“It’s a horrible, horrible idea, for so many reasons,” says another. What they’re talking about is a decision to remove two of the three Victoria police officers attached to local mental-health teams. The move, effective May 1, has some current and former team members sounding the alarm. But Victoria Police Chief Del Manak replies that he has no choice but to reassign the officers, due to the decision of Victoria city council, backed by the province, not to fund the effort. At question are the four multi-disciplinary teams they include psychiatric nurses, addiction-recovery workers, registered nurses and social workers, among others tasked with caring for 340 people whose severe mental illness is often compounded by substance abuse.
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Why 42% of UBCO students are food insecure, and how they re working to change that - Kelowna News
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After a pre-COVID poll found 42 per cent of UBC Okanagan students were food insecure, Casey Hamilton and her team went looking for solutions.
The internal survey gathered data based on one question: In the past 12 months, have you worried that food would run out before you got money to buy more?
Hamilton and three other researchers recently released their latest VOICE project, which added context to the statistics around food insecurity on campus. This qualitative study engaged students experiencing food insecurity to hear how it impacts their well-being, how they manage, and what they think UBC can do to improve food security.