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By Susan McNeil

Mobile Crisis expands

$750,000 funding boost for emergency mobile crisis in Prince Albert and Melfort

Mar 12, 2025 | 12:00 PM

A new agreement between the Mobile Crisis Unit Co-operative and the Province of Saskatchewan’s Social Services Ministry is planned to help families who need emergency intervention.

The service will include Prince Albert and Melfort and make sure ‘intensive in-home support programs are available’.

“We are expanding prevention and intervention services to the Prince Albert and Melfort areas to help keep children and families together when they are experiencing a crisis,” Social Services Minister Terry Jenson said in a news release.

“Services like these focus on strengthening and supporting families during crisis situations to decrease the likelihood of children having to come into care or minimizing the time that they are in care.”

Help will be available 24-7 and include family support that lowers risk to children, cultural programming and knowledge and referrals to other services in the community.

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“This type of program is going to create a progressive, client-centric experience that offers support in the comfort of their own space,” Prince Albert Mobile Crisis Unit Co-operative’s Executive Director Vicki Stewart said. “This is something that has not been available in Prince Albert before.”

Prince Albert Mobile Crisis Unit Co-operative is a non-profit organization that provides responsive and culturally appropriate crisis intervention services. Working alongside emergency services, they provide frontline, emergent support and connections to ongoing services for people when experiencing a crisis.

The partnership meets the 2024-2025 provincial budget commitment to expand the support to places where it doesn’t exist.

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