The Good Wolf Foundation
Feed Your Good Wolf. Strengthen Your Community.
Every one of us carries two wolves inside: one fueled by fear, anger, and hopelessness — and the other fueled by compassion, connection, purpose, and resilience.
The wolf that grows is the one we choose to feed.
The Good Wolf Foundation was created with a simple belief: when individuals thrive, communities thrive. What started as Stop Overdose Ridge Meadows — a grassroots response to the toxic drug crisis — has grown into something bigger: a movement dedicated to building healthier, stronger, and more connected communities across the region.
Our Story
For years, Stop Overdose Ridge Meadows operated under a lead financial agency, doing frontline harm reduction, supporting people impacted by substance use, and advocating for a safer, more compassionate community. But our work kept expanding. We were meeting people who needed more than supplies — they needed belonging, stability, purpose, and pathways forward.
To create the impact our community deserves, we needed the ability to raise our own funds, apply for grants, and shape meaningful programs that go beyond crisis response. By establishing The Good Wolf Foundation as an independent nonprofit, we gained the freedom to grow.
And we chose a name that reflects what we believe: that people become healthier and communities become safer when we nurture the “good wolf” in all of us.
Our Mission
The Good Wolf Foundation exists to build healthier, safer, and more resilient communities.
With this new chapter we intend to address the co-occurring crises we’ve seen through our work with Stop Overdose Ridge Meadows: housing instability, food insecurity, a lack of reintegration supports for people leaving custody, mental health and a general sense of connection and belonging.
When people’s basic needs are met- when they are housed, fed, and financially stable- they are less likely to partake in problematic substance use to deal with the stresses of life. Similarly, when people feel connected, when they have a sense of purpose and feel a sense of belonging in their community- when they are mentally well- they are less likely to self medicate with substances to fill voids.
Our goal is to meet people where they’re at, offer meaningful support, and help them reconnect with purpose, community, and a sense of belonging.
What We Do
As a newly independent nonprofit, the Good Wolf Foundation is expanding into programs that strengthen individuals and communities:
Harm Reduction & Community Safety
Continuing the work of Stop Overdose Ridge Meadows with compassion, connection, and evidence-based supports.
Re-entry Support for People Leaving Jail or Prison
Advocating for individuals leaving custody settings.
Mental Health & Connection
Creating spaces where people can talk, heal, connect, and be seen.
Youth Engagement & Education
Supporting young people by sharing stories of lived experience.
Community Programs
Workshops, events, and initiatives that reduce stigma, strengthen resilience, and bring people together.
Our Philosophy: Feed Your Good Wolf
The story of the good wolf reminds us that every positive change — personal or community-wide — begins with what we nurture.
When we feed empathy instead of stigma, connection instead of isolation, opportunity instead of hopelessness, we transform lives.
And when enough people choose to feed their good wolf, entire communities change.
Join Us
We’re inviting residents, service providers, partners, youth, families, and people with lived experience to help build something powerful in Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, and beyond.
Whether you’re here for support or looking to get involved, you’re welcome.
Let’s feed the good wolf — together.