ICYMI: The higher cost for operating the daytime service coincided with a change in management for the 12-hour, seven-day-a-week centre, which offers services for many of P.E.I.’s most vulnerable residents at the former Charlottetown Curling Club.
P.E.I. supportive housing manager Shelley Cole, centre, told MLAs that a daytime Community Outreach Centre in Charlottetown has quickly become recognized as an essential service for vulnerable Islanders. Also speaking at the committee meeting on Sept. 13 were Jamie MacDonald, left, deputy minister of Social Development and Housing, and Jason Doyle, housing services director. - Stu NeatbyCHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I.
Of this $3.8 million, $1.1 million – or $398,000 per year – was allocated to the Community Outreach Centre. The Salvation Army will not receive this year’s allocation for management of the centre. Cole said the new $1.5-million contract is allowing the Adventure Group to operate the daytime service with more staff, better wage rates for staff and more case management supports.
In an interview with SaltWire, Cole said the recommendation prompted the province to seek out a non-profit to operate a daytime outreach centre.The Salvation Army, which had been operating the Bedford MacDonald House for years, was the only organization that offered to operate this centre.to the former site of the Charlottetown Curling Club in the spring of 2021.
The province later purchased the Charlottetown Curling Club for between $1.4 and $1.5 million, staff said. Green MLA Karla Bernard suggested that, despite a provision in the Salvation Army contract that required “an allowable tolerance of client intoxication,” that this did not guarantee a harm reduction approach was being followed.
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