The Guelph Community Health Centre is one of ten consumption and treatment sites in Ontario to close by early 2025 due to its proximity near a daycare centre.
Guthrie said the HART hub will offer the same services as the consumption and treatment site on Woolwich Street., the Ford government said 10 locations will close by next March and nearly two dozen Homelessness Addictions Recovery and Treatment or HART hubs will be built to replace them.
Guthrie said he’s very thankful the government is building hubs that will offer the same services instead of just closing down the sites.“I’m really looking forward to finding out the criteria on these HART hubs that should be coming out in the next couple of weeks. And then hopefully we can move quickly to make sure that we can get the funding in place right away,” Guthrie said.
He said the city is guaranteed funding as long it advocates appropriately and collaborates with its health care partners.Park’N Fly data breach hits roughly a million customersGuthrie said he’s heard more of an increase of concern in the last few years from residents, businesses and even visitors that are around the CTS site and the level of discomfort that has grown. But the stories are secondary, and he said those are not the reasons why the site will be banned.
New provincial regulations prohibit consumption and treatment sites from within a 200-metre radius of schools and daycare centres and there is a daycare is near the site.“I think there will still be a lot of services for those struggling with addictions and mental health and homelessness, and other health care issues. The only part that won’t be available anymore is the injection services,” he said.
Among the nine other locations set to close in early 2025 will be the Sanguen Health Centre on Duke Street in Kitchener.
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