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Welcome to Gabriola Island's People For A Healthy Community (PHC). We offer many programs and events for our community and support those in troubled times.

Current Events

Women experiencing or at risk of violence can call our 24 hour service for women in violent relationships or women threatened with violence call 250-716-4600.. This is a pager system where a trained volunteer will respond within half an hour.Press Release

The Soup Social Mondays, Tuesdays and Friday continues serve hot lunch between 11am and 1pm. People living in poverty and in need of food are welcome to come to the Food Depot, Tuesdays between 11am and 1pm to get a bag of groceries. Donations of food can be dropped off on Monday mornings 10:30 – 1:30 pm.

Groups and organizations wanting to learn more about violence in relationships, child abuse, criminal harassment and healthy relationships can book a presentation or workshop with our Violence Prevention and Response Program Coordinator. Please call Elaine at 247-7311 for more information and for a presentation to tailored to your needs.

Empty Bowl Project The Empty Bowl Project produced 62 bowls and these will be displayed at Artworks, June 18th to 21st. Come out and see the creative works of Gabriolans and bid for a bowl in our silent auction. All proceeds are for the Emergency Food Depot Program. Look for the poster around island. Empty Bowl Project Poster

Wednesday Women Wednesday Women Series has seen good success. On June 17^th the topic is Keeping Fit and Healthy and the last Wednesday for the summer, June 24^th come out for Wilderness for Women. Each workshop begins at 2:30pm and generally concludes by 5pm. Wednesday Women Information

Gabriola Home and Garden Tour – June 28th. Please drop by the PHC office at the Commons, 675 North Road for a pit stop. We will have a map available to plan your route, you can have refreshment and check out our gardens! Click on the below banner for more information about this tour

Summer Student 2009 PHC welcomes student James Pitcher to join our team through the Canada Summer Jobs for Students Program. James lives on Garbiola and will be working at PHC for the summer.

Location ~
We are located at 675 North Road, in the main building of the Gabriola Commons, directly across from Gabriola Elementary School.

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