March 20: Emergency shelters in Kawartha Lakes still a safe haven during COVID-19 crisis
- Publication
- Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON), 20 Mar 2020
Description
- Creator
- Whitnall, Catherine, Reporter
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Newspaper clippings
- Description
- While many businesses and services closed their doors, those running area shelters did their very best to ensure theirs stayed open.
A Place Called Home's 19-bed shelter was in Level 1 on its protocols, with work from home staff where possible and advanced cleaning regimens. Vital outreach services were cancelled. A quarantine room was in place for someone experiencing COVID-19 symptoms and could accommodate up to three people.
Women's Resources at Victoria's Shelter conducted outreach counselling by phone and videoconference and ensured that the women and their children housed at the shelter - as well as the staff - were safe. - Publisher
- Metroland Media
- Place of Publication
- Lindsay, Ontario
- Date of Original
- 20 Mar 2020
- Date Of Event
- 20 Mar 2020
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Polito, Lorrie ; Watson, Lori
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Kawartha Lakes Public LibraryEmail:lindsaylibrary@kawarthalakeslibrary.ca
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