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A strength-based drug & alcohol recovery & education society dedicated to our goal in offering meani

12/17/2025

Phoenix House offers a licensed 10-bed stabilization and transitional living program for men with significant substance use concerns. This program provides a structured environment with clinical support following detox or treatment.

Situated in a quiet residential neighbourhood, the program provides:

▪️ 24/7 staff support
▪️ Service navigation
▪️ Group and individual counselling
▪️ Music therapy
▪️ Medical and pharmacy services
▪️ Support for individuals on Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT)

Funded by Fraser Health, Phoenix House bridges the gap between withdrawal management and community reintegration, ensuring continuity of care and access to ongoing supports.

How to Apply

▪️ Referrals must be made through a Fraser Health clinician (e.g., substance use counsellor, social worker, clinical counsellor).
▪️ Referrals are reviewed by Fraser Health’s coordination service before being sent to Phoenix.
▪️ Funding options and any associated costs can be discussed with the referring clinician.

🔗 Learn more; https://www.fraserhealth.ca/Service-Directory/Services/mental-health-and-substance-use/substance-use/bed-based-treatment-services #.YzsGTtjMKUk

Note: Self-referrals and direct referrals from partner organizations are not accepted.

12/16/2025

🏒 Join us for Recovery Night! 🌟

📅 Date: January 27th
🆚 Matchup: Vancouver Canucks vs. San Jose Sharks
📍 Location: Rogers Arena

Celebrate Recovery with a special night of hockey, community, and connection! Let’s come together to support recovery and raise awareness for mental health and addiction recovery.

✨ Look for our activation area with:
· Information table 📝
· Photo booth 📸
· Gathering space 🤝
· Resources and information sharing 💬

🎟 Don’t miss out — get your tickets now: https://www.gofevo.com/event/Recoveryday6

12/12/2025

Safe and Supportive Housing Solutions Phoenix Society’s supportive housing provides more than a place to stay. It offers stability, connection, and dignity through 24/7 on-site support, service navigation, and person-centred case management.

Our continuum of housing includes:
• Low-barrier supportive housing
• Recovery-based supportive and transitional housing
• Permanent housing pathways and solutions

Impact this year:
• 227 people accessed safe and supportive housing.

How we support residents day-to-day:
• Provide consistent, trauma-informed support around the clock
• Develop individualized plans with regular check-ins aligned with each person’s goals
• Assist residents in navigating primary care, mental health, substance use services, income supplements, identification, and community resources
• Reduce barriers through culturally safe, non-judgmental practices so people can move at their own pace

Housing is healthcare. With reliable support and clear pathways, people can stabilize, focus on wellness, and make decisions for their future on their own terms.

See full report:https://phoenixsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2024-2025-PhoenixSociety-AnnualReport_FINAL-without-bleed.pdf

12/10/2025

PRACTICUM OPPORTUNITY:
Communications Student at Phoenix Drug & Alcohol Recovery and Education Society

NOTE: Deadline for application submission is Friday, December 26, 2025.

To apply, Submit a cover letter, résumé, and optional writing via the official posting on the current job openings section.

To apply: link in bio

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12/06/2025

In this year’s report, a resident shared what connection felt like at Phoenix:

“I never had a place where people knew my name. Here, I do.”

At Phoenix, housing and care begin with recognition — greeting people by name, seeing the person before the support need, and building trust through genuine connection.

This is the heart of our work: care rooted in dignity, belonging, and relationship.

Phoenix Society offers a full spectrum of supports—mental health and substance use services, housing, help for people involved in the criminal justice system, and pathways to employment and education—so people can access the care and stability they need at every stage of wellbeing

View full report:https://phoenixsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2024-2025-PhoenixSociety-AnnualReport_FINAL-without-bleed.pdf

12/03/2025

December, we stand alongside communities around the world in affirming a simple truth: everyone deserves equitable access to health care, dignity, and support — without stigma or barriers.

At Phoenix Society, this belief comes to life every day at our Abbotsford Community Hub, where people are met with compassion, respect, and trauma-informed care. This past year alone at the Hub:

• 25,006 service recipient drop-ins at the Prevention Assessment & Harm Reduction Clinic
• 4,070 naloxone kits distributed to reduce overdose risk
• 46,398 harm-reduction supplies provided
• 66 toxic drug poisoning events responded to with care and urgency
• 1,285 connections to HIV clinical supports
• 303 people supported with HIV medication
• 1,327 unique service recipients served
• 1,296 new referrals for people living with HIV
• 2,972 total referrals connecting people to health, housing, mental health, and social supports

These numbers represent more than services — they represent people choosing health, safety, and connection, often in the face of systemic barriers and stigma. The Abbotsford Hub remains the only location in the area offering access to showers, laundry, sexual health services, supervised consumption, and harm reduction under one roof, ensuring care is accessible when and where it’s needed most.

World AIDS Day is a reminder that health is a human right, and that ending HIV-related stigma requires all of us, through advocacy, compassion, education, and community-driven care. At Phoenix, we remain committed to walking alongside people on their individual journeys, rooted in respect, equity, and hope.

[For full report: https://phoenixsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2024-2025-PhoenixSociety-AnnualReport_FINAL-without-bleed.pdf]

11/26/2025

Every Overdose Response Is a Life and Story That Continues

This year, Phoenix staff at the Abbotsford Hub responded to 66 toxic drug poisonings — meaning 66 people returned home, reconnected with care, and had another chance to be seen, heard, and supported.

Harm reduction is not just prevention — it is relationship-building, and often the first step toward stability, housing, and health.

Across all Phoenix programs, healthcare, peer teams, and harm reduction supports worked together to make sure no one is left alone in crisis.

This is evidence-informed care grounded in dignity.

View full annual report: https://phoenixsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2024-2025-PhoenixSociety-AnnualReport_FINAL-without-bleed.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawOUXcVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFIeEhxQjRaRTcxTUY3b1djc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHiFwqCjGCLpLpcl07qjF8Gno2wAWFNk9VJrlwE4fhQV6JEBII-J4RBU6PAQM_aem_eNU64bMQXV4w89bgqwUPOg

11/13/2025

This year, nearly 300 community members accessed mental health and substance use treatment and stabilization supports through Phoenix programs.

Here’s what care looked like in action:

• 400 individual and group clinical counselling sessions
• 70+ Indigenous cultural programming sessions
• 450+ music therapy sessions
• 215 recreational therapeutic activities
• 260+ mental health and substance use workshops
• 100% of people received a care plan within 24 hours of arrival

Phoenix’s model of care is trauma-informed, evidence-based, and culturally safe, built to ensure people feel seen, heard, and supported — from day one.

💬 “Recovery is not linear. Everyone deserves to be met with empathy, not stigma.” — From the Annual Report

When care adapts to people — not the other way around — connection and trust become possible.

See full report:https://phoenixsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2024-2025-PhoenixSociety-AnnualReport_FINAL-without-bleed.pdf

11/04/2025

This past year, Phoenix Society focused intentionally on building strong foundations — updating systems, strengthening leadership, and aligning our work with our strategic vision.

With CARF accreditation renewed, staff turnover less than half the sector average, and high demand for practicum placements, our commitment to quality, culturally safe care continues to set us apart.

As CEO Justine Patterson shared, “Phoenix is delivering high-quality, person-centered care, and we are ready to do more.”

We’re proud of the culture we’re building — one rooted in collaboration, accountability, and community impact.

Phoenix Society's 2024-2025 Phoenix Annual Report:https://phoenixsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2024-2025-PhoenixSociety-AnnualReport_FINAL-without-bleed.pdf

➡️ Next phase: expanding housing, health access, and wellness supports.

10/28/2025

Phoenix Society is proud to be part of the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) movement (an incredible program that empowers students to connect with local organizations and champion meaningful change in their communities).

For years, YPI students have helped shine a light on the vital work happening across Phoenix Society, helping young people understand that giving back and creating impact starts now, not someday.

The Globe and Mail featured YPI and the inspiring story of Wes Hall, whose journey reflects the same spirit of compassion, resilience, and community that drives our work every day.

We’re grateful to every YPI student who has walked through our doors, learned from our teams, and carried our mission forward into their schools and communities. Together, we’re growing a generation that understands the power of empathy, action, and collective care.

10/27/2025

This year’s Annual General Meeting + Service Recognition Awards was more than an event. It was a celebration of the people who make Phoenix what it is. Together, we reflected on our progress, honoured staff milestones, and shared stories of resilience, creativity, and community.

A special thank you to everyone who made the evening so meaningful: from the inspiring poetry shared by a Youth and Young Adult service recipient, to the incredible “Reasonably OK” music therapy performance by our Provincial Substance Use Treatment service participants, and the heartfelt recognition of our 5-year service award recipients whose dedication continues to elevate our mission every day.

As we celebrated, we also looked back at a year of impact:

▪️1,300+ individuals supported across Phoenix programs
▪️292 people received mental health and substance-use treatment
▪️139 individuals provided with transitional housing
▪️46,000+ harm reduction supplies distributed
▪️90,000+ meals served from our main campus kitchen
▪️81% of adult service recipients reported feeling safe, supported, and heard

These numbers represent more than outcomes; they represent lives changed and communities strengthened.

To learn more about our impact and stories from the past year, read our 2024–2025 Annual Report: phoenixsociety.com/annualreport2025

10/24/2025

Phoenix Society recognized for leading workplace health and safety practices

We’re proud to share that Phoenix Society has been recognized with the Award of Merit for Leading Workplace Health & Safety Practices from the Health and Safety Initiatives Team, Phoenix Drug & Alcohol Recovery & Education Society.

This recognition highlights the outstanding leadership and collaboration of Rohit Pal Singh and Siva Chandran Ramakrishna, whose dedication and strategic approach have strengthened our workplace health and safety practices across the organization. Their work reflects Phoenix Society’s ongoing commitment to ensuring safe, supportive, and well-prepared environments for both staff and service recipients.

Please join us in acknowledging the team for their steady work and commitment to keeping our workplaces safe and supportive for both staff and service recipients.

This achievement aligns directly with Phoenix Society's 2024–2029 Strategic Plan, under our strategic direction to Improve Technology, Systems, and Infrastructure. By enhancing operational systems and standardizing best practices, Phoenix is creating safer, more efficient environments that empower staff and support the people we serve.

Read more about our Strategic Plan:https://phoenixsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/phoenix-society_FNL-3.pdf

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Phoenix Society

Phoenix was established to initially support people with drug and alcohol addictions on their recovery journey transformation. In that process, the Society’s founders, Michael and Ann Wilson, saw that people flourish when conditions exist to meet their needs, hopes and dreams and that this happens in a community transformation providing reciprocal support and contributions.

Since 1989 the Society has grown from an idea, to its first recovery house, then additional recovery houses, and now is a multi-faceted service provider that helps people achieve remarkable success in their lives. Phoenix has helped over 30,000 people address their addiction and related issues.

What We Offer

Phoenix Society is located in Surrey, BC. We help people all across BC, with a majority from lower mainland area. We are centrally location and easily accessible by transit. Phoenix Society is dedicated to social innovation and community initiatives that help participants exit the cycle of addiction and homelessness.

The Phoenix Society is a not-for-profit society that became a registered charity in March 1992. As a registered charity, we focus on developing partners, building community capacity and offering meaningful and sustainable solutions for individuals.

Our integrated treatments provide:

Early-recovery residential addiction services

Employment and educational assistance

Longer-term post-treatment transitional housing, and home-ownership opportunities

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O T H E R S E R V I C E S

Employment Program Job Placement Kwantlen – Education University Community-Based Residential Facilities MHSD – Provide Onsite Ministry worker

P R O G R A M I N G / A C T I V I T I E S

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) Relapse prevention Existential wellness group Authentic living Mindful workshops

Yoga, Meditation, Volunteerism Soccer, Baseball, Music Therapy Hockey, Reiki, Sweat Lodge Hiking, Bowling, Financial Literacy

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