📢Did you miss the live webinar yesterday with elders, practitioners + researchers from kílala lelum talking about improving care + reducing overdose risk for Indigenous people who use opioids?💊 🛟No worries! You can find the recording + slide deck here: nss-aps.ca/kilala-lelum

VANDU remembers Flora today, with Del at the front of a room full of mourners. Del is the last living member of the “Fab Four”: Tracy Morrison, Chereece Keewatin and Flora Munro. Now all gone

Yesterday at SisterSquare we held our first mobile health clinic. We were thrilled to welcome kílala lelum Mobile Outreach Program to offer counselling, prescriptions and more. Women in the DTES can access these clinics on the first Thursday of every month from 4-6pm. 👩‍⚕️❤️

We are hiring! Apply to [email protected] #sexworkiswork

Published in March 2023, Chinatown Looks is an independently published photobook featuring the photographs captured by 10 seniors and 11 youth participating artists. Support our work by purchasing a copy today: yarrowsociety.ca/shop

ICYMI: a number of Kìlala Lelum members are featured in this story from Isabella Zavarise, bringing important attention to healthcare discrimination, including social navigator Lexi Fisher (ȼi·katǂiʔtit ka·kin (Lexi Fisher)):

New: BC Coroners Service has released latest drug death summary, and youth drug deaths Jan 2017 - Dec 2022. - at least 176 more deaths in May (5.7/day) - ↓ 16% from May 2022, ↓19% from April 2023 - now 1,018 deaths for 2023 - no indication Rx safer supply contributing to deaths

Thank you Elder Bruce & kílala lelum for smudging & support. KL health van provides compassionate, non judgemental mobile care every week at #CRABPark #tentCity #Culturesaveslives #uncededterritories #MST Diana Day UBCIC UBC Social Justice Centre Vancouver Coastal Health No Eviction at CRAB Park APTN News

HAPPY OCTOBER!!! 🎃👻🪩🚌🍂🌙 Ring in the season by contributing at our monthly drive!!!💀 There won't be any TRICKS but we may even have a TREAT for you (see our previous hoodie giveaway post!!!) 🧡💛🤎 💥PLEASE READ OUR NOTES BELOW:

a number of our frontline members contributed to this recently peer-reviewed publication, which is a critical historical & political review on the nonprofit landscape specific to Vancouver & k'emk'emelay, for the journal of Social Sciences: doi.org/10.3390/socsci…

kilala lelum's cultural wellness team will be hosting a burning ceremony today at CRAB Park @ 1pm in memory & ceremony of those we have lost to the drug toxicity crisis.

The EQUIP Equity Essentials was developed in collaboration with partners: CAPSA Canada kílala lelum #VanCommunityActionTeam. We asked: What should every service provider know? Find key points & short videos here: equiphealthcare.ca/resources/equi… #EquippingForEquity

The area where #tents and #humans were violently evicted last week was smudged by Elder Bruce and kílala lelum Health Centre. Elder Bruce said he could “feel the sadness”. #humansofCRABPark #noevictions #StoptheSweeps Defund 604 Defund, Disarm, Dismantle & #AbolishVPD The Shift Backpack Project MN

🚨COMMUNITY RESOURCE ALERT🚨 The toxic drug supply, introduction of tranq, worsening housing crisis, and stigmatizing health care system are creating challenging wounds for our members. These folks (and many others!) can help:

#SexWorkerCircle (SWC) at #WISHDropIn was created to increase safety through #PeerSupport and knowledge sharing + the program is now co-hosted with kílala lelum! SWC is at WISH on Mon from 2-4pm and KL on Wed from 2-4pm. Check dates on the WISH calendar: bit.ly/3Wpxs76

Watch Dr Terri Aldred facilitate a discussion with Elder Bruce Robinson, Dr Michael Dumont, & Dr David Tu about #PrimaryCare clinic models that meaningfully weave together traditional #Indigenous approaches with western medicine. kílala lelum #NIHM2024 youtube.com/watch?v=MtpxsH…