The United Church initiated the first emergency shelter on SSI to operate on cold winter nights in the church basement in 2005. A partnership was formed with the ICS Adult Mental Health Team to ensure the service was effective and safe. The complexity and challenges of providing shelter service prompted the service to shift to ICS management in 2008 in a building at the main ICS site newly vacated by the relocation of Family Place to Park Drive.
Emergency Shelter
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