Author of the article: Anne Jarvis
Publishing date: Feb 23, 2021 • February 23, 2021 • 4 minute read • A Transit Windsor bus is shown at the St. Clair College main campus in Windsor, ON. on Tuesday, one day after city council approved a four-month pilot project to run an east-west express route from Tecumseh Mall to the college, starting in September. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star
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Some people are lucky. They’re still working during the pandemic, and they’re socking away savings.
But others have lost their livelihoods.
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Ciara Holmes counsels people on a daily basis through her work at Family Services Windsor-Essex. But that doesn’t mean she didn’t have to take a step back and reassess her work-life balance during the pandemic.
“It was incredibly challenging,” said Holmes, a 37-year-old mother of two school-age children, social worker and customer care team manager at Family Services.
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“I did make attempts to be home. But the balance of meeting the needs of my children in home while also trying to meet the needs of the people that we support through our counselling program would have been too challenging.