Our mission
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Unique Get Together Society · Registered Charity
Building safety,
healing, and belonging.
We work alongside children, families, women, seniors, and communities to create culturally grounded pathways toward dignity, wellness, opportunity, and lasting change.
Our work today
Community priorities,
clearly and honestly shared.
Our website distinguishes programs that are active, returning, in development, and seeking funding. Transparency protects trust while inviting the right partners to help bring each vision to life.
Our vision
To create a safe and inclusive world where humanity celebrates diversity and embraces love for all our relations.
Housing, Recovery & Safety
Emergency shelter, recovery housing, transitional living, and long-term affordable housing for women and girls.
Explore the housing continuum
Gentle Steps App
Breathing, movement, audio guidance, and visual check-ins that support emotional regulation at a child’s pace.
See the app concept
Right to Food Seniors Program
Nutritious food, wellness, social connection, and community participation for older adults.
Learn about the program
Lower Mainland Food Hampers
Re-establishing a dignified food-support program for people facing mobility, transportation, cultural, or dietary barriers.
Help launch the program
Our story
A journey rooted in love, justice, and community.
UGTS began in 2012 with advocacy for children with special needs and families navigating systems that were not designed around their realities.
Founded by Debra Abraham and her son, the work has grown into a broader commitment to children, youth, women, seniors, Indigenous peoples, Black communities, newcomers, and families affected by systemic exclusion, poverty, violence, housing instability, disability, and food insecurity.
We create programs and partnerships grounded in compassion, cultural humility, trauma-informed practice, lived experience, and the belief that people should not have to lose their dignity to receive support.
What holds us
Our six pillars
Love
We meet people with compassion, dignity, and care that does not require them to perform for support.
Change
We challenge harmful systems and build practical pathways toward lasting transformation.
Community
We create solutions with people, honouring relationships, culture, and collective wisdom.
Healing
We make room for safety, truth, recovery, and the many ways people return to wholeness.
Service
We respond with humility, accountability, and a commitment to meet real community needs.
Independence
We support people to strengthen choice, confidence, stability, and self-determined futures.
A connected continuum
Housing is more than a roof.
Safety, relationships, structure, cultural connection, and a pathway forward allow housing to become a foundation for change.
In development
Women’s & Girls Shelter
Safe accommodation with wraparound case management, wellness, cultural programming, housing navigation, income support, and transition planning.
In development
Sisterhood Recovery & Transitional Living
A culturally grounded pathway from recovery and stabilization toward employment, family reconnection, secure housing, and greater independence.
Planning funded
Affordable Housing Feasibility
FCM-supported exploration of retrofit properties and long-term affordable housing options in Kamloops.
In development
Gentle Steps
Emotional regulation through breath, movement, and connection.
Gentle Steps is being created as an accessible tool for children, including children with special needs, and for the adults who support them.
Visual check-insBreathing guidanceGentle movementCalming audio
The app shell is complete. UGTS is seeking aligned movement, audio, accessibility, development, and evaluation partners.
gentle steps
How are you feeling?
Breathe in
We can take one gentle step together.
Gratefully funded byRight to Food Foundation
Food, dignity & connection
Right to Food Seniors Program
On seasonal break · Returning September 2026
The program brings older adults together through nutritious food, wellness activities, social connection, and community participation.
We gratefully acknowledge the Right to Food Foundation for supporting food security, dignity, and community wellness.
Re-establishing the Lower Mainland Food Hamper Program
UGTS is seeking funding, food partners, in-kind contributions, and volunteers to relaunch a dignified Lower Mainland program for people facing barriers to conventional food-bank access.
Listen and reflect
The Sacred Journey: Truth Without Walls
Created and hosted by Debra Abraham, the podcast explores identity, faith, healing, family, and the lived experiences behind transformation.
This separate creative work reflects themes that connect with UGTS’s commitment to healing, dignity, truth, and belonging.
Help build what comes next
Community change takes community.
Support women’s housing and recovery, Gentle Steps, the Right to Food Seniors Program, the Lower Mainland Food Hamper Program, or UGTS’s broader work.