Street Nurses Network Toronto

Nurses working with homeless and precariously housed in Toronto. Engaging in advocacy & skill sharing to best serve clients.
(@TorontoSNN is no longer in use)

[Street Nurses Network Toronto @streetnursesTO]

Statement on the Trinity Bellwoods encampment clearing from @streetnursesTO, @HPAP_Ontario, Hamilton Healthcare Workers for Alternatives to Policing and volunteer medics.

Cc: @JohnTory @joe_cressy

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

Not exhaustive, but a few locations that will be open for unhoused folks from today until Jan. 2, including meals and meal times! @TODropinNetwork also has their Holiday Meal List available here (second tab): https://t.co/kvSkQtiNC9

[Rosé Bautista @DesmondCole]

last night a fire broke out at All Saints supportive housing units. one tenant died, and two more were seriously injured. Twenty residents have been displaced

Please donate, please share https://t.co/XB3fBzOfPs

[Health Providers Against Poverty @HPAP_Ontario]

World Mental Health Day ⚡️PHONE ZAP ⚡️ 



Call on our provincial representative for LIVABLE wages, food and housing security. 


Poverty reduction IS a mental health intervention!


Time: October 11, 6:30-7:30pm


LINK HERE: https://t.co/TM9TwPyO35

[Ontario Nurses' Association @ontarionurses]

We are concerned by the incident that took place outside Monday's Leadership Debate, and we stand in solidarity with the @SEIUHealthCan health care workers who were injured while trying to voice their opposition to the Ford government's policies.
https://t.co/jWNDjav7xX

[Street Nurses Network Toronto @streetnursesTO]

We endorse @decentworkhlth’s report calling for healthy wages & hours, 10 permanent #PaidSickDays & workplace protections.
#OnPoli #Justice4Workers https://t.co/gz8PoaF8Rg

[Health Providers Against Poverty @HPAP_Ontario]

"We must call on you to act: No one should freeze to death in @cityoftoronto"

@HPAP_Ontario has submitted a formal request to the Chief Coroner of #Ontario, Dr. Dirk Huyer, for an inquest into the circumstances leading to the recent cold weather deaths of three unhoused people.

[Sam Hersh @SamHersh01]

A tale of two protests.

[Rafi Aaron @RafiInterfaith]

6 deaths of unhoused ppl in 6 days in T.O. A front-line org lost 1 person each day it was open this wk. Another person froze to death last night in one of the wealthiest city's in the world because there's no shelter beds. #6Deaths6DaysTO 1/

[Gillian Kolla, PhD @GillianKolla]

Today our team released a report on experiences of overdose among people who use drugs. What were experiences of healthcare after an OD like? Unfortunately, "they treat you with such disdain" sums it up. With @KathleenKenny @AMBayoumi @tkhorasheh @ZoeDodd https://t.co/thqKDzUeWm

[Marcel Rambo @vee9zee]

Addiction is a real thing but I don’t think it’s at all like what we have been told. Mostly because prohibition only validates negative consequences and erases the many ways drug use can benefit and sustain our lives 🧵

[University of Toronto Harm Reduction Collective @UofTHRC]

IMAGINING A POLICE-FREE U OF T
with Dr. Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho)

MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 6:00 - 7:30PM EDT

Register: https://t.co/HoeXK0PcoM

[Tara Gomes @Tara_Gomes]

Please join us next week for @PublicHealthON Rounds where @GillianKolla, Jes Besharah and I will present findings of our upcoming report describing interactions with the healthcare system and OAT access prior to opioid poisoning deaths during the pandemic. https://t.co/ufTxG4BZd6

[Greg C @c_shadowspaces]

As temperatures plummet today city gov ramp up actions of abandonment & violence. These are from #UnionStation. Police ticketing a houseless person, security patrolling, fenced off seats sponsored by @TD_Canada This is awful. It will be -28 tomorrow night with windchill.

[Lorraine Lam @lorrainelamchop]

FRIENDS! hearing SO many anecdotes of not being able to find an indoor bed (recovery & non-) for ppl outside. we want to compile these anecdotes to highlight a pattern.

will you bookmark & fill out each time?https://t.co/Zn8Ldm69Rn

this will help push change! spread the word!

[Lorraine Lam @lorrainelamchop]

i’m angry bc the City told me on thurs that they didn’t see this coming: Omicron only came in Dec so they couldn’t anticipate this. meanwhile healthcare/frontline/houseless ppl knew (from the last 2+YRS) that this would happen come winter. @SHJNetwork even proposed a winter plan!

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

Just 565 people among 7000+ in @cityoftoronto's shelter system have their booster, and 37% have 0-1 vaccines doses. There are just 60 beds at the homeless #COVID recovery site, and 23 outbreaks in the shelter system. Last Jan. there were 450 beds across two sites. Utter disaster.

[Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi @birgitomo]

Seems like no one in govt is seeing the disaster that's happening in health-care 😢. The ER was SIX nurses short on Christmas day, even with triple time and half pay.
Tonight, there's only ONE Registered Nurse on the cardiology floor. ONE. ONE nurse people. Only one showed up.