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Downtown businesses now call outreach workers if there is a conflict or crisis, instead of calling on police services. This is thanks to the Welcoming Streets program which launched on February 1st. The calls are for help with issues such as loitering, trespassing, people using drugs or other social disturbances.

Van helps team reach the city’s most vulnerable but it needs to be replaced

Grace Family Church will operate its warming centre every night until April 30.

The death of a homeless man last month was not the first weather-related fatality of the season. At least three others have died since 2020.

A new program in downtown Sudbury to launch January 1st will put more outreach workers in the core during the day instead of police officers.

The City of Greater Sudbury is hiring more client navigators to help people find housing as more people are identified as homeless.

This does leads people to using places like alleyways and doorways, anywhere they feel they can get a little bit of shelter.

Weekly review.

Staff with Go-Give Project in downtown Sudbury has noticed an increase in the vulnerable population and more violence.

Overdose deaths are complex and come with unique challenges, according to the Greater Sudbury Police Service. But that hasn't stopped the families of Justin Barriault and Christopher Neville from believing they were intentionally overdosed so they could be robbed.