Saskatoon shelters dealing with Omicron outbreaks

Saskatoon Tribal Council’s (STC) Emergency Wellness Centre. The Saskatchewan Government declared a COVID-19 outbreak at the site on Jan.

21.Nearly all the agencies that shelter homeless and vulnerable people in Saskatoon are dealing with outbreaks. Lighthouse head on leave, board members assume leadership of struggling shelter The STC centre, the YWCA Crisis Shelter and the Brief and Social Detox Unit are just some of the facilities listed on the Government of Saskatchewan’s COVID-19 outbreak list in the past week.But representatives told Global News they’re still able to deliver services.Though he didn’t know the exact number of staff who are sick, Arcand said the centre was managing by having part-time and casual workers fill in for the full-time employees who aren’t able to come to work because of COVID-19.He said the centre is still at (and over) capacity and still providing services, albeit slower than normal because workers are adjusting to their new roles.“They’re just coming in blind,” he said, “saying, ‘OK, you got to fill in here.

Are you going to do this?’”Arcand said he believes Omicron is spreading through the city’s vulnerable population because it is very transmissible and because not all homeless and vulnerable people are vaccinated.“If they’re Indigenous people, they know the government hasn’t treated them too well,” he said. “There’s been a lot of negative systems and they may not trust government.” New emergency shelter opens in Saskatoon He told Global News working with vulnerable people requires accommodating their sensitivities and beliefs.“We don’t judge them, we don’t treat them any different.