April 14th is the 9th anniversary of the Public Health Emergency declaration due to the Toxic Drug Crisis. The Oceanside Community Action Team will be hosting “Bridging the Gap 2”, a day of speakers, a panel, community discussion groups, and a screening of the documentary “Toxic”. This event will be April […]
Knox United Church For their community work including outreach efforts to service and support challenged folks in our community. By helping ‘at risk’ folks coming through their doors on a regular basis in the way of food cards and also as subsidies for counselling that they provide. Thank you all […]
The Youth Harm Reduction team is pleased to announce the launch of Youth Harm Reduction 101. The course is now available for our external partners on the Interior Health website (and also as an iLearn for IH staff 4339). This course covers essential information on integrating harm reduction principles, approaches and services […]
Reposted from Nanaimo News Now NANAIMO — A group of Island doctors and volunteers pushing for governments and health authorities to provide overdose prevention sites at hospitals continues gaining traction. Doctors for Safer Drug Policy has continued operating their unsanctioned pop-up overdose prevention site (OPS) across from the Nanaimo Regional […]
B.C. communities participated in the report by the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition by Tyler Harper -from Vancouver Island Free Daily. Read the Source Article A new report made in consultation with people who use drugs calls for federal decriminalization, expanded access to overdose prevention sites and several other measures designed […]
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health launched 988 service one year ago BY Jessica Durling and Nanaimo News Bulletin – WARNING: This article mentions suicide. More than 15,000 people have reached out to the Vancouver Island Crisis Society through contacting 988 since the service began about a year ago, the society […]
From the Toronto Star, by By Manisha Krishnan, Contributor – Dr. Jess Wilder never thought of being a doctor as an inherently political job.B ut as she found herself confronting a dozen cops and security guards trying to stop her from opening an unsanctioned overdose prevention site outside the hospital she’s […]
Organizers were forced to move overdose prevention sites from hospital property in Victoria and Nanaimo after Island Health shut them down by Michael John Lo and Carla Wilson, Times Colonist. Read the full source article Doctors and volunteers received a frosty welcome from Island Health security guards on Monday when […]
OCAT Monthly Meetings are held every Third Tuesday of the month from 1:00 pm to 3:00. Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/88606024399?pwd=VK0rGtcbRsaa0F6kmV5H3gp4Pb0eae.1 Meeting ID: 886 0602 4399Passcode: 907444 This Month, November our guest speaker will be Jarrold Paetkau, pastor with Manna Homeless Ministries. Also will feature updates on the Treatment Centre, and updates […]
by Robert Barron from the Comox Record – “The Village” model of transitional housing was endorsed by multiple other Island communities at the UBCM A number of Vancouver Island mayors are urging the province to incorporate “The Village” model of transitional housing, which was developed in the City of Duncan, […]
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