Kingston city council approves temporary funding for ICH, provincial funding uncertain – Kingston [Video]

Community members are awaiting a response from the province regarding a renewal of funding for the Kingston-based Integrated Care Hub (ICH).

The facility, near Belle Park, is being funded temporarily by the province until the end of June this year. But as Carol Ravnaas, with the addictions and mental health services unit at KFL&A Public Health, put it at a council meeting on Tuesday night, if there isn’t a renewal of funding then the hub will have to wind down.

That’s why the city approved temporary funding for the ICH, with $500,000 going to support the facility for another few months.

“We don’t know that we are going to replenish it again,” Coun. Gregory Ridge said. “This was a decision that was made on a one-time basis due to the fact that the province has not yet made a decision about their funding.”

The hub had previously received $2.3 million in funding from the …