A Key to Home
With teams in New Westminster, Surrey, Abbotsford and Victoria, A Key to Home targets women and homelessness in three ways: small emergency grants towards rent, help finding housing for those homeless and individualized support to address problems.

Pathways
Through Pathways, EFry provides semi-independent, small apartments for women without resources or are in transition to independent living.

Maida Duncan Women’s Drop-in Centre
Located in New Westminster, the Maida Duncan Drop-in Centre is a welcoming and inclusive space for women and children facing multiple barriers. Named after longtime EFry volunteer and past president Maida Duncan, the centre carries forward her legacy of community care and advocacy. Visitors can access emotional support, personalized referrals, and community resources in a safe, nurturing environment. The centre also provides essentials such as nutritious food, hygiene products, clothing, and computer access—made possible through generous donations.

Growing Great Kids
Growing Great Kids is an empathy-based, curriculum led parenting program for new and expecting mothers that covers complex concepts such as secure attachments, parental empathy, brain science and solution-focused skill-building strategies into easily understood highly interactive modules. The caregiver’s strengths and aspirations are identified and life skills are built into each session, which allows the strengthening of secure attachments, parenting skills, child development enhancements and stress management.

JustKids
JustKids is Canada’s only initiative aimed at mitigating the long-term negative impacts of parental incarceration through an umbrella of programs, educational initiatives and research. Made possible entirely thanks to donors, JustKids programs include:

• Spring and Summer Camps – During spring and summer school breaks, EFry welcomes children six through 15 at week-long Blue Sky overnight camps. Children enjoy a typical camp experience while specially trained counsellors help them develop vital coping, leadership and teambuilding and conflict management skills.
• Camp Counsellor Training and Employment Program – Children ageing out of Blue Sky Summer Camp are provided with the opportunity to receive job training and employment as camp counsellors. This provides older teens with valuable job experience and income, as well as support continuity for themselves and positive role modelling for younger campers.
• Saturday Club – When Blue Sky Camps are not in session, children aged six to 15 enjoy day-long supporting activity programs similar to a day camp.

Future Bright Program
Future Bright offers low income families free, hands-on assistance in accessing federal and provincial grants for their children’s post-secondary education – totaling up to $3,200. Research shows that having as little as $500 saved for post-secondary inspires more youth to finish high school and pursue further academic or vocational training.

Anna Buxton Tenant and Community Resources Program
The EFry Anna Buxton Tenant and Community Resources Program is an initiative aimed at providing housing solutions and comprehensive support to our tenants and their families, in collaboration with community partners. As a housing provider, our mission is to empower women and women-led families by connecting them with the necessary community services and resources.

Rosewood Shelter
Located in Surrey, our new Rosewood Building has 60 shelter beds for women and children. Support workers provide awake around the clock support and management of those hotel units for residents providing assistance and support to make plans to address their immediate crisis needs and housing plans. Women are provided meal support and laundry.

Burnaby Integrated Family Program
Intensive counselling helps families stay together or reunite after a separation. Through individualized or family therapy, parent education and training EFry gives families in crisis the support and tools necessary to make home a safe and caring place to be.

New Westminster Integrated Family Program
Operating throughout the New Westminster area, Clinical Counsellors see families in their homes, or at office locations in each city. The counsellors provide short term family counselling to support families address serious conflict issues and intimate partner violence with the goal of lowering the risk to the child, of having their child apprehended. Therapeutic access is facilitated within an office setting for parents without custody of their children to maintain their relationship and gain therapeutic support with the parent-child relationship.

Elizabeth Gurney House
Located in New Westminster, Elizabeth Gurney House is a temporary shelter home for 12 homeless women and their children. Support workers provide awake around the clock support and management of the site for residents providing assistance and support to make plans to address their immediate crisis needs and housing plans. Staff and residents participate in the day-to-day living tasks involved in communal living.

A’mut
A’mut is a culture-based, full-time attendance program helping female Indigenous youth change the direction of their lives by learning to make healthy choices and develop new skills. The philosophy is one of self-direction and independence, with individual treatment and goal planning focusing on developing a variety of coping skills and self-reliance.

Christmas Holiday Programs
EFry brings the holidays to nearly 2,000 people each year through our Christmas dinner, JustKids lunch with Santa and in-prison celebrations.

Pardon Me: A Criminal Record Suspension Program From EFry
EFry’s Pardon Me program assists qualifying people (all genders) in navigate and afford the criminal record suspension process (also known as a pardon). Record suspension eligibility varies. For more information, click here.

NOW Program
EFry and Battered Women’s Support Services have partnered to support women exiting trafficking, with the aim of building a wider network of collaborations and exiting pathways for women within Vancouver, Surrey and Abbotsford. Through educating and working with community partners and enhanced case management studies, women in EFry’s NOW (New Opportunity Waiting) Project will be supported to improve their health, well-being, safety, connection to communities and resources, and self-sufficiency within one year of entering the program.

Community In-Reach
Women leaving prison often need support reintegrating into their communities and finding housing. EFry volunteers help inmates at the Fraser Valley Institution and Alouette Correctional Centre with this transition.

Downtown Community Court
The Downtown Community Court in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside focuses on individuals with frequent contact with the Justice System due to the nature of their mental health and addictions. It seeks to provide offenders with the help they need to break the cycle. EFry volunteers assist clients in understanding and navigating the court process.

Law Clinic
Located in New Westminster, the legal advocate staffs EFry’s Poverty Law Clinic providing support to individuals in need of assistance dealing with situations such as rental disputes, evictions, debt collection, bankruptcy, mental health and employment standards, and accessing income programs.