John Howard Society

Barbara Levesque came to our October 22^nd meeting to talk to us about the John Howard Society. The homeless people they deal with are often trying to manage drug addiction and/or mental illness. Barbara said they provide nightly housing for about 100 people. History has shown them that for every person being housed, there are two more spending the night somewhere outside, so by her estimate there about 300 homeless people in the Vernon area.  Sadly, many of them are seniors. Barbara outlined a number of programs they oversee and noted that in the past ten years the society has received about $210,000 in funding from our Dream Auction.  The John Howard Society in this area, and the local programs they are conducting are outlined at their website - http://jhsnok.ca/    (the photo shows Barbara on the left with Rotarian Annette Sharkey)