Social & Wellness Programs

The Community Meals program is a community kitchen initiative run at The Alex’s Community Health Centre (CHC) that provides various meals and snacks for the community. No registration required! You can go straight to the kitchen, take a seat, and wait for us to serve you!

Breakfast is served every Tuesday and lunch is served every Thursday except for holidays.

FoodFit, participants make healthy lifestyle changes by learning about nutrition, gentle movement, and how cook nutritious recipes.

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Every Monday and Wednesday an Indigenous Elder will be available for teaching, smudge, and stories. Elders will vary each day. Please reach out to our Community Wellness Coordinator (registration@thealex.ca) if you would like to know which Elder is in on what date.

A Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) skills group, RePair helps participants manage emotions that negatively affect you. Wellness Prescription required.

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SMART Recovery® is a recovery program offering support meetings, skill learning, and techniques from scientifically based treatments to help participants overcome addiction.

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The Monthly Drug Munch is an interactive presentation and workshop series focusing on harm reduction. We cover topics from substance use and safer supplies, to safer sex practice. Delicious food is also served!

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PEP provides learning and training options for participants interested in working, volunteering, or seeking further education. Our services include: communication and interview skills training; relationship management training; self-discovery and strength-finding; money management training; basic and intermediate computer courses; one-on-one coaching; resume building; and, workplace opportunities. Email pep@thealex.ca for more information.

Financial Empowerment programming provides participants –with money management education. The topics we cover include assets, budgeting, banking, credit, and consumerism. 

Contact registration@thealex.ca to connect with a staff member for Financial Empowerment!

Queer Connections is a social group for all Alex community members who identify as queer. This group has a various activities ranging from queer discussion, to playing games, to finding your drag persona! Register by clicking here

In our Beading Workshop, you can learn how to use beads to create Indigenous flat-stitch beadwork art while connecting with other Indigenous people and traditions.  Register by clicking here

Drop-in Art is a group for people to work on any sort of art project. All skill levels are welcome, and all supplies are provided. Register by clicking here.

In the Indigenous Cafe, the Community Kitchen cooks an Indigenous-themed meal with traditional foods. Learn about the food as a land acknowledgement, smudge, and opening words are shared with community members and staff.

No registration required! You can go straight to the kitchen, take a seat, and wait for us to serve you!

Join us on the last Thursday of the month during lunch (11am-1pm)

Our Social Workers work towards mitigating socio-economic barriers to improve the overall physical and social wellness of our community.  Services are client-centered, strength based, and delivered through a harm reduction lens. For more information, please contact: info@thealex.ca.

Peer support uses lived experience to support Alex community members in areas such as substance use, housing and food insecurity, and mental health. For more information, please contact: info@thealex.ca.