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Kyla Giesbrecht & Jeff Turner
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The Purpose of Greater Trail Community Connect Day is to:
The Pastry Shop, Bridgeveiw Cafe, Dale's Barber, Luca Hair & Esthetics, United Church, Freedom Quest, Trail UC Food Bank
Most of the service providers are volunteers:
Community-based and integrated workers can bridge gaps between systems and the public.
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.
The provision of services is a combined effort from:
(B.C Housing, 2018)
Map of Communities Involved in BC Homeless Count in 2018
Barriers
(B.C Housing, 2018)
Number of IA recipients from 2013-2016*
*table borrowed from Surviving, not thriving (2016)
Incomes in the area are averaged per household from Stats Can. They show clearly the demographic disparities and similarities in the area.
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.
"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).
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.
The role of the two 3rd year nursing students assigned to this project was to:
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.
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?
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.
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