The City of Toronto is partnering with a community organization to add more outreach workers to the TTC.
Starting this month, workers from LOFT Community Services will be deployed to TTC properties to assist individuals experiencing homelessness in accessing physical and mental health services.
“I'm very pleased that we are partnering with LOFT Community Services to strengthen our people-first TTC support. I want to emphasize that it's a people-first addressing of a challenge,” said North York Coun. Shelley Carrol, who introduced the last-minute budget motion that resulted in the $500,000 needed to create the new service.
“We will be using the funds to increase staff capacity of the outreach team and providing frontline support at TTC’s public spaces,” she said. “This will be a benefit to the entire community. It will be a benefit to a vulnerable population or resource to the TTC staff and a comfort for all transit users.”
She said that the pandemic has “worsened homelessness and mental health struggles within our city, leaving the TTC more vulnerable to these challenges.”
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Former Toronto police chief Mark Saunders will run to become the city’s next mayorHe hopes to restore public trust, but may face an uphill battle from critics of his time as police chief
Read more »
Toronto mayoral race shapes up as former police chief, city councillor announce bidsThe mayoral byelection is planned for June 26, subject to city council\u0027s approval at its meeting next week
Read more »
Toronto is officially the worst city for bed bugs in CanadaThey're the stuff of nightmares: blood-hungry little pests that live where you rest your head at night, feed on you while you sleep, multiply like ...
Read more »
Toronto named the worst city in Canada for bed bugs for the third straight yearA Canadian city has just been named the worst in the country for bed bugs for the third year in a row.
Read more »
Editorial | High rents show need for city’s housing strategyIf Toronto Council needed any further persuasion of the urgent need to make headway on its housing strategy, it comes in data showing that apartment rents continue to climb out of reach for many residents. StarEditorial
Read more »