Welcome

 

Welcome to Gabriola Island's People For A Healthy Community (PHC)

PHC works to support the health and well being of our community: children, families and individuals; offering a Food Bank, Soup Socials, Employment Counselling, Housing Support,  Citizen Advocate Consulting and Community Gardens.

We have evolved and grown with the needs and requirements of our community. PHC is for everyone on Gabriola. We believe that all of us are needed to help fulfill our aim of an inclusive, strong, prosperous community that is responsive, caring and sustainable. By building local capacity and connections we strengthen the social networks that make Gabriola a safe and healthy place to live. To read about the history of the organization please click here.

For an overview of our 2010-2013 strategic direction please click here

Thank you to all those who participated in PIE Day on July 24. This was a collaborative event between PHC, The Health Care Auxiliary and The Gabriola Commons. Not only did we make, eat and sell over 100 pies, we had fun with 3-legged races, pie in the eye, puzzles and made a little money. Great fun for everyone

Welcome to our new Research Assistant Carlin Dunsmuir- Farley. Carlin, a new mom has recently moved to Gabriola to be closer to her family and to attend Vancouver Island University to get an Education degree after completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia College in Montreal. Carlin will be working on the Homeless study until the end of August when she returns to school.
 

Welcome also to Denea Switzer who has taken on the role of Food Bank/Garden Assistant. Denea is a long time Gabriolan (actually born here!) and is known for her reliability, hard work and smarts. She is study psychology at VIU and we are pleased to have her for the summer. She will also be taking over the volunteer coordination duties from Julie Sperber who is just too busy running 3 business, raising the lovely Tulah and expecting her second baby!
 

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize 1986