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Rachel Wunder

Community Art: A Roadmap for Human Connection The Tile Project

Rachel Wunder June 1, 2011

Walking past The Working Centre in downtown Kitchener you may not notice the art installation on the Charles Street side of the building amidst the construction that is transforming our roadways and city blocks. Fixtures that were once new gradually become unnoticed as we keep our city in a constant state of flux. Buildings and roadways are brought forward from the past to be changed or altered in response to shifting social dynamics and needs, so as we navigate our journeys in these engineered landscapes, we must ensure that the projects that keep our communities enriched and connected do not become fragmented or forgotten.

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The Integrated Circle of Care is a fluid and collaborative approach followed by workers from different agencies weaving through St. John’s Kitchen. Within this approach, staff members from each agency are aware of their specific personal roles. However, the high level of collaboration between workers means that people can approach any worker, without knowing their agency association or specific role, and still receive support – either that worker will support the person directly, or they will introduce the person to another worker who can support the person more appropriately.

This approach makes relationships more natural and support more accessible. Workers from different agencies are easily approachable, meaning that people build relationships with multiple workers. Having relationships with different workers is important to a person’s support – it makes support from a trusted source easy to find, and means that people have a choice of worker to approach in any given situation.

In order to maintain a circle of care around a person, workers from different agencies ask for consent from the person for information to be shared between workers. Continuous communication between workers helps to ensure that people do not fall into gaps between services, and also that services are not duplicated.

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