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Greater Trail

Community Connect Day

Kyla Giesbrecht & Jeff Turner

Date 1

By the end of this presentation, we are hoping that you:

Learning Goals

  • Better understand what a community connect day is, and why they are important
  • Understand the Greater Trail Area, its issues, demographics, assets and barriers
  • Learn about the important role that Selkirk students play
  • The importance of interprofessional/intersectoral collaboration

Pre-Evaluative Survey

Pre-Evaluative Survey

This survey is completely anonymous so please answer honestly and add a comment at then end of the survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FZ8MRWV

Connect Day

What is a Connect Day?

The Purpose of Greater Trail Community Connect Day is to:

  • Provide low barrier access to free services and resources
  • Increase the health and well being of people of all ages
  • Utilize mostly local assets

Sponsors

Local Sponsors

The Pastry Shop, Bridgeveiw Cafe, Dale's Barber, Luca Hair & Esthetics, United Church, Freedom Quest, Trail UC Food Bank

What they provide:

  • Access to community services from government providers, local businesses and charities
  • Harm Reduction
  • Sexual Health
  • Mental Health Screening
  • Pet Health (SPCA)
  • Hep C/HIV Testing
  • Dental Health Consultations
  • Federal Pension, Guaranteed Income Supplement, Employment Insurance
  • Tax Filing
  • Hair Cuts and Hair Styling
  • Child Minding Services
  • Supplies for Children and Infants
  • Navigation of various low income services: Fortis, Jumpstart, etc.

Services

Volunteerism

Local volunteers

Most of the service providers are volunteers:

  • Health Care Workers
  • Social Workers, Mental Health Case Workers
  • Students (ECCE, nursing, social work, pre-med)
  • Lay Workers (Firefighters, etc.)
  • Community Members

Community-based and integrated workers can bridge gaps between systems and the public.

United Church Annex

While no public, local gathering space (like the arena gymnasiums) was considered, the United Church was able to volunteer space for the gathering, as well as child minding space, and private spaces for other assessments and interventions.

Integration

Who is sitting at the Table

The provision of services is a combined effort from:

  • Social Systems
  • Health Care Workers
  • BC Ministry Worker
  • Advocacy Worker (FAIR)
  • Many more!

Inter-professional

Collaboration

What needs assessment?

Needs Assessment

How many and who?

Demographics

(B.C Housing, 2018)

Map of Communities Involved in BC Homeless Count in 2018

Map of Communities

Barriers

Barriers to Accessing Housing

(B.C Housing, 2018)

Income Assistance

Number of IA recipients from 2013-2016*

*table borrowed from Surviving, not thriving (2016)

Average Household Income

Incomes in the area are averaged per household from Stats Can. They show clearly the demographic disparities and similarities in the area.

Barriers

A main goal of the Connect Day was to be "low barrier." How do we connect people to the Connect Day and reduce barriers?

We noticed right away that funding was a major issue. Waller, Farmer & McCosker (2018) highlighted that usage of social media advertising could reach members of the population that are normally isolated, but no funding could be procured. Some radio advertisements were used, but these relied on the charity of the radio station. Posters and word of mouth were the other two advertising modalities.

Barriers

Stigma

"An important aspect of stigma is social distancing, or the desire to not interact with those who are stigmatized, resulting from the application of stereotypes" (Markowitz & Syverson, 2019).

  • Social Rejection due to hygiene and cleanliness (unkempt appearance)
  • Mental Health Illness & Substance abuse
  • Deemed "Dangerous"
  • Blameworthiness and discriminatory reposes such as withholding assistance

Rural and Elderly

Targets

While there were no measurable demographics for us to utilize to identify who would need the services the most, our local experts who work in this field were able to suggest that we target the elderly who have issues with transportation, and those who live in poverty in the outlying areas.

Families and young people who are already accessing some services are much easier to reach via posters and word of mouth. After all, many service providers were able to invite people directly to the Connect Day during their work hours.

Annual Event?

This would have been "Year 1" of this Connect Day. The planning group widely acknowledged that there would be mistakes made, difficulties encountered, unforeseen gaps and a variety of unknown factors that would affect the day. The organizer (Gail Potter) was hoping that if all went good this year that this event become an annual event such as the one held in Nelson during the fall.

Year 1

What were we responsible for?

Our Role

The role of the two 3rd year nursing students assigned to this project was to:

  • Gathering Information
  • Invite Services and resources to be a part of the event
  • Get Sponsors
  • Attend Event
  • And...report to the group for planning for Year 2 (this is also why we are doing this Prezi!). Sorry for making more presentations!

2nd & 3rd Year Students

Nursing Students

A major player in the connection of front line services to people who are marginalized was going to be fulfilled us! It helps the public, and is a meaningful application of our nursing skills.

Foot care, blood glucose testing, STI testing, visual acuity testing, and general harm reduction services were reliant upon the charity of volunteerism of local nursing students.

After all, many of these gaps in provision of service for Nelson were readily fulfilled by students.

COVID-19

Postponed!

  • In a webinar held on March 23 for UVIC/Selkirk students, Dr. Bernie Pauly expressed concern regarding the well-being of people who are marginalized, and gaps in government funding.

  • Hoarding of low cost preserves (rice, pasta, beans, etc.) removes a source of food for low income people

  • Local charities are unable to allow gatherings where they usually provide meals (Kate's Kitchen meals and United Church dinners)

Local Issues

The City of Trail has already laid off part time and temporary workers, with plans to start laying off some full time workers as well. Obviously, businesses are following suit. This creates a lot of poverty. However, what about those who don't have jobs or homes? How can a person self isolate at home and collect EI if they don't have a job or a home?

Local Issues

Postponed Until A

Later Date

Due to Covid-19 and the social distance/self-isolating, it was deemed that the event needed to be postponed due to the WHO and IH requirements of group gatherings. Gail made it very clear that this event is NOT canceled, and it WILL happen one way or another.

Postponed NOT Canceled

References

References

Canadian Press. (2019). Bump in low-income rates expected as StatCan sets to redraw poverty line. Retreived from: https://www.trailtimes.ca/news/bump-in-low-income-rates-expected-as-statcan-sets-to-redraw-poverty-line/

Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute. (2016). Surviving, not thriving: Poverty in the Lower Columbia Region. [PDF File]. Retrieved from: http://datacat.cbrdi.ca/sites/default/files/attachments/LowerColumbia-State-Of-Poverty-Report.pdf

Fry, C.E., Langley, K., Shelton, K.H. (2016). A systematic review of cognitive functioning among young people who have experienced homelessness, foster care, or poverty. Child Neuropsychology, 8(23), 907-934.

Homelessness Service Association of B.C., Urban Matters., & Non-Profit Housing Association., (2018). 2018 report on homeless counts in B.C. Burnaby, B.C: BC Housing [PDF File]. Retrieved from https://www.bchousing.org/research-centre/housing-data/homeless-counts

Markowitz, F. E., & Syverson, J. (2019). Race, gender, and homelessness stigma: Effects of perceived blameworthiness and dangerousness. Deviant Behavior, , 1-12. doi:10.1080/01639625.2019.1706140

Moxley, D.P., Washington, O.G.M, (2016). Concepts unifying social work and nursing collaboration in practice with vulnerable populations, Practice, 28(2), 115-132.

Rabinovitch, H., Pauly, B., & Zhao, J. (2016). Assessing emergency shelter patterns to inform community solutions to homelessness, Housing Studies, 31(8), 984-997

Stats Canada. (2015). Low income definitions. Retrieved from: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75f0011x/2012001/notes/low-faible-eng.htm

To, M.J., Palepu, A., Aubry, T., Nisenbaum, R., Gogosis, E., Gadermann, A., Cherner, R., Farrell, S., Misir, V., Hwang, S.W. (2016). Predictors of homelessness among vulnerably housed adults in 3 Canadian cities: A prospective cohort study. BMC Public Health, 16(1), 1-12

Wallace. C., Farmer, J., McCosker. A. (2018). Community boundary spanners as an addition to the health workforce to reach marginalised people: a scoping review of the literature. Human Resources Health, 16(46) 1-13

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