Currently, CMHA-CVB has 11 Bunkhouse Beds (3 Female, 8 Male), and 24 Apartments (No designation of gender), 2 of which are designated accessible units. A person can potentially be in our transitional housing program for 4 years, (24 months in Bunkhouse, and 24 months in a unit). During their stay, the person will work with a Tenant Support staff member and a Care Coordinator, as wrap-around support. Staff will work with clients to create their self-defined Moving Forward Plan. Often the person's goals are centered around sobriety, personal health, housing, education, and employment. CMHA-CVB staff can be creative and flexible in helping support people to reach their goals, and ideally progress into community living. CMHA-CVB Warmland Shelter serves a wide variety of people with ranging complexities of challenges. 

Serving as a bridge from shelter living to private rental markets, several Cowichan Valley apartment units are sub-leased by the CMHA-CVB and used as transitional housing.

Clients are placed in these units when they become available, and usually after spending some time working towards success through their individualized Moving Forward Plan. In most cases, men or women have moved from a shelter space to a bunkhouse, to an apartment, and eventually to a market housing unit.

Warmland’s Housing program staff and Outreach Support work diligently during the initial months of tenancy to ensure a smooth transition for both the landlord and the new tenant. Warmland has seen great success with this program, with clients eventually renting the apartment on their own, and Warmland being given another suite to sublet within the building.

If you would like to support Housing & Outreach Services and have a property that would lend itself to transitional housing, please meet with us to discuss and review our references. Talk to the building managers and owners who house our clients through this process. We have clients who are ready to move forward and just need a chance and a place to call home.