Meet new people, open with an Elder, play bingo (with prizes!), and share a home cooked meal.
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1-4pm » 1318 Frances St
Art and creativity as wellness: drawing, screen-printing, graphic design, painting, and more.
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6-7pm » 5024 Rumble St
Meet new people, open with an Elder, share an activity and a home cooked meal.
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2:30pm » 606 Powell St
Join the weekly think tank to discuss the meal, activity, and jobs for the gathering on Thursday.
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4:00pm 606 » Powell St
Meet new people, open with an Elder, play bingo (with prizes!), and share a home cooked meal.
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Dudes Club: A model for men’s healthcare from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Located in a newly-built drop-in centre in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the DUDES Club provides a meeting place for men to connect with each other, their communities, and the healthcare system. It’s led by local men. DUDES is an acronym for Downtown Urban Knights Defending Equality and Solidarity.
Research shows that the club is making a real difference in its members’ lives, in a neighbourhood in which the average male lifespan is 15 years less than the average Canadian.
The members, two-thirds of whom are Indigenous, say that the club has helped them deal with their health issues as well as their challenges of loneliness, addiction, cultural isolation, and abuse. The club motto is simple: Leave your armour at the door.
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White Coat Black Art with Dr. Brian Goldman – The DUDES Club
Nearly 3 out of 4 Canadian men live unhealthy lifestyles. The DUDES Club on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside shows that with the proper support, men can take better care of their mental and physical health no matter where they live.
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‘Leave your armour at the door’: How bonding is helping Indigenous men heal body, mind and spirit
Every two weeks, a group of 50 or 60 men cram into a makeshift bingo hall in Vancouver’s poorest neighbourhood, the Downtown Eastside.
They share a hot meal, play bingo, get free haircuts — then they get real about their health, talking about everything from prostate cancer to sexual abuse, in sessions led by doctors and nurses.
It’s called DUDES Club, an acronym for Downtown Urban Knights Defending Equality and Solidarity.
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DUDES Club builds a brotherhood of support for Indigenous Canadians
It’s a quintessentially masculine scene: A group of guys, clustered around a campfire, engaged in quiet conversation.
But the 21 men who have come to the Eagle Valley Retreat in the picturesque Upper Squamish Valley aren’t here for corporate team-building or a fishing getaway.
These men are here to heal and grow.
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Douglas Todd: Let’s find out why opioid victims are mostly men
Is it because males are more likely to isolate themselves?
Is it because men, to deal with their suffering, are more inclined to consume alcohol and other drugs?
Is it because men, who do the most dangerous jobs, are much more likely to be seriously injured at work and to take opioids to kill the pain?
Dr. Paul Gross is among those who want to get to the bottom of why 15 of the 60 regular members of Vancouver’s Dude’s Club have in the past year died of fentanyl and other opioid overdoses.