The document outlines resources in the Nanaimo homeless community including individual skills and strengths, organizations that provide support services, opportunities for community involvement, and some challenges around crime. Key groups and organizations mentioned include Loaves and Fishes food bank, Nanaimo Community Kitchen Society, Nanaimo Community Gardens Society, Nanaimo Foodshare, and the Nanaimo Men's Resource Centre. Individuals listed have skills in areas like accounting, childcare, fishing, and counseling. Local businesses, parks, libraries, police, fire, and hospitals also contribute to community support.

1. Nanaimo Homeless Community
Map
Nanaimo
Primary Building
blocks
People
Groups and
Individual
Organizations
Strengths
Skills Community
Local Business
Involvement

2. Strengths & Capacity
Community map

3. Individual Strengths & Skills
Jessica, 55 years old. Skills: 20 years as an
accountant, childcare, carving, fishing, cam
ping, school bus driver, counsellor.
Lucas, 14
years old.
Skills:
Drummer,
basketball,
peer
support, co
ok
Troubleshooti
ng

4. Groups and Organizations
 Unitarian cold weather shelter
 Nanaimo Woman’s Centre
 Loaves and Fishes food bank
 Nanaimo Community Kitchen Society
 Nanaimo Community Gardens Society
 Nanaimo Foodshare
 Nanaimo 7-10 Club
 Alcoholics Anonymous
 Narcotics Anonymous
 Nanaimo Men’s Resource Centre

6. community involvement

7. Give & Go Nanaimo an
easy way to help
Contest aims to boost food donations at high The Daily News
school December 7, 2011
By Walter Cordery, Daily News December For the ninth year the
12, 2011 Nanaimo Daily News and
Nanaimo's homeless
Former drug CHEK TV are
getting much-needed
addict now helps demonstrating that we
help when Wesley Street
out those in need are doing more than just
shelter opens in May
publicizing the need to
Nanaimo man hopes Tamara Cunningham, The
help others at Christmas.
others will avoid pursuing Daily News
wrong path EDAS volunteers exceed
Published: Friday, Septemb goals preparing gift bags
By Walter Cordery, Daily er 23, 2011 Comox Valley Echo
News December 23, 2011 December 16, 2011
An army of volunteers
Hundreds give at 'Daily filled the Cumberland
Don Vanier can remember
well what it was like to live News', CHEK TV annual charity Recreation Centre on
Sunday afternoon, 11
on the street. event
The co-founder of December, to fill
Nanaimo's Together We A spirit of community and shopping bags with
Can has turned his life volunteerism helped defeat the freshly baked
completely around from the cookies, warm clothing
1970s and 1980s when he cold and make this year's event
and personal hygiene
admits he was an addict another success - Chris items for women, men
and thief.
Now he tries to help those Koehn, Daily News and children as part of
that he sees as pursuing Published: Thursday, December the Everybody
the same misguided path Deserves A Smile
that he took. 08, 2011

8. Vancouver Island University
Vancouver Island
University employs over
2000 faculty and staff at its
Nanaimo Campus. Amber Education
is a government
funded program
that helps
individuals with
financial
assistance with
business start up
and continuing
education.
Many of the
students
volunteer in the

9. Parks & Library
Local
talent

10. Police, Fire and Hospitals
Nanaimo Citizens On
Patrol

11. Nanaimo Community “Needs” Map

12. Replica handguns seized at Nanaimo
residence
Compiled By Daily News December
23, 2011
Nanaimo RCMP seized five replica
handguns overnight Wednesday at a
home on Asteria Place.
Three teens pepper
sprayed
By Chris Bush - Nanaimo
News Bulletin
Crime rankings Published: December
not all they appear 21, 2011 2:00 PM
Updated: December
to be
21, 2011 2:43 PM
There appears to be no
The Daily News motive behind a pepper
December 22, 2011 spray attack against three
teenagers in Lantzville
Maclean's annual Wednesday.
ranking of crime-
ridden cities in
Canada may be a
concern to some
Nanaimo residents.
The city held steady
at 12th place in the
magazine's
rankings of cities