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The Quarters

On another note for the Quarters. The province's "Navigation Centre" is relocating into the former Bissell Drop-In Space.

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Edmonton Navigation and Support Centre relocating to larger space

Edmonton’s Navigation and Support Centre is moving into a larger facility. The centre is relocating from the Karis Centre building to the Bissell Centre West, which is close to emergency shelters. The Alberta government says the additional space will provide more privacy, and allow staff to...
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Any type of rubber-stamping in terms of people in need leads to a sense of hopelessness for those being served. Deep care in terms of people-as-individuals is what is really needed; I think @itom987 may have been alluding to that with the "concentration" comment. To the extent that it is a mass "cattle-call" type setup, I agree with him that one location may be leaning in the wrong direction. Several cities in the U.S. are looking to decentralize their social services locations such that they are more community oriented.
 
They are concentrating them in an area during the day time. The navigation centre is being moved close to where the homeless concentrate at night. Now the concentration will be there day and night creating another 24h dead zone, they should be integrating them back into society by decentralizing all services.
 
The City could up the ante vis-a-vis Community Centres by providing homeless services in a decentralized fashion in those locations across the City. What would need to go hand in hand with that, however, would be caring social workers that could help with rallying support services brought to Community outlets that homeless could then rely on.
 
itom987 said:
Over the last 4 years we have seen the homeless panhandle in areas they never did before. Overall it is not a good thing but the silver lining in it is that it forces non-homeless people to get along with the homeless instead of running away. Like it or not, we need that exposure.
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Nope. What we really need is the three levels of government to work together and fix the d*mn problems rather than point fingers and blame each other.
 
itom987 said:
Ewwwww don't touch me! lol
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I think a little retail centre at 95 Street/102 Avenue done in the style of the spring shop would be cool. It could have garage doors.
 
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