Executive Director Colin Tessier and Carole Forster joined Kathryn Marlow on CBC Radio to discuss the Forsters’ generous donation, which led to the purchase of Threshold House in Oak Bay. Listen here.
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Threshold Housing purchases Oak Bay Home
Threshold Housing Society is deeply honoured to be the proud owner of Threshold House in Oak Bay, a milestone made possible through the generous support of the Forster Family. This home will continue to provide a secure and supportive home environment for youth, offering not only secure housing but also essential support services and a strong sense of community for generations to come.
Learn more about the incredible impact this house has had on youth at Threshold – click here.
Non Profit Organization Award of Excellence
We are so honoured to receive the 24th Annual TD Vancouver Island Business Excellence Awards for the Non Profit Organization Award of Excellence. It was so special to be a in a room full organizations, groups, and businesses who are having a significant impact on the community – some who the youth we serve have worked for, some who help make our work possible, and it was so wonderful to receive this award from our friends at Proline Management. Thank you to the Business Examiner for having us and a big thank you to the community member who nominated us! (Photo of our Executive Director Colin Tessier and Kathryn Basson from Proline Management).
Forest of Wishes 2024
The Forest of Wishes 2024 at Chateau Victoria Hotel & Suites has come to a close, and we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the entire team at Chateau Victoria for their incredible support in raising funds this past December. Their efforts are helping us provide safe homes and brighter futures for the youth we serve. A sincere thank you to everyone who made a wish, donated, or picked up a Silk Road tea or Crowfoot Collective gift box at Chateau Victoria. Thanks to your generosity, Chateau Victoria raised a total of $6,112 for Threshold Housing. This would not have been possible without the unwavering support of our community. Thank you, Chateau Victoria Hotel & Suites, for making a lasting impact!
What is Forest of Wishes?
This past Holiday Season 2024, Chateau Victoria Hotel & Suites is supporting the Threshold Housing Society whose mission is to help end homelessness in Victoria. We want to do our part, so have donated a suite of sweet prizing to the cause. We hope you support the campaign with a donation and a wish.
Learn more – Forest of Wishes
Shine a Light on Ending Youth Homelessness Newsletter
Shine a Light on Ending Youth Homelessness
For the seventh year, Threshold’s Shine a Light on Youth Homelessness campaign is back, this year with a new focus and additional partners. Threshold believes that ending youth homelessness in Greater Victoria is possible with a whole-of-community plan. The local suppliers, retailers, and partners involved in the campaign share that belief and invite the community to help end youth homelessness in Greater Victoria.
In addition to local supplier partners, Threshold has focused on local retail partners for Shine a Light. We are excited and grateful for the growing partnerships with local businesses to raise funds for at-risk youth.
This year, Chateau Victoria joins the campaign as a major partner, aligning their Forest of Wishes campaign with providing help, home, and community for youth at risk of homelessness.
Local goods doing local good
How to purchase
Corporate Orders
Support local Shine a Light retailers
Buy online
Shine a Light tea boxes and beeswax candles make ideal gifts for your clients and staff.
Download the corporate order form and submit it by email to ensure delivery (free on orders of 20 or more units) in time for all your events.
- Adventure Clothing
560 Yates St. & 2227 Oak Bay Ave. - Country Grocer
1153 Esquimalt Rd. & 4420 W. Saanich Rd. - Silk Road Tea (tea boxes)
1624 Government St. - Urban Grocer
1625 Fort St.
Please check back for additional locations
Summer Newsletter 2024
A New Home for Youth
We are so incredibly excited to share that Threshold welcomed its newest home on April 1st, 2024. This beautiful 7-bed home, located in Saanich at the foot of PKOLS, is an ideal fit for Threshold and will create a safe and welcoming home for at-risk youth in our community for decades to come. We are profoundly grateful to the donors and partners, The Kirzinger Family and NIȽ TU,O Child and Family Services, whose support made this acquisition possible.
From Safe to Thriving: Focusing Maslow’s Hierarchy on Youth
Have you ever heard of Abraham Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs”? In the traditional pyramid of needs inspired by a paper published in 1943, Maslow concluded that a person’s most basic needs must be met before secondary (yet equally important) needs such as love and belonging and self-esteem can be met.
Do the Loop
Do the Loop is Back… with more trails and more fun!
Gerry Howell Jones
Our team at Threshold wants to send our deepest condolences to the Jones’ family. Gerry Howell Jones was one of the founders of Threshold Housing and it would be an understatement to mention the significant impact he had here. We will continue our work with Gerry in our thoughts.