The redeeming arc of Matt Ross’s life
Vancouver Sun, page A3
Paths cross again at the Strathcona Mental Health’s Team annual Christmas dinner for clients.
Health Authority to shutter Rainier Hotel treatment program
Globe and Mail
The Portland Hotel Society, which runs the single-room-occupancy hotel, says the end of a federally funded on-site treatment program this month has left vulnerable women without services, including vocational counselling. VCH spokesperson Anna Marie D’Angelo is quoted.
Pilot projects aim to fill gaps
Canada.com (carried by Richmond News, Abbotsford-Mission Times)
VCH-Richmond will soon be able to improve identification and management of situations where children’s safety is at risk. Dr. Carolyn Steinberg is quoted.
Coffins paraded to protest DTES drug treatment centre funding cuts
Metro Vancouver
About 200 people marched to Premier Christy Clark’s office carrying coffins Tuesday to protest the end of funding for eight full-time equivalent mental health and addiction workers at the Rainier Hotel drug treatment centre. VCH spokesperson Anna Marie D’Angelo is quoted.