Comox Valley Transition Society's Connect team supported a person that had left Nanaimo and ended up in the Comox Valley. During this time of transition, the individual had lost connections to multiple health, life skills, and housing supports that had previously provided stability. During this person’s experience in homelessness, Connect staff witnessed this individual's health, hygiene and ability to access supports decline significantly. Due to their vulnerability, this person was frequently the victim of abuse and assaults. Connect staff utilized relationships built though community collaborations at the Situation Table to develop a coordinated plan to support the participant into hospitalization. During this period of stability Connect staff provided advocacy to the acute care site about the participant’s vulnerability and inappropriateness of being discharged back to homelessness. During this admission to hospital the individual was reconnected to the appropriate supports in the Comox Valley and is currently doing well in a temporary housing placement, until long term housing supports become available. By improving the quality of life of the residents in our program we have seen results in an increase of integration into the local community and less dependence on social services. Promoting wellness and providing relational skills results in a reduction of the dependency on health services.
The PGNAETA Reaching Home Division are honoured to work, live and play on the unceded traditional and ancestral territory of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation.