Review Liquor Act and Regulations to reform limits on sale of alcohol (e.g. taxing indexed to the volume of alcohol/unit).
Introduction of a sober/reduced intoxication social space for adults who are homeless and low-income who do not want to be exposed to high level intoxication during the day.
Introduced a unified intake criteria for programs serving homeless adults.
Give Day/Sobering Centre Caseworkers the ability to directly connect service users to southern treatment centres.
MID-TERM
Introduce a street-based crisis response team that includes: nurse, social worker, homeless advocate (someone who is or was homeless), support workers trained in higher-level non-violent crisis intervention.
Introduce alcohol management programming in Yellowknife.
Introduce funding to operate on-the-land activities during the day for homeless and low-income adults to participate in.
Fund and monitor the impact of targeted life and employment skills programming for homeless adults.
Rapid-response intake to housing and programming for homeless adults while they are in periods of sobriety (removing them from triggers of the Day Centre).
LONG TERM
Introduction of a drug and alcohol treatment centre in the NWT with options for Indigenous (including on-the-land) and Western-based models.
Increased and improved housing and services in outlying communities (decreasing the need to come to Yellowknife).
Increasing economic opportunities in communities to address pervasive unemployment.
Increasing sovereignty of Indigenous governments in the delivery of health and social service programming, especially as it pertains to health and addictions.
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