Belkin House is a Salvation Army run Halfway House which they would describe as a place of healing, where the battle is fought against homelessness, hunger, and despair - a battle fought with faith and compassion.
It is offerred as place where people can discover & begin moving toward what they were designed to be.
It is described as a place where people - ordinary people - accomplish heroic things every day.
At Belkin House they believe that they have been commissioned to reach out and help people whose lives are battered and broken ... to become well, whole and healed ... so that they may discover their purpose and assume the place in life that was designed for them.
I thought this was an absolutely first class place. The services offerred are exactly what I would feel are needed by some of the harder to deal with offenders on their release. I was extremely impressed by the staff both their personal commitment and also their professionalism dealing with what at times are a clientele that most other halfway houses turn away. Again as I have said earlier they have the "We do not turn anyone away" thought process. They house ex-offenders and also run a night shelter for men and women which when the system was described to me I felt was a real light in the tunnel of homelessness in Vancouver.
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