More addictions help to come for women at risk or leave prison

Thunder Bay – new addiction supports will soon be available for women and various people involved in the criminal justice system in the region, with over $ 800,000 in new financing.

Ya’ara Saks, the federal minister of mental health and addictions, was recently in Thunder Bay to announce the significant contribution to financing to the Elizabeth Fry company in the northern -Ontario Vest. The funds will be put according to the organization’s efforts to help abuse substances and addictions.

The company offers programming and advocacy for women, two people with spirit and gender, who are involved in the criminal justice system, are homeless or risk being criminalized. They operate three transient housing facilities in Thunder Bay for people who have been incarcerated, are untouched or deal with mental health abuse and substances.

The money will go to ensure a health consumption coordinator, as well as to hire peer support workers to help customers, said Lindsay Martin, executive director of local Elizabeth Fry.

“I know that our opiate death rate in Thunder Bay is even higher than the rest of the province and I think it is important for the federal government to take a look at the fact that when I know that many of the provincial government mandates are to change the Directive Directive Directory,” they said.

“So it will be important for us to be able to maintain some of those supports that the community needs.”

The new supports will help customers who need help when accessing the company’s services.

“People will enter, whether or not they leave, prison spaces, will enter our units and … to be supported and evaluated by our care team, together with that equally support just to see where they are,” Martin said.

“I know that everyone’s path is quite individual, so it will vary depending on how the services will look,” they continued. “Finally, making less harmful choices for people who use substances in our community is the key and construction of that community within that population, I think, it is essential for them to feel sustained and to trust the individuals who serve them.”

Local Public Health and Social Services they quoted a lot of time The death rate of overdose on the capita head of the city compared to the rest Ontario. Martin said that statistics like this, as well as the prevalence of dangerous street drugs such as Fentanil, make efforts such as the work of Elizabeth Fry.

“Knowing that the opiates and the crisis of fentanel and the supply of toxic drugs are spread through our community and we all see that in the social services industry, especially those who are not unworthy and leave the incarceration,” said Martin.

“So, I think it is very important that the financing is allocated to this community, especially due to … the death rates that are much higher than the average province.”