![]() This allows you to completely null the disk, so it cannot be recovered later. You can clone your disk to another disk or a IMG file. Disk cloning has a variety of options for both reading and writing. In the easy view, there is nothing to get in the way or distract the user from the goal of restoring data.ĭisk cloning. There are two modes of operation for the application: a basic view and a complex view for advanced users. We must do it, for every citizen’s sake.Two recovery modes. Guided by our shared compassion, we can do it again. Three years ago, we decamped roughly 500 out of our parks - which some said was not possible - by taking this approach. Where there is a will, there really is a way. ![]() This is not an exercise in finger-pointing or blame, but an attempt at a possible solution and a call to action. This is not criminalizing homelessness or poverty but recognizing that unhoused people are disproportionately the victims of crime and deserve the same protection as housed citizens.Īs the two organizations most adversely affected by what is happening on Pandora, we call on a leader from government - which has the power, resources, and capacity to drive the needed change - to come forward, bring the key players together, provide us with the necessary resources and support, and give us a deadline to make this plan happen.Ī leader who, while supporting us, won’t accept endless reasons not to act, but help us cut through the barriers to action and get it done. Support the police and judicial system to incarcerate the small number of “bad operators” on the street - those who are dangerous, and extremely physically and sexually violent, and those who traffic unhoused people, mainly women - and repeat offenders. In extreme situations, this care needs to be involuntary.Ĥ. Support people to access a range of physical, mental illness, and addictions services and interventions, including trauma-informed counselling, institutional mental-health care, complex care, primary care, transitional treatment, detox, treatment, and recovery and move beyond harm reduction as being the sole response to people’s addiction and health needs. Remove the street and parks as being the normalized, sanctioned, and viable housing option it has become.ģ. Provide and place people in a range of housing and sheltering options, including emergency low-barrier shelters, long-term shelters, complex-care housing, transitional housing, and permanent supportive and independent housing. Conduct an intensive outreach program with those on the street to build a relationship and understand how they ended up there, and what it would take to get them off the street, especially understanding their health, housing and sheltering needs.Ģ. We propose a four-point plan, to be executed in the following order:ġ. ![]() We simply do not have the resources or capacity to meet the unmet housing and health needs that have driven people onto our streets.īut based on our collective and long experience, Our Place and the Conservatory believe the situation on Pandora Avenue and other streets in Victoria has a solution. But it is equally frustrating and heartbreaking for our organizations to witness, each day, a situation we are powerless to remedy. Our Place is often blamed as being the cause of what is happening on our streets, and the Conservatory of Music - western Canada’s largest music school - seen as a bystander. As representatives of a community of social service providers, teachers and artists, we share that sentiment.Įach day at work, we witness people’s lives falling apart, disintegrating before our eyes, and their desperate needs unattended. It doesn’t matter what the motivation is - what everyone wants, without exception, is something done. Some ask from a place of frustration, others from anger, fear or distress at seeing their fellow human beings in crisis - even dying on our streets. A commentary by the CEOs of Our Place Society and the Victoria Conservatory of Music.īarely a day goes by when we aren’t asked about Pandora Avenue, what’s happening there, why it’s happening, and what can be done about it.
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