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Kenora District Homes have partnered with Fort Frances’s Riverside Health Care to deliver a series of new social engagement services across northwestern Ontario.
Delivered via telephone or video call, the services are intended to ease the impact of increased isolation on seniors and other vulnerable populations who are facing a reduced ability to socialize due to COVID-19. Seniors living alone within the Kenora and Rainy River Districts are provided with regular check-ins meant to help reduce any anxiety, depression, and loneliness that they may be feeling as a result of the pandemic.
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The Integrated Mobile Police Assessment Crisis Team (IMPACT), which launched on Jan. 4, will feature a police officer paired with a crisis worker based at the police station to respond to mental health calls for service to police for 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
The joint mobile crisis response team, which has been in place for nearly three years, has workers sent from the mental health association s headquarters to join police officers at the scene of calls. That two-person team will continue to operate.
Jennifer Hyslop, the chief executive officer of the Canadian Mental Health branch in Thunder Bay, described the IMPACT project as the next logical step for the partnership.
A total of 64 residents, along with 40 staff members, are confirmed cases. Surveillance testing of all staff and residents is being done every five days. The most recent round last weekend detected eight new cases.
Twelve residents have died from the virus, which account for all but two of the total COVID-19 deaths in the Thunder Bay District. It s a very significant outbreak. It hit us fast. It hit us hard, said Candace Chartier, the chief seniors advocate and strategic partnerships officer for Southbridge. We re basically doing everything we can right now to make sure our residents are safe and well cared for.