Collaboration for Change: On Mental Health, Addiction and Homelessness
By samanthaorwell on April 29, 2008 - 8:06pm
READ FULL HERE: http://thevancouvermanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/04/collaboration-for-chan...
Remember Project Civil City- the best homeless hating document created? It's been a long time since it has poked it's ugly little head out. Sam Sullivan is bringing it back. with a vengeance. and if you ask me, it's just to take your eye off of the failure that is EcoDensity (*ahem* Brent Toderian saying that a completely new draft is needed and ALL the actions require change).
Sullivan has introduced "Collaboration for Change: On Mental Health, Addiction and Homelessness," a "collaborative" program to improve the provision of holistic programming targeting the overwhelming amount of crazies and druggies on Vancouver streets. Yes, there WILL be a consequence when you close down mental institutions and rehabilitation centres. Not to mention an overwhelming amount of ignorance towards the term "harm reduction" when we talk about haters of Insite and other programming that NIMBY's like to squak about. Funny enough, most of the public heard about the new project in the news, probably from here. Or you mayhave heard earlier this month from City of Vancouver press releases. TheVancouverManifesto, however, learned of this little scheme brewing up a few months ago. How, you ask? Sam Sullivan likes to "hang around rich people because ruch people get things done" (care of the creepily honest performance in Citizen Sam). And while in the works Sullivan did some scmhoozing in the medical community to get support from doctors and professional-folk. How do I know this? I know many a doctor. And I WISH I had been listening more carefully when they talked about it because I remember there was actually some scandal amongst the medical community about soliciting support for Sullivan. Anyhow, I'm almost positive something dirty went on there.
but beyond that, read David Eby's post on how Pivot was shut out of the roundtable discussions. Because... Pivot, who works with the homeless and working poor daily, know absolutely nothing about homeless people with mental illness or addictions and have nothing to contribute to this collaborative initiative, right?
Damn..it worked- thinking about the stupidity of Sullivan to shut Pivot out has made me forget about EcoDensity.
Labels: addictions, collaboration, collaboration for change, ecodensity, homelessness, housing, mental illness, nimby, NPA, pivot legal society, project civil city, sam sullivan
