Cornerstone Shelter - John Howard Society - Kelowna, British Columbia

John S.

I would rate it a 0/5 If I could.

This shelter has staff whom steals personal belongings of those who seek its shelter. They have far too much control while resulting in residents to become less hopeful, more reliant on staying longer instead of moving up, stealing from one another all while becoming less faithful and doing more drugs.

Imagine a place where instead of conspiring to inspire those to quit drugs and move on with their lives they openly aid them with a space of use, drug kits while all of them claiming to save lives being the ones who are providing them what they want instead of what they need.

"John Howard Society" is a cult.

Damon C.

Super clean and an organized no drug use. Friendly cheerful and helpful staff. All around the best experience I can experience for such a situation I was in!!!! Thank u Cornerstone!

Bryan A. T. T.

You are treated like children. You're only allowed to have 3 Rubbermaid bins of personal belongings and once you have those full the staff take it upon themselves to go through all your items and they pick and choose which items you get go through it them they apparently take it to storage and supposedly we are allowed to sort through our belongings and switch out the clothing for items we want but we found out that our personal belongings all went to "7day storage" whatever the hell that is! So needless to say we can't switch out any of our clothing that the staff has removed from our sleeping area for the clothing that we love and want to wear for the next week. There are too many retarded rules and alot of these rules go against our human rights! One major one is that we are not allowed to decorate for Christmas. I had a few Christmas decorations up around our sleeping quarters or else we get a verbal warning first then we get written up and after 3 strikes we get kicked out of the shelter. So disappointed in the way staff are running this shelter! They could be way more easy going and not have a huge turnover rate.

Mandy M.

It's definitely been affected negatively by covid. It's harder to stay here and not scream in frustration. Cornerstone has never had even a covid-19 scare, so that is great. But some of the new features rules that are supposedly for covid-19 make no sense.

Pauline R. (.

Awesome staff. They are willing to guide, help in whatever way they can. I've never seen a manger work as hard for both staff & clients/ residents to meet all our needs. Awesome place.

Han M.

They hung up on me and were extremely rude as I tried to get a homeless man a place to stay for the night.

Lost my faith in humanity whilst calling this “shelter”. Do not call for aid, I am so sad that people spoke to me this way. Very SAD.

Chris S.

Provides 80 beds, food and a safe environment for all. Some amazing people work there and just as amazing people that stay there. The housing crisis is outta control.

Kathy L.

Cornerstone is a good place to be when there is no where else to go. The staff are amazing helpfully caring n understanding.