A new community support hub opened at Winnipeg's Millennium Library on Friday, nearly a year after the library's previous Community Connections space was shuttered due to lack of funding in the city's 2025 budget.

Revamped as the Downtown Resource Corner — a joint effort of the provincial government and the Downtown Community Safety Partnership — the space will once again provide Winnipeggers with mental health and social service supports, alongside other essential services, the province said in a news release .

Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine said the province is "responding to a gap that we saw" in a space community members were already using to access support services.

"Folks are already coming here. We need to be able to respond and meet people where they're at," Fontaine sai

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