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- Welcome to Kitchener!
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- AVAILABLE FUNDS
- My name is Monica Trela and I am a MSW student at the Wilfrid Laurier University, Faculty of Social Work.My aim is to show the interdependency of policy and community pertaining to MAID.
- Kitchener's City Hall is situated in the complex gross juxtaposition of privilege and poverty that is downtown Kitchener.Some governing decisions are assigned to municipal powers of politician's, where most stem from provincial and federal legislation.
- ...Let's keep looking around!Lots of visible institutions downtown, but as you can see here, not a lot of housing being created.
- You're all talked out. Everyone is struggling, no one could help. Might as well spend your money on something that could help cope.
- This will be your room at the Friendship Centre. Please follow the Shelter Rules.
- No one really "gets it". You're treated as an outcast to society and there aren't enough resources. You're depressed, frustrated, angry, lonely. People steal what little left you have. Your family thinks you have a problem and stop communicating with you.
- Shelter filled up, but I didn't like being there anyway. It's rough here, but at least I can hope how and when I'd like. I need to protect myself though, I'm on my own. I will do what is necessary to survive.
- I made a mistake but now I am housed for the crime I've committed. I have regrets, feel unwell from substance withdrawal, but no one is here to help. I need to deal with the consequences of my actions. Maybe I can turn my life around on probation.
- A social worker helped me get discharged back to Friendship Center. People who know what I did stay there. I have to go back to the streets to have some privacy and figure out what's next. I can't get a job with my record and there's no way someone would hire me anyway - I'm stuck.
- I feel better. I met someone who felt like a friendly acquaintance, this isn't the best help but at least mentally I can get through the night.I come to my senses in the emergency room hallway, a nurse told me I overdosed.
- Stay and Suffer?MAID?
- Died by MAIDMental Illness Allocation"There was nothing else that could be done"
- Alleviated poverty: "enabling"...Still addicted,Traumatized..."Waste of resources," "Their choice"
- Poverty can be invisible. Subsidize housing, rehab, mental health programming and services.Committee to draft plan to increase QoL for MAID MH applicants. Close- support to maintain funding if mind changed, reassess, reintegrate, mitigate relapse.
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