Street Saviours Outreach Society

Street Saviours Outreach Society Join: bit.ly/ssos-join Interested in joining our team? We would love for you to like and share our page to spread the word!

SSOS is a secular, grassroots, volunteer-run, DTES outreach non-profit whose nightly patrols distribute food/drink, harm-reduction/narcan, OD-responnse, first-aid, wound care & service referral, premised on community & connection. We are currently operating night-time outreach patrols of the Dowtown East-Side of Vancouver Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings (8:30 pm ~ 12:30 am) with the addition of Monday to Friday services the third week of every month. Click here - https://bit.ly/ssos-join

Street Saviours Outreach Society (SSOS) is a registered Non-Profit Organization under the BC Societies Act and operates as a secular, grass-roots, volunteer-run outreach organization that has been operating nightly outreach patrols in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver since 2017. We provide outreach, harm-reduction supplies, naloxone , emergency first-aid and overdose response, as well as safe accompaniment, and referral to other services during nightly patrols of the streets and alleys of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside as we look to fill a critical gap left daily as other services close in the evenings. Our volunteers and leadership come from all walks of life including outreach workers, people with lived and living experience, medics who are certified and/or licensed EMRs, primary care paramedics, OFA3s, first responders and nurses, as well an anyone with a desire to take direct action in making a difference in the lives of others in the community. SSOS distributes food, drinks, small clothing and hygiene items, harm reduction supplies, and naloxone, provides wound and infection and emergency first aid to responding to overdoses, assaults, bear sprayings and other medical emergencies. We perform wellness checks, provide naloxone training, assist in reuniting missing family members, and are engaged in advocacy and actively sit on a number of municipal, community &health authority action committees. Additionally many young individuals on career paths in social work, health care and first response come to SSOS for real world experience, and in this sense we are able to provide them with valuable first hand experiences engendering sensitivity and awareness relating to working with vulnerable and marginalized populations which they will carry with them throughout their careers and which will pay dividends to the community at large. Click here to see our volunteer opportunities! - https://bit.ly/ssos-join
Our organization is funded by the Canadian Red Cross Association as well as corporate and individual donors. We gladly accept monetary donations via e-transfer or direct deposits from financial institutions if you wish to donate. To make a donation requiring a receipt, please contact us at info@streetsaviours.com


Material donations that are most in need are:

Cases of bottled water or juice
Cases of Nutella Spread
Fresh foods and Pastries
Sealed prepared foods that DO NOT REQUIRE USE OF KITCHEN TOOLS (granola bars, sealed seasonal candy packages, juice boxes etc.) Seasonal sealed candy (Halloween candy etc)
Socks
Clean warm jackets
Blankets
Hotel Toiletries
Hand sanitizer (any quantity)
Hand warmers
Foot warmers
Antibacterial wipes
Face masks
Gloves
Winter gear. Sealed first aid supplies
Sealed emergency blankets

To set up a time to drop off donations, please email info@streetsaviours.com or contact us by phone.

Keep your eyes peeled fam ❤️
06/17/2025

Keep your eyes peeled fam ❤️

O you Megalopsuchia! you Aristotlean Great-Souled Men of many virtues wherever you roam take pause: A hero has fallen. ...
05/10/2025

O you Megalopsuchia! you Aristotlean Great-Souled Men of many virtues wherever you roam take pause: A hero has fallen.

In death , much as in life, those those life your flame illuminated And whom you inspired gather around and come together in Community around you to hold you up to the light
And raise you up to your rightful place in the annals of East Van's cultural mythology.

I've never known a human who more perfectly & consummately embodied the spirit and vision of everything that Street Saviours strives to be than you homie..

Oh VanCity is lonesome for her heroes..
For Trey ofAsh Helten,
For Ryan Vena,
For Angel Gates,
You Thomas Donnahey,
For Bradley Hart,
For her heroes of tireless service and genuine compassion,
Of unaffectedness & disinterested in n self congratulation, but plane spokenly unpretentious affability that was driven by sincerity of motive & driven by helping others
on so many different levels, in every avenue of their personal and professional lives;

Of a clarion genuine voice that was equally comfortable laughing at themselves in an alley of degenerates as unabashedly and with inspiringly articulate conviction
redressing the smug dereliction of duty of a snide public servant.

He vacates a space and leaves us with an absence which itself becomes a presence..
that space call out to us , to me and to YOU to honor his memory and his lived example by striving to hold ourselves up to the same standard that he exemplified himself.
Because in the immortal words of the late Downtown East Side poet laureate Bud Osborne: "For there is no one to care.. / ...if you do not care. "

REST IN POWER my friend.
Thank you for letting the way ❤️

05/09/2025

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Street Saviours Outreach Society is a grassroots, secular, all-volunteer nonprof… Zac Hedican needs your support for Support Street Saviours Outreach Society!

Hi fam, we're trying to keep the lights on so we're passing around the collection plate. Whether its $5 or $500, it all ...
03/21/2025

Hi fam, we're trying to keep the lights on so we're passing around the collection plate. Whether its $5 or $500, it all helps! So if you can please consider donating, and if you cant - please consider reposting the link on your various socials and sharing the fundraiser with your friends, family and weathly benefactors! The quick and easy short link for the fundraiser is: bit.ly/ssos-gofundme2025

And although we cant pay the rent with it, we will also happily accept in-kind donations of Nutella, cases of bottled water or other drinks, non-perishable snack items, socks, gloves, mylar emergency blankets, hand warmers etc. email info@streetsaviours.com to arrange in-kind donations.

NOTE: we do not currently have enough storage space to accept clothing donations larger than socks and gloves.
Thank you for your attention, donations, shares and reposts! ❤

Street Saviours Outreach Society is a grassroots, secular, all-volunteer nonprof… Zac Hedican needs your support for Support Street Saviours Outreach Society!

Nutella 4eva 🥪
03/15/2025

Nutella 4eva 🥪

Dream Team!
03/01/2025

Dream Team!

The patron saint of SSOS: Our Lady of Perpetual Whimsy, and the force ghosts of our many departed brethren were smiling...
12/22/2024

The patron saint of SSOS: Our Lady of Perpetual Whimsy, and the force ghosts of our many departed brethren were smiling down on us last night to be sure ( Ryan Vena , Bradley Eligius Hart & countless others )

Last night 's annual Street Saviours Outreach Society Street Saviours Xmas dinner popup was a great success! With a solid turn out and admirable collaborative effort. Thanks to the energy and efforts of so many beautiful humans who volunteered their time and energy, or who fundraised or provided generous donations to bring help us bring a little more love mirth and whimsy to the community.

We cooked >50lbs of turkeys paired with home made stuffing ,mashed potatoes ,gravy and cranberry sauce and then assembled hundreds of Xmas dinner sandwiches, paired with >50 L of hot chocolate, 10 L of coffee, and gave out hundreds of pairs of socks, donated winter gloves, tuques, scarves, jackets and hoodies, nalaxone kits, harm reduction supplies. and other Christmas season treats and confections.

Thank you everyone for your gracious contributions!

We love and appreciate you! Interested in volunteering with us ? Pls do! Our family is ever growing ! 🥰 DM us or sign up for or a Wednesday or Friday night orientation spot and come patrol with us and "our lady of perpetual whimsy"" bit.ly/ssos-join for more info.
" For There is no one to care; if you do not care " - Bud Osborn (the Late DTES Poet Lauriat )

12/22/2024

The patron saint of SSOS: Our Lady of Perpetual Whimsy, and the force ghosts of our many departed brethren were smiling down on us last night to be sure ( Ryan Vena , Bradley Eligius Hart, and countless others ),

Last night 's annual Street Saviours Outreach Society Street Saviours Street Saviours Xmas dinner popup was a great success! With a solid turn out and admirable collaborative effort. Thanks to the energy and efforts of so many beautiful humans who volunteered their time and energy, or who fundraised or provided generous donations to bring help us bring a little more love mirth and whimsy to the community.

We cooked >50lbs of turkeys paired with home made stuffing ,mashed potatoes ,gravy and cranberry sauce and then assembled hundreds of Xmas dinner sandwiches, paired with >50 L of hot chocolate, 10 L of coffee, and gave out hundreds of pairs of socks, donated winter gloves, tuques, scarves, jackets and hoodies, nalaxone kits, harm reduction supplies. and other Christmas season treats and confections.

Thank you everyone for your gracious contributions!

We love and appreciate you! Interested in volunteering with us ? Pls do! Our family is ever growing ! 🥰 DM us or sign up for or a Wednesday or Friday night orientation spot and come patrol with us and "our lady of perpetual whimsy"" bit.ly/ssos-join for more info.
" For There is no one to care; if you do not care " - Bud Osborn (the Late DTES Poet Lauriat )

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