
“This is the missing link that we have gone without for quite a while,” Captain Loder says of the program. “We are really excited about this.”
An initiative, developed after COVID-19, called the “Market Room” at the Salvation Army food bank in Truro, N.S., allows clients to have a comfortable experience when they come to pick up their food items.
“The inspiration was to give dignity back,” says Shannon Joy Skafte, community and family services worker.
For many people across Canada, The Salvation Army is often the first point of contact for someone experiencing poor mental health. In Yellowknife, a Salvation Army program aims to improve the quality of life for clients with mental-health diagnoses. “We try our best to make their lives as normal as possible,” says Kanishka Kawatra, supervisor of the mental-health program.
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