Vancouver Police Foundation Transitional Care Centre
- 1081 Burrard Street Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6 Get directions
Location
In the courtyard beyond St. Paul’s Hospital, adjacent to Stairwell 16 and accessible via the Thurlow laneway.
If you need help locating us, please ask one of our hospital volunteers to direct you.
About this space
The Vancouver Police Foundation Transitional Care Centre (VPF TCC) is part of a group of wrap-around support services for people with substance use and/or mental health challenges.
The VPF TCC has no official capacity as a clinical treatment facility. Rather its objective is to ensure individuals are given the opportunity to move into the next level of service.
It is a non-clinical space offering short term, transitional accommodation for patients discharged from St. Paul’s Hospital who are in need of:
- Short-term shelter
- Assistance that would help connect to community services not available at the time of discharge (e.g. overnight, weekends, statutory holidays)
- A safe place alternative to the street, post-discharge, to bridge to existing care and/or existing safe place.
Clients are provided with access to primary care, income support, counselling, specialist care, Indigenous peer support and services, and referrals to community services.
Accessing the VPF TCC
To access this transition space, discharging patients must be referred by a Providence Health Care clinician or staff member.
For more information, refer to the referral fact sheet below.
The Vancouver Police Foundation Transitional Care Centre (VPF TCC) has been made possible with the resources and support of the Vancouver Police Foundation and the vision and partnership of the Vancouver Police Department.