a manner that promotes human dignity.
Mission
WFC will coordinate efforts, build collective capacity and form a unified voice of community service organizations providing food supports to the Westside residents. Through coordinated collective impact efforts, we will work to improve availability and access to adequate food resources for the most vulnerable community members. Together, we will work towards addressing the underlying factors leading to food insecurity, to advance the vision for a just and sustainable food system for all.
Resources
- Dunbar, Kitsilano & Point Grey Resource Guide
- Westside Food Asset and Need Scan Report 2021
- Free and Low-Cost Food Resources Guide
Contact
778.785.785 ext. 1133
Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/westsidefoodcollaborative and Instagram @community.food.westside