Government showing off its new mobile services van, which travels to remote areas, seniors homes and other locations to help renew driver’s licenses and 300 other government services for people who can’t access gov office.
Tried it. Very useful.
Pilot project stage for now.

Always fun to be the trailblazers! 🙌

Proud of our Social Development team at City of Penticton for leading this work alongside our partners & youth themselves to meet a need.

#pentiction #youth #socialdevelopment #transit #freetransit #accessibletransit #supportingyouth #safety

Thanks Dr. Alina (Tanasescu) Turner for supporting Penticton!

Great next steps ahead as we use our local data to drive forward our Social Development Framework with conensus-driven principles, priorities, processes & goals with our partners⭐️

HelpSeeker Technologies #penticton #bcpoli #socialchange

Wait....what?

'Government assisted death as the solution to abject poverty' did not make my 2023 bingo card.

Angus Reid knows this is a ridiculous question to ask, and it totally politicizes and mocks our social crises. #cdnpoli #angusreid #maid #affordablehousing #cdnpoli tics

One #Penticton childcare centre opened, but the work isn't over. Also announcing another 80 new spaces w/ YMCA of Southern Interior BC! None of this possible w/o our local orgs & govt partnerships ❤️

#childcare #bcpoli
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The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, its member communities, First Nations and the RCMP have issued a joint statement asking people to use caution in nature areas such a trails, parks and…
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A huge win for #Penticton - our 1st pragmatic Accessibility Plan that identifies accessibility barriers & actions, informed by *meaningful* engagement w/ #livedexperience voices.

#accessibility #inclusion #equity #disabilityinclusion
DisabilityAllianceBC Sheila Malcolmson Stephanie Cadieux

Agile and liquid. A proven protector. An ever-evolving enabler of bold decisions.

Congrats to OneSky Community Resources and Okanagan College on the new #ECE program being offered in the South Okanagan:

✓ Free tuition
✓ Hybrid learning model
✓ Practicum placement opportunity

#childcare #penticton #childcare workers
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No one will deny that adding to the housing supply is good, but we should reconsider what 'affordable housing' means when qualifying salaries range from $82k-128k to meet market rates.
#AffordableHousing #bc poli #princegeorge #bc housing #bc BC Housing
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BC's charitable sector needs reform: instead of govt adequately funding essential public goods, we have an arrangment where NPOs - many which rely on the labour of those living in poverty - have precarious govt contracts from diff ministries creating fragmented services.
#bcpoli

Positive to see the feds combine the housing portfolio w/ infastructure (which incl. Reaching Home $) under Sean Fraser. The prevention of #homelessness is #affordablehousing and resources for both need to be aligned.

#cabinetshuffle #cdnpoli #housing
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More $ alone won't solve #homelessness as shown by years of fed investment w/ little indication of progress.

Here's an idea: *Immediate* & targeted interventions, strong coordination of all social services w/ top-down coordinated policy for communities.
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The fun continues in my world! 🤓

#penticton #youth #youth support #community #prevention #collaboration #socialdevelopment

The core of the Jonah Hill discourse is that (patriarchal) monogamy treats cheating as worse than abuse.

As a result, men who are jealous feel justified in abusing their partner. And there are a whole lot of people who will support them in those acts of violence and control.

Another one hot off the press! Penticton community-based research looking at the creation & inclusion of lived experience voices in local homelessness planning.
#homelessness #communitydevelopment #livedexperience #research #penticton #100MoreHomes

Joe McCarthy, that you?

Sounds an awful lot like a reigniting of the 20th century #redscare .

The 2022 #CAEH conference is 1 week away!

For those attending, I hope you can join Melisa Edgerly (Foundry Penticton) and I as we discuss the work of 100 More Homes Penticton on the development of the No Where to Go report on #youthhomelessness in Penticton BC.

A Way Home Canada
CAEH

I recently picked up a 1976 U.S. edition of National Geographic exploring 5 notable thinkers on the future of urban dev.

On the discussion of land ownership - there are parallels to early #Marxist thought that manifests in much of what we see today with the #housingcrisis . Fascinating!