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KELOWNA, BC  – The Bridge Youth & Family Services is pleased to announce they are recipients of an anonymous $30,000 donation. The investment will support their “Youth Recovery House” project for young people under the age of 19 who are experiencing addiction. Currently, British Columbia has less than 50 publicly funded youth treatment beds. Within the Okanagan, there are zero facility-based treatment options for youth under the age of 17. “There have been no recent additions to the province’s meager inventory of youth treatment beds and, Kelowna, sadly continues to have no local resource for these highly vulnerable and at-risk children and…

Tributes For Teens: Arrival and Dreams presented by Valley First raised $21,630 in support of building a youth treatment centre in the Okanagan. The concert, hosted by Councillor Ryan Donn, treated attendees to the favourite songs of ABBA and Fleetwood Mac and a surprise performance by Donn and Leah West to open the evening at the Kelowna Community Theatre Friday night. All proceeds from the event were donated to The Bridge Youth & Family Services’ Youth Recovery House campaign. “The night was such a success. A tribute to our young people and a righteous cause that will ensure their health…

The Bridge Youth & Family Services celebrated 50 years of transforming lives and building community in the Okanagan Wednesday night. The organization was founded in October 1969, then known as the Kelowna Group Living Society, operating two group homes – one for boys and another for girls – and has quietly grown to become a local leader in the social services sector. “Our business is a complex affair,” says executive director Celine Thompson. “We support people often at their most fragile, we engage in work that is by its very nature high risk, and we make lifetime and often generational…

Join us for a celebratory BBQ on July 26th. On the cusp of celebrating its sixth anniversary of operation, The Bridge Youth & Family Services’ adult withdrawal management services (WMS) – or detox – hit the milestone of 3,000 people admitted this past year. The Bridge has helped over 3,200 people medically withdraw from alcohol or drugs since assuming operation of the service in 2013, including over 550 people last year. WMS provides around-the-clock care from an award-winning team of nurses, access to physicians and community volunteers who provide a variety of holistic healing services. “Detoxing without The Bridge is…