Social agencies reach out to clients and create awareness about overdose prevention at lunchtime fair
It was a perfect day for a picnic and hundreds of downtown people descended upon Wood Innovation Square on Wednesday to fill their bellies and share a few laughs with friends and strangers alike at the Healing Fire Overdose Prevention Community Health Fair.
Jessica spends her nights at one of the city’s downtown shelters but figures that’s just a temporary thing.Wednesday’s fair was sponsored by the Prince George Nechako Aboriginal Training Association through the Urban Aboriginal Working Group and was hosted by Phoenix Transition Society. Each month a different agency takes a turn as hosts.
“I’m learning some important stuff about a serious topic that is not talked about enough, the opioid addictions and general struggles of today’s society and how we can work together to figure it out,” said Beetlestone. Beetlestone says he’s spent the past year getting to know some of the characters who make up the city’s unhoused population. He spoke on their behalf at the public forum on community safety May 29 at the civic centre that focused on the Moccasin Flats encampment.
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