Nfld video on mental illness: "You are not alone…we can change the system" #timeforchange http://t.co/no7EPigpYf pic.twitter.com/MjXSnTzudA

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Nanaimo Brain Injury Society http://t.co/7F3J2anOL2 #nanaimo http://t.co/IU7PBY1Xqa pic.twitter.com/ZFuNXuuKQy

— peoplefirstradio (@peoplefirstrad) October 20, 2014

Despite the global recession, homelessness in cities around the world is falling. Can a controversial strategy to give homeless people a roof first – that is, before addressing drug abuse or mental health – take the credit?

At a soup kitchen in Detroit, a former crack addict in a wheelchair is explaining how he lost his legs. “They were amputated in 2000 because I had frostbite from sleeping on the streets,” says Clayton, 54. Fourteen years on from becoming a double amputee, Clayton is still homeless in his home town, but he’s been off drugs for more than a decade, and remains remarkably sanguine about his plight.   Read the rest of this story at The Guardian…

Canada World Youth @cwyjcm group visits @CHLYRadio in #Nanaimo with Simon Schachner http://t.co/khMh1kgpep pic.twitter.com/JuGzDd63mJ

— peoplefirstradio (@peoplefirstrad) October 18, 2014

A year after Vancouver declares mental health crisis, cases continue to climb http://t.co/cILJMLA4A9 pic.twitter.com/XOdff3Rc1q

— peoplefirstradio (@peoplefirstrad) October 18, 2014

Church officials struggle to assist those with mental illness, lack training http://t.co/XiV3HuxJXg pic.twitter.com/xZE7JQkEVH

— peoplefirstradio (@peoplefirstrad) October 18, 2014