Some community organizers are concerned that Nova Scotia's plan to lift the ban on renovictions this month will strain already tapped out shelter services. In preparation, they're asking that more investments in services.
The Department of Community Services is promising to follow through on dozens of recommendations put forward to try to improve the working conditions of social workers who handle child protection cases.
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HALIFAX Nova Scotia says eight small homes for people with disabilities will be completed by spring, but an advocacy group describes the pace of the program as glacial. The project, first announced in 2017, reflects the Liberal government s commitment to move people with intellectual disabilities from larger institutions to community-based living, the province said in a release Monday. Four of the eight residences have already opened in New Glasgow, Isle Madame, New Minas and Yarmouth. The government says two homes under construction in Halifax will open this spring and the remaining two homes, in Milton and Meteghan, are expected to be completed this winter.
Posted: Dec 11, 2020 2:09 PM AT | Last Updated: December 11, 2020
Social worker Courtney Brown is working with the Families Plus program.(Holly Adams)
An agency hired by the Nova Scotia government to help families struggling to stay together is expanding its services to offer aid specifically geared to Black families.
The Families Plus program, run by Family Service of Eastern Nova Scotia, has already hired the first of two social workers who will provide guidance and support to those families. I think we re going to make change, so I m really excited about it, said social worker Courtney Brown, who was hired five weeks ago to work with the program.