
Preventing Overdose, UNDoing Stigma
The POUNDS Project is an Indigenous-led not-for-profit society operating on unceded Lheidli T’enneh Territory in Prince George, BC.
Our mission
The POUNDS Project supports and empowers people who use drugs (PWUD), provides peer-led professional overdose prevention services, and collaborates with the community to undo harmful stigmas and build a healthier future for all.
Our values
- Formal education and/or work experience are not more valuable than lived or living experience.
- Nothing is forever.
- All POUNDS employees are equally valuable – no one is more important than anyone else on our team.
Our goals
- To empower people who use drugs to manage and improve their health and well-being, as well as that of their community.
- To provide peer-led professional overdose prevention services tailored to our community’s needs.
- To undo the negative stigmas harming people who use drugs through opportunities for positive community contributions and educational campaigns.
- To offer support services to low and moderate-income individuals who are unhoused/unsheltered or at risk of being dehoused.


These pictures are from inside our site, ‘Two Doors Down’, and detail some beautiful art made by members of our community and a memorial wall honouring the memory of those we have lost.
Our Staff

Ruth Byra

Ariel Hayward
Emilee Wells
Our Board

Torie Beram

Michelle Stewart Mooney

Jordan Stewart

Mariah Curry

Viviane Josewski

Sarah de Leuuw
