Just days before the fatal shooting of an innocent bystander in Leslieville, some neighbours say they pleaded with their local community health centre to do something about the increased criminal activity they’d observed there in recent months.
Last Friday afternoon, a gun fight broke out between three males outside the South Riverdale Community Health Centre , at Queen Street East and Carlaw Avenue.
“Regular visitors to the centre are feeling unsafe so are those who use the supervised injection site,” she said, adding people in the community have noticed that a lot of the issues are concentrated in the green space next to the centre, the rear parking lot, the Heward-Carlaw laneway, and in front of the facility on Queen Street East.
Nickel said the vast majority of people in the community support harm reduction services, but many worry that this specific site at 955 Queen St. E. may no longer be meeting the needs of those who use the program.Nickel said the residents group is now in the process of setting up a town hall to further discuss immediate and long-term solutions to ensure that “safety and security for the community.
This includes engaging a community safety team, which will be stationed outside the SRCHC from 6 a.m. to midnight for the coming week. “The committee will re-examine how our Consumption and Treatment Services intersect with police and other city divisions. The stakeholders on this committee will pursue all opportunities to strengthen coordination between these groups in the interest of public safety.”
Further, the board said that as one of many partners in the community SRCHC remains committed to the delivery of multi-service health care. Fletcher said she has received several calls and messages from upsets constituents over the last six or so months about an escalation of safety issues around SRCHC.
“It’s a substantial problem. … a complex and complicated conversation,” he said, noting up to half of SRCHC’s clients are Indigenous. East-ender Ola Skudlarska was running some errands at Queen and Carlaw at the time of last Friday afternoon’s fatal shooting and witnessed its immediate aftermath.
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