Prince Albert’s Community Safety and Well-Being (CSWB) manager Anna Dinsdale says the city is moving from simply “keeping the lights on” for crisis services toward a longer-term strategy to keep residents from cycling through shelters, police cells, and emergency rooms.

In an interview with the Daily Herald, Dinsdale said her team has spent much of the past two years filling critical gaps, like finding a location for the city’s new emergency shelter and building a complex needs stabilization facility, and is now turning its attention to prevention, housing access, and data collection.

“The goal is to make sure people aren’t just cycling through crisis services,” Dinsdale said. “We need solutions that keep them stable in the long term.”

Dinsdale said her office is finalizing baseline dat

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