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West Side Family Place offers a friendly, safe meeting place for families with young children to connect, learn and play together. Our playground is made for toddlers and our house boasts play areas for dress up, and creative play with all sorts of toys, books, paints and crafts. Upstairs, there is a kitchen with child-sized tables and chairs for snacktime, and some cozy spaces for breast or bottle feeding babies. Our qualified staff specialize in the interests and challenges of families with young children. We offer programs that promote parent confidence, enhance children's development and build community. Our staff and volunteers come from different cultural backgrounds and speak a variety of languages. Our programs and services are respectful of the widely diverse cultural and socio-economic realities of all families. Our playground, and playroom are wheelchair accessible. We also have a private space for one on one counselling with any parent who needs some help.

Oak Bay Volunteer Services has been providing direct volunter services to individuals in the Municipality of Oak Bay since 1977. The help includes volunteer drives with personalized assistance to get to medical, surgery, therapy, financial, legal and other appointments. Drives are also for shopping, errands, recreational purposes or to get to activities. Other services are volunteer visits, walks, daily reassurance phone calls to check on people and arrange emergency medical help if needed, income tax returns, reading, writing, gardening, minor repairs, etc. The individuals who receive services are seniors, persons with disabilities, persons with low income, young families, and any others in need. Often we help people to find out about other resources and connect them with those. We are located in the Oak Bay Municipal Hall. We encourage people to contact us if needing volunteer help or wanting to volunteer. We are grateful for donations.

Collateral Repair Project (CRP) was started in 2006 by two American women who worked hard to stop the US invasion of Iraq and grieved over the loss of innocent lives in their name. They wanted to establish an organization that allowed for a direct connection between citizens of coalition countries and innocent Iraqis who suffered from the consequences of war. They decided to set up Collateral Repair Project in Amman, Jordan, where many refugees were relocating. Much of CRP's early work was charity related, but as the organization grew it ran numerous programs focusing on community building, education and emergency aid. Activities have greatly expanded over the years and CRP now serves Jordanians as well as Iraqis and other nationals fleeing their countries' violence, particularly Syrians who are part of the huge refugee influx into Jordan. Our programs seek to restore dignity and community among displaced urban refugees as well as to ensure that their basic food and housing needs are met. CRP provides emergency assistance to hundreds of families through, in-kind aid, information and referral services, and a monthly food voucher program that provides eligible households with coupons to purchase fresh produce and groceries. CRP's Family Resource and Community Center offers many activities and learning opportunities to allow refugees to begin to re-build the communities they lost after fleeing their home countries. CRP's strengths include a wealth of knowledge about the refugee community in East Amman and strong relationships with the beneficiaries we serve. The community center is a place where many refugees, prohibited by Jordanian law from working, spend their days. Because of this, CRP has cultivated strong grassroots support from beneficiaries, many of whom go on to become volunteers, helping to assist their neighbors to access programs and services. CRP is located in Hashemi Shamali in East Amman. It is a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization in the United States of America, and registered as an international organization with the Ministry of Social Development in Jordan.