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Seven Bayview businesses that powered through the pandemic
Seven Bayview businesses that powered through the pandemic
July 26, 2021
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While it’s known for being home to historical landmarks like the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, Bayview Opera Houseand Sam Jordan’s Bar, the Bayview District is also a historically under-resourced neighborhood. It’s considered a food desert and has struggled over the years to secure basic neighborhood amenities such as a full-service affordable grocery store.
Despite these setbacks and a nationwide pandemic, over the past year, a group of solution-oriented and relentless craft makers and “do-it-yourselfers” combined their resources to create a booming food and art scene. And while COVID-19 shuttered hundreds of businesses citywide, the Bayview District gained 12, with seven owned by women of color along Third Street.
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The action plan, touted by the province as shaping priorities and setting direction, will focus on five key areas, including evidence-based, data-driven services, service access and co-ordination, substance use and recovery, population health and wellness and service governance and accountability.
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“Over the years it’s been really clear in our community there’s a great need for mental health services,” Nancy Heinrichs, executive director of NorWest Co-op Community Health said in a press conference on Monday. “The demand continues to grow. We’ve experienced a 500% increase in requests for mental health counselling from January 2020 to March 2021. The main presenting problems of people walking through our door, or recently onto our screen, are around anxiety and depression.”
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Mental Health, Wellness and Recovery Minister Audrey Gordon.
The province is hiring a consultant to help create a five-year action plan for delivering mental health services in Manitoba.
The province is hiring a consultant to help create a five-year action plan for delivering mental health services in Manitoba. A lot of work and many reports have been commissioned in the last several years, including the VIRGO report, the Peachey report and the illicit drug task force report, Mental Health, Wellness and Recovery Minister Audrey Gordon said at a news conference Monday in Winnipeg.
Some of those reports recommendations have already been implemented, she said.