Mental health continues to be a big issue within our society today, and COVID-19 has taken a mental toll on everyone. There has been an increasing number of homeless people in Winnipeg because of the virus not allowing people to work or stay in shelter homes. 

In this episode of In Focus by U Multicultural, Mark Aaron sat down with the Executive Director of Sscope Inc, Angela McCaughan. A non-profit since 1991, Sscope is a registered charity that employs people living with a mental health illness through their environmentally friendly social enterprise ventures. They provide training, casual and part-time employment through their diverse green business stream to those overcoming and managing a mental illness.

Sscope offers unique, valuable and affordable services to the community by providing gainful casual employment. This renders an avenue for member employees to integrate into the mainstream workforce. Their business reduces the overall cost of health care by providing non-medical rehabilitation for individuals living with mental illness while at the same time increasing the productive workforce. They offer many types of different services such as working in a thrift store as a store associate. As well as more labour-intensive work such as  lawn & yard care, snow clearing and moving & deliveries.   

If you know someone whos struggling to find a job because of mental issues or is homeless and needs to find a job visit https://www.sscope.org/ for more details. 

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