Cowichan’s Extreme Cold Emergency Response Plan
By contrast to Parksville’s non-existent emergency cold weather response plan, this is from Emergency Management Cowichan
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Unsanctioned overdose-prevention sites rebuffed at Island hospitals
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 Zoom Meeting Tuesday November 19th.
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 […]
Forcing people into drug treatment is on the political agenda. Here’s what the evidence says
Global review finds ‘lack of high-quality evidence to support or refute’ involuntary treatment By Mike Crawley · CBC News – Read the full article here As the toxic drug crisis continues to claim thousands of lives each year — fuelling perceptions that existing measures are failing — the notion of involuntary treatment is gaining political traction […]
Responding to homeless encampments
Local governments’ human rights obligations Homeless encampments are increasingly common across British Columbia. These encampmentsare a result of structural conditions, including the failure of all levels of government to upholdthe right to adequate housing. They must be understood in the context of historical and ongoingsystems of discrimination and colonization. Read […]
Webinar: Safer Stimulant Supply : Program Overview and Participant Outcomes
Presented by Marlene Haines on Wednesday, March 27th 2024 and hosted by HRNA/AIIRM (Harm Reduction Nurse Association)
Campbell River OKs tents outside city hall as it updates where overnight sheltering is permitted
From the Campbell River Mirror The City of Campbell River is making some temporary changes to where overnight sheltering can legally take place as it works to open a new homeless sheltering site. Earlier this year, the city announced that it was working with the province to build a 40-unit supportive […]
Comment: Involuntary care will not end the drug crisis
It is concerning that our government is seeking to remove a person’s most basic rights to liberty and security of the person in order to impose care with no evidentiary basis, says former chief coroner Lisa Lapointe. Lisa Lapointe Sep 25 A commentary by the former chief coroner of British Columbia. Premier […]
OCAT’s presentation to Rotary Club of Parksville
On September 11, 2024, Justin Steele introduced our guest speakers: Shannon Witham, Regional Harm Reduction Coordinator, Island Health and Jamie Baird, Oceanside Community Action Team to the Rotary Club of Parksville. Shannon began the presentation with some shocking statistics. There is a public health emergency in BC. People are overdosing […]
Doug Ford delivers a death sentence
From the Toronto Star, by Manisha Krishnan Read the original article “Closing down safe drug consumption sites in the midst of a historic overdose epidemic will not help anyone to thrive and our politicians should know that by now,” Manisha Krishnan writes. By Manisha Krishnan, Contributor It’s been five months since […]