Helping Spirit Lodge Society

11/14/2025

First Day of Ribbon Skirt Teachings! At HSLS ! Thank you Staff for the soup and bannock !

11/12/2025

🧚‍♀️Community Gathering's: Igniting Positive Change, One Connection at a Time🧡

11/06/2025

11/06/2025

A beautiful lodge ceremony was held for our people🧡
Aho

11/01/2025

From Our Lodge ‼️to yours All of us hope you all had a safe warm Halloween 🎃 night with your family . FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION here at HSLS

10/31/2025

Journey Home & Outreach Team – November 2025 Schedule

Supporting our relatives, lifting our spirits, and walking together on the healing path.

The Helping Spirit Lodge Society’s Journey Home & Outreach Team is here for you all month long!
Here’s what’s happening in November 2025:

Monthly Highlights:

Full Moon Pipe Ceremony, November 5 (Doors open 4:30 PM | Ceremony 5–8 PM)

Hamper Days, November 4 & 18 (11:30 AM–1:30 PM, registration required)

Ribbon Skirt & Shirt Workshop, November 13 (10 AM–4 PM, call to register)

Status Card Clinic, November 21 (10 AM–2 PM, call to register)

Outreach Kitchen, Fridays (handing out food to our relatives in the DTES)

To register or book an intake appointment:
Call 604-874-6629, press 1.

We’ll also continue to offer intake support every Monday to Thursday afternoons, along with ongoing food distribution, housing support, and community care.

Let’s continue to uplift one another this month, together in kindness, strength, and spirit.

10/30/2025

On behalf of HSLS, we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the GVFB for your continued support and generosity. Your Contributions help us serve women, children and families within our community. Together we are breaking ground ensuring that no one goes hungry. Standing together ! Thank you for the delicious lunch

10/27/2025

Status Card Registration & Renewal Event

The Healing Bear Outreach Team and Helping Spirit Lodge Society, in partnership with Lu’ma Native Housing Society, are here to support our relatives with Status Card registration and renewals.

Friday, November 21st, 2025
Doors open 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM
3965 Dumfries St

Please bring 2 pieces of ID.
2 passport photos make the process more smoothly but no required.
Our team will be on-site to help guide you through the process with care and patience.

Office: 604-874-6629 Ext 1
Outreach Cell: 236-509-7285

10/22/2025

Full Beaver Moon Pipe Ceremony
Hosted by Helping Spirit Lodge Society

Wednesday, November 5th, 2025
Doors open at 4:30 PM
Ceremony from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
3965 Dumfries Street, Vancouver

We gather in ceremony under the Full Beaver Moon, honoring and acknowledging the Coast Salish People and their ancestors whose lands we are upon.

Come join us in releasing all that no longer serves your spirit — letting go, healing, and realigning with the guidance of Grandmother Moon.

This is a time for reflection, gratitude, and renewal.
Everyone’s welcome — bring your good heart and open spirit.

10/21/2025

Helping Spirit Lodge Society – 35th Annual General Meeting!

Helping Spirit Lodge Society is holding our 35th Annual General Meeting next week!

📅 Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
🕠 Time: 5:30 PM
📍 Location: 3965 Dumfries Street, Vancouver, BC

If you’re interested in becoming a member, we invite you to join us at the meeting. For a membership application: please email office_manager@hsls.ca

We look forward to seeing you there!

Here is the fillable form !
https://form.jotform.com/252937241641053

10/17/2025

Helping Spirit Lodge Society is seeking Facilitators and Knowledge Keepers to share teachings with our women and children in 1st and 2nd Stage Transitional Housing. We are looking for individuals with expertise and experience in: Ribbon skirt teachings and their meanings, and Pipe Carriers to support spiritual and cultural healing. If you or someone you know possesses these teachings and would like to support our families, please reach out — we’d love to connect. 🧡 reception@hsls.ca