Framework for Planning community safety and well-being

1. 31, March, 2014 Ontario Working Group on Collaborative, Risk-Driven Community Safety Framework for Planning community safety and well-being

2. Planningframework Collaboration Emergency responders Other acute care services Community Planning for Safety & Wellbeing Social services Health unit Businesses Schools Citizens Calls for service Complaints received Numbers of disciplinary interventions Landlords, property managers Vulnerable groups Places at risk Prevention ER visits Victimization rates Access to, and confidence in social supports Immediate response to urgent incident 4 Situations of Risk Social assis- tance rates High school completion Health status Employment Persons or places Types of risks Agencies that should intervene Disorder, crime trends Vulnerable populations Community assets Places Safety Participation rates Fear of harm Mitigating elevated risk situations 3 Calls for service Types of occurrences Victimization Health Economic indicators Competence to solve problems Information- sharing Emergency response Reducing identified risks 2 Promoting and maintaining community safety and well-being 1 Risk intervention 4 Chapters Social development Performance measures

3. 5 planning principles: • Municipal mandate: • Highest priority • Leadership • Accountability Commitment at highest level • Outcomes: • All sectors • Monitored • Shared • Community-wide: • Multi-sectoral • Multi-disciplinary • Shared responsibility Measureable outcomes Collaborative Risk- focused Asset- based • Greatest needs, risks: • Individual • Family • Neighbourhood • Asset inventory: • Neighbours • Community organizations • Service providers

4. Planning 1. Women and children at risk of domestic violence 5. Specify tasks 6. Measure 2. Informed, engaged and mobilized social networks 4. Benchmark objectives Strategies 2. Identify risk factors Outcomes 3. Increase public awareness of risks, roles and responsibilities 3. Select protective factors 4a. Teach The Fourth R in all grade-9s 1. Identify vulnerable groups 4b. Implement Neighbours, Friends and Family in 3 marginalized neighbourhoods Priorities

5. Safety & Well-being Working Group Performance measures: • Calls for service? • Imminent threats? • Who should plan? • How can we improve response? 4 • Greatest risks of victimization? • Where? • Pre-emptive intervention? • Which organizations? Demographics Local economy Civic engagement Personal financial security Affordable, appropriate housing Personal, community health Natural environment Personal safety Employment Education Traffic hazards School deportment Environmental design Health, safety in food chain Special protections for vulnerable populations Substandard housing Retail theft 3 Risk types Severity Vulnerable groups Frequency Referrals Call priorities Hospital wait time Clearance rates Repeat calls • What safety hazards can we prevent? • What measures? • Who should implement them? 2 1 • What creates risks? • How can we avoid them? • Who should do that? 1 task group for each chapter

6. Vulnerable Group Children Youth Retailers • Risk Factors • Negative parenting • Domestic violence • Poverty • Education not valued • Protective Factors • School attendance • Family supports • Peer supports • Education valued Priorities “Truancy” Reduce truancy Reduce truancy Reduce truancy Reduce truancy Outcomes Reduce daytime theft, drug use Increase educa- tional outcomes Reduce daytime thefts and drug use Reduce related problems: drugs, theft Value education Improve student successes Enforce school attendance Target-harden stores Establish truancy threshold Counsel youth Strategies Educate parents Enforce against shop lifting, drugs Promote educa- tion Mount multi- agency inter- vention Access social services Drug awareness • Competence : • social • educational • Nos. of youth • apprehended • truancy • theft • drugs Youth supports Parent supports Social supports School supports Shop lifting Measures Drug use High school retention High school retention

7. Risk Factors • Negative parenting • Domestic violence • Social isolation • Stress factors • Protective Factors • Social networks • Family supports • Recovery supports • Physicians screening Vulnerable Group Children, youth and families;persons with mental illness Priorities “Mental health and addictions” Less stressed children, youth More physician screening Shorten ER res- ponse times Reduce ER visits Outcomes Reduce drug re- lated problems Stronger social networks More access to treatment Increase access to qualified workers Reduce family crises Improved mental health Increased youth recreation Provide advo- cacy for addicts Ident. addictions mental health thresholds Strategies Link physicians and treatment Parenting educ. Youth mentoring Develop Crisis Response Team Recreation for youth Health promo- tion Multi-agency interventions Time in ER Access to treat- ment Physician refer- rals to treatment Quality of life Measures Access to treatment Stress levels Family supports Treatment en- rollments Affiliation rates De-escalation of ER stressors

8. For each safety and well-being priority, decide and designate: • Vulnerable groups • Risk factors • Protective factors Getting started: Obtain the highest level directive and authority to do the Plan for Community Safety and Well-being (Principle #1) Assemble the Community Safety and Well-being Plan: • Ensure that: • each quadrant of the plan, for each priority, is achievable • the right agencies and actors are designated for each strategy • the outcomes are benchmarked and responsibilities for measurement are in place (Principle #5: Measure outcomes) Recruit appropriate agencies, executives and citizens to join the Safety and Well-being Working Group (Principle #2) Commitment at highest level Select, recruit and instruct a small number of key individuals to lead a task group for each level in the community safety and well-being planning framework: (Principle #4) First job of the Working Group is to determine the community’s safety and well-being priorities: (Principle #3) • Select them for their knowledge, experience, and access to information on the chosen priorities • Charge them to develop • Outcomes • Strategies • Measures • for each priority in their planning quadrant • Immediate response to urgent incident • Mitigating elevated risk situations • Reducing identified risks • Promoting and maintaining community • safety & well-being Consult with: police and other first responders (fire, emergency medical) acute care agencies and organizations (child welfare, mental health, womens’ support) social development organizations (schools, social services, seniors’ homes) business leaders and employers citizens, neighbourhood groups Measureable outcomes Collaborative • Insert implementation guidelines • who’s doing what, when, at each level • who’s reporting to whom, when • how, when, will the local authority receive progress reports • when will a final report on plan success be issued Risk- focused Asset- based • Designate date of the next planning cycle for safety and well-being

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