Mobile Crisis will use their allocation to provide a wheelchair-accessible counseling van and salaries for workers and a supervisor. They will provide counseling on-site, connect clients with health and housing support and increase access to substance use treatment services. At Monday’s meeting, council will also deal with a development permit for a permanent emergency shelter for homeless people and is also working with the province to create a Complex Needs Shelter. The Complex Needs Shelter is expected to go in the old SLGA building downtown and will house up to 15 people experiencing drug or mental health crisis placed on a 24 hour hold. Unlike the homeless shelter, the Complex Needs Shelter will be a secured facility vaguely similar to a police holding cell but with mental health and housing support provided.