Creating space: the Crisis Centre looks toward a new home

Since the mid 80s, the Crisis Centre of BC has called our current building home. The space on East Broadway has seen thousands of volunteers trained, hundreds of thousands of calls answered, and countless moments of connection between people in crisis and the people who showed up to help. It has character. It has history. It also has its quirks (many of them).

Our building is aging. We do our best to maintain it, and we are proud of what we have built within its walls, but we are clear-eyed about the reality: our current home will not serve us indefinitely. The question is not whether we will need a new space, but when, and what that space should be.

What we have been doing is asking the question: what kind of space does the Crisis Centre need to serve our community well for the next 50 years?

That is a gift from the donors and supporters who came before us, and it gives us something rare in the non-profit world: genuine choice. We sit within Vancouver’s Broadway Plan corridor, an area undergoing significant transformation as the city plans for decades of new housing, jobs, and transit-oriented development. That context creates opportunities we might not otherwise have, and means that how and where we position ourselves for the future deserves thoughtful consideration.

We are not ready to make announcements, nor are we launching a capital campaign. What we have been doing is asking the question: what kind of space does the Crisis Centre need to serve our community well for the next 50 years?

We have started and will continue this exploration, and we are approaching it with the same care we bring to everything else: thoughtfully, with our community in mind, and with a deep commitment to ensuring that whatever comes next allows us to keep doing this work for generations to come. If you believe in that future, your support, in any form, helps make it possible.