New emergency shelter coming to Moncton in late December
“We don’t have an operator yet so we have met with all our community agencies that deal with individuals experiencing homelessness and we will be working with them,” Jocelyn Cohoon, Moncton’s director of recreation, told reporters on Monday. “It may be one, it may be a partnership.”
Vincent Merola, the city’s community development officer for social inclusion, said there currently aren’t enough support care workers to meet the existing demand.“We’re short, and urgently need, prescribing clinicians. In addition to that we are short about 17 front-line workers, 30 case managers, social workers.”Cohoon said the city is looking at other options such as heated tents if they’re unable to find the space.
In an e-mailed statement, a spokesperson for the Department of Social Development told Global News on Monday that “critical thinkers from various government departments Social Development, Health, Justice and Public Safety, and Executive Council Office” would be visiting Moncton in the coming week and meeting front-line workers “to take an in-depth look at the challenges, current and future, being faced by people experiencing homelessness in Moncton.
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