Housing and homelessness are two issues the District of Nipissing Social Services Administration Board is advocating for with provincial decision-makers this week.
Officials with the board are at the Rural Ontario Municipal Conference in Toronto.
They’re also focusing on child care and community well-being.
“ROMA gives us the chance to bring the North’s lived realities directly to the people who can help change them,” says Mark King, DNSSAB Board Chair. “Across our communities we see residents struggling to secure housing, to access child care, and to find mental health and substance use supports when they need them. We are urging the province to work with us on practical, sustained solutions that restore stability, dignity, and hope for the people of the Nipissing District.”
During five delegations, DNSSAB is bringing forward a series of focused advocacy items, reflecting urgent pressures in the Nipissing District.
One is capital funding for 183 shovel-ready affordable housing units while another includes sustaining and expanding urban Indigenous housing.
The other three include funding community paramedicine for mental health and substance use supports, improving child care efficiency by reducing red tape and modernizing funding rules, and piloting the Learn and Stay Program for Early Childhood Education.
