Itinérance et cohabitation sociale à Montréal

There was zero meaningful community stakeholder involvement before the launch of Benoit Labre’s new location. Claims to the contrary by the elected city officials in the sud ouest or by the organization are simply lies. The community was not told of the day site or injection site until it hit the press in the fall before it opened. Their website referred simply to “overdose presentation” unit, but with no description. The approval of a site next to a school yard and with no oversight of the substandard implementation is inexcusable. The Neigbour committee is controlled by the organization and efforts by neighboring health professionals to join have been rebuffed. There is not true Neighbour committee. The agenda and narrative is controlled by the organization to suit their needs. The promises of credentialed and professional staff were farcical and the reality has borne out that the staff are simply not up for the task. Crime is up markedly - according to spvm’s own report - and even that is a very conservative undercount. As an example, I looked for 4 specific incidents I was involved in just in our ruelle - including a public masturbation incident, a brutal assault of my neighbour, a break and entry and robbery, and a stolen bike - and not one of those 4 incidents was correctly geotagged and included in the police data set for incidents within 250 m of the centre. So, if all 4 of the 4 I looked up were missing, it would suggest there are significant number of events that have police report numbers, but that weren’t correctly geotagged and thus missing from those numbers that still showed incidents up nearly 2000% within 250m of the centre in the 3 months after it opened. As someone who is called upon globally to examine issues of child stress and trauma and violence exposure, and the Canada Research Chair in Child Well-Being and professor of Social Work and Pediatrics, I can tell you definitively that children of the school and the few blocks around the centre have experienced significant trauma exposure, some of which will have life long effects on health and well-being. As one involved in some of the earliest evaluations of effective implementation of trauma-informed services for unhoused adults with co-occurring substance use and mental health challenges who has worked for decades in this field, I have never seen an implementation or social service organization this poorly run. Why the city continues to give them the benefit of the doubt and considerable public resources is beyond my comprehension. I will happily come speak to your committee and present on experiences of our few blocks around Benoit Labre and the fact that it’s implementation lacking credentialed staff and next to a school playground has no basis in evidence or the literature. There is no different sides on this issue - there is science and data - and it is glaringly obvious how damaging this continues to be.

Le principe est traduit en obligation de plan alors que la problématique est la collaboration de toutes les parties prenantes. Les parties prenantes devraient se réunir pour définir leur collaboration et le plan découlera de leurs engagements. La ville ne peut travailler en solo sur cette question.

Il semble pertinent d'asseoir toutes les parties prenantes autour de la même table, incluant des résidents et commerçants à très grande proximité des ressources, afin de trouver des solutions à des problèmes récurrents (que nous pouvons facilement anticiper), mais aussi pour des problèmes plus ponctuelles qui évoluent en fonction des saisons et de la fréquentation des ressources.

La présence de commerçants et de résidents peut possiblement contribuer à une meilleure coordination des intervenants, et une plus grande imputabilité de leur part.

Une définition précise des rôles et responsabilité des ressources partenaires et un bon plan de communication faciliterait la collaboration entre les parties et éviterait les dédoublements d'offre de service et le gaspillage des ressources.

Tous les arrondissements de la ville devraient contribués et offrir une partie des services pour (1) assurer une équité territoriale, (2) diminuer la concentration de personnes en difficulté et éviter la création de ghettos, et (3) améliorer l'acceptation sociale pour tous les Montréalais(es).

The integeration of the opinions of stakeholders when dealing with the homeless situation is essential and valuable. However, not all opinions should be seen as equal. It is important to remember that the very real safety and danger to the lives of the homeless when experiencing homelessness supersedes any perceived or imagined threat NIMBYs concoct to bar the integration of homeless resources in their area. While NIMBYs are often wealthy and landowning and thus have substantially more social and political clout than that of the homeless. If we are serious about these problems, we must focus on the material and the real. Not on issues like property value, or fear of the homeless. If we cannot guarentee the security and livlihoods of our cities most vulnerable then we in turn cannot guarentee that for the rest.

Oui la collaboration est importante à tous les niveaux. Le.gouvernement provincial doit donner des services afin de fournir de la désintoxication et suivi psychologique. Le ville de montreal doit compléter son mandat de sécurité et arrêter les itinérant qui ne respecte pas le.contrat social et la legislation. Je n'ai pas le droit d'installer une tente dans un parc, je n'ai pas le droit de consommer de la drogue et spécialement pas dans un endroit publique, je n'ai pas le droit d'agresser les gens dans la rue donc je mattend que si tu es un itinérant tu ne devrais pas avoir plus le droit. La ville doit prendre ses responsabilité à coeur et faire respecter la lois avec ses policiers.

Quelles parties prenantes? Ça inclut les commerces, les propriétaires de condos, la police, la DRSP et le quartier des spectacles?
Ces gens-là se font déjà amplement entendre.

Bien sûr ! Et cela prend un volonté politique de résister au "pas dans ma cour" dans les quartiers où il n’y a pas ou très peu, jusqu'ici, ces problématiques.
Cela prend aussi une volonté politique (probablement au niveau du gouv du Québec) pour qu'il y ait aussi implication, au minimum dans le partage des coûts, des autres citoyens qui vivent en dehors des villes centres...