Mayor Colleen Smook was part of a Thompson delegation that attended the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness Conference in Ottawa last week.

Once again, the City’s “Thompson Model” made its presence known at the conference in one of the panel discussions.

Mayor Smook describes it here.

“Our lived experience council is basically the Thompson Model. It’s for delivering the services to the people who are unsheltered and homeless. It’s a decision making process that puts control of these services into the hands of the people who have experienced homelessness.”

The lived experience circle provides advice on decisions being made for those that are unsheltered in Thompson based on what services worked for them and what they would have liked.

Find out more about it under Reaching Home on the City of Thompson’s website at thompson.ca.