The province's decision to close 10 sites offering supervised consumption services (SCS) across Ontario, including five in Toronto, will have 'far-reaching detrimental impacts on our communities,' says the chair of the city's Board of Health.
The province's decision to close 10 sites offering supervised consumption services across Ontario, including five in Toronto, will have "far-reaching detrimental impacts on our communities," says the chair of the city's Board of Health.
"We have saved lives over the years and I've seen it firsthand. We must understand that the closure of supervised consumption services will affect not only the people who use their services, but our entire communities," he said. "We are concerned that the provincial closure of existing harm reduction services will have significant consequences -- such as more overdose deaths, more strain on police, fire and paramedics, more crowded emergency rooms, and more public drug consumption," Chow wrote on X. On Tuesday, the Ontario government announced that 10 SCS sites, nine of which are provincially-funded, have been banned from operating as they're within 200 metres of a school or child care centre.
“Parents are worried about discarded needles that their children could pick up. Some parents no longer feel comfortable sending their children to the local elementary school, or have pulled them out of their local daycare,” Jones said. “Individuals deserve support resources and the opportunity to recover and thrive. Most of all, they deserve our compassion and our unrelenting commitment to help them in their journey to recovery.”In an Aug.
The province says these hubs, which will not be allowed to deliver needle exchange programs, but may be permitted to offer needle return or collection services, would be similar to existing models "that have successfully provided people with care" and would "reflect regional priorities by connecting people with complex needs to comprehensive treatment and preventative services.
The provincial goverment is encouraging its nine provincially-funded supervised consumption services sites slated for closure to submit proposals to transition to HART Hubs, noting that they may be eligible for up to four times more funding than they previously received and would be priorotized in the application process.
Police have said there was an altercation between three males which escalated into violence. Two suspects have since been charged in the shooting, while police believewith accessory to an indictable offence after the fact and one count of obstructing justice in connection with the shooting. However police have not said exactly how she is connected to the shooting.
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