Daytime Warming Centre

Daily 7 a.m. – 10 p.m. from December 2, 2024 to March 15, 2025.

Contact the Daytime Warming Centre at 778-875-5447 or by email at whiterockwc@lookoutsociety.ca

Warming centre staff and security are on site at all times. Collaborating service providers may also be on site including nurses, social workers, doctors, counsellors, and government ministry staff.

30 is maximum capacity.

Services offered include light meals and snacks, bathroom facilities, addressing basic medical needs, connections to service providers, which improves mental and physical well-being for centre guests.

The City of White Rock contracts Lookout Housing and Health Society & Engaged Communities Canada Society to operate the warming centre. www.lookoutsociety.ca

White Rock Council has hired extra security to patrol the area outside the hours of operation for $30,000.  Should you observe any illegal activity or feel unsafe at any time, please call the RCMP.

Most of the people who use the Daytime Warming Centre live year-round in our community and each have their own circumstances. Currently there is no daily overnight shelter operating on the peninsula.

The City of Surrey operates an emergency overnight shelter on nights when an extreme weather event occurs, at the South Surrey Recreation & Arts Centre EWR, 14601 20th Avenue from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. 

The entrance is near the lower parking lot on the southeast corner of the building.  There are 45 spaces available for adults 19 and older. For information, call or text 2-1-1, or visit www.bc.211.ca

The Daytime Warming Centre is a drug free zone. There is no safe injection site located at the centre. 

Yes. The City has created a Warming Centre Parks Ambassador volunteer program. Ambassadors have been trained to sweep the park twice per day. They alert the proper authorities who have the proper tools and knowledge to remove it safely.

Should you spot drug paraphernalia please do not touch it. 

Report it to the Centre staff by calling 778-875-5447.

Currently, in B.C., public drug use is illegal.  People are not allowed to use illicit drugs in public spaces, such as hospitals, businesses, transit, and parks.  

If you see illegal activity, or feel unsafe, please call the RCMP.

Public washrooms are available at the Centre for Active Living, 1475 Anderson Street.

$439,970.41 to operate until March 15, 2025, including the cost of security.