Health committee  We are acting as a supplement to the existing resources. We are trying to support the work that's going on there. We're trying to free up the police so that they can do their job better. We're trying to make it so that fewer of our people go away in ambulances because of violence

Health committee  That's correct.

Health committee  We know they're not intending to. That's what we know.

Health committee  With the attendant mental health issues, I think it's really dangerous to try to restrain everybody who comes into the hospital. That might set them off. That's one of the things you have to be very careful about. The tone you use when engaging with these people is important, bec

Health committee  I haven't been inside the clinics myself but we've been sending many people over there. They're getting some support from that and we're able to build on that.

Health committee  What I've been seeing is that people are living communally for protection and safety. In Winnipeg we have a strip through Maryland and Sherbrook where there are a lot of homeless people who hang around, and they're in the back of West Broadway and down by the river in the north e

Health committee  We absolutely need those mental health supports. Again, we lost two of our volunteers this summer because the mental health supports were not there for them. We took 22 of our youth and trained them on how to use naloxone. The thinking behind that was that, if we changed the way

Health committee  A boy turned 18 on June 25 and graduated from our youth patrols to our adult patrols, and then we buried him on August 9.

Health committee  Again, I think the biggest issue that I'm coming across is the poverty in our community. People can't afford to get out of the community. They can't afford to go places and that needs to be addressed. This discussion is fantastic, but if we don't address the underlying poverty

Health committee  Not a chance.

Health committee  Street Connections gives them out free. There needs to be a more stringent needle reclamation process for our communities. If they hand out 100 syringes, they should hand out a sharps container with that. I would much rather pick up hundreds of sharps containers rather than thous

Health committee  We've also had a half a dozen of our volunteers pricked while doing that job. It's stressful.

Health committee  If they identify as an addict, they can get it for free.

Health committee  We have 1,500 Winnipeg-based volunteers and six full- and part-time staff.

Health committee  For now we're getting most of our salary dollars through private donations. Just recently the province has come to the table and has given us a couple hundred thousand dollars, but that's all earmarked funds and it's not available for salaries. Even my salary is in jeopardy after