Edmonton’s Chinatown to see a new hybrid support service hub
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There needs to be more support than just housing, said task force co-chairs Dale McPhee, Edmonton Police Services chief of police, and Patricia Jones, president of the Calgary Homeless Foundation.“I am particularly passionate about moving toward great system integration and co-ordination so that the people we serve are not faced with unnecessary administrative barriers and receive the support they need when they need it, how they need it.
The task force’s recommendation, of which there are 14 total, put all people of the community first, she said — business owners and the homeless alike.All 14 recommendations were approved by the province, and five will be acted upon immediately including creation of the hub space. “The old siloed approach that stagnated the process for many, many years is no longer the one that we need to look forward to,” McPhee said.
He said we need to “come up with a game plan with how we’re going to deal with open-air drug use in the city,” he said. It’s largely mental health and addictions that is driving the violence in Chinatown, he added. And the community requires another place other than a jail cell that people can go to deal with addictions.
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