The Trailer, open 24 hours a day, is the frontline of Ottawa’s opioid epidemic. The staff are tired, traumatized, unsung heroes.

Rob Boyd, CEO of Ottawa Inner City Health, weighs in on the changes coming to Ontario safe consumption sites, which will close one facility in Ottawa and put strain on other resources in response.

Ottawa Inner City Health, a charity, has been helping train Ottawa paramedics through a program led by individuals who have experienced homelessness or substance use. Paramedics are taught to take trauma-informed approaches to interacting with unhoused populations, says Rob Boyd, the organization’s CEO.

Here to tell us more about it are Rob Boyd, The CEO Of Ottawa Inner City Health and Sylvie Payant, a ByWard Market Block Leader.

Ottawa Inner City Health has launched a program that is designed to rebuild a sense of community among the ByWard Market’s drug users. We dig deeper with CEO Rob Boyd.

Ottawa Inner City Health has launched a program designed to rebuild a sense of community among ByWard Market drug users — and to address the social disorder that now troubles the neighbourhood.