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For more than 40 years, Ottawa Salus has been providing supportive housing and mental health services to adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in our community.
(BEN BULMER / iNFOnews.ca) February 04, 2021 - 10:35 AM The number of RCMP files concerning Vernon's street entrenched population dropped by more than 50 per cent last year thanks to additional housing says one Vernon organization. Turning Points Collaborative Society executive director Randene Wejr pointed to additional housing created for the homeless as well as the federal government's CERB payment as reasons for the reduction in the crime rate involving the street entrenched population. "We believe that a lot of the illegal camping, open use type crimes that we see when...