Wellness group lays out goals
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This article was published 05/12/2023 (1016 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Brandon’s Community Wellness Collaborative laid out what goals they want to achieve between this year and 2025 in front of Brandon City Council on Monday.
Co-chairs Ross Robinson and Antoinette Gravel-Ouelette told councillors about the overarching goal to combine the efforts of local non-profits and social services.
For instance, the collaborative is setting a goal of supplying food to those in need seven days a week.
“I think we’re doing it already, but it’s being done all over the place and people don’t know where to go,” Robinson said.
An meeting has been planned among stakeholders like Helping Hands soup kitchen and people who use meal services to figure out a cohesive plan to provide food every day of the week.
The collaborative is also working on 24-7 access to “safe and accessible places to deal with bodily functions” like bathrooms, taking data collected by various social services and organizing it into a central repository, to develop services that consider the desires of people in need and improve the collaborative’s communication methods.
Robinson said there is a need to formalize the collaborative, taking it from a volunteer-led organization to one that employs at least one full-time staff member that helps develop long-term partnerships and makes grant applications.
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