Community Safety and Well-being Strategy: Partner Information Hub

Safety and well-being is a collective responsibility of individuals, communities, non-profit agencies, educational bodies, Edmonton Police Service, businesses and all orders of government. It is only through working together can we achieve our goal of a more inclusive, equitable, compassionate, resilient and welcoming community for all.

The City alone does not have all the answers and must engage partners to develop solutions. Community voice, partnership and participation is critical for the success of the strategy.

The Community Collaboration Model (CCM) requires different individuals and groups getting involved and also the establishment of different types of partnerships. It is important to recognize that while each type of partnership involves different levels of time, effort, resources and trust, each type of partnership is valuable on its own merits.

The CCM describes how the City of Edmonton can work with a range of community organizations and leaders to implement the CSWB Strategy in a sustained way over coming years. It leverages existing community resources, partnerships and initiatives to drive CSWB outcomes.

The CCM includes the following components:

• System Challenges and Conditions: Amplifying efforts that shift safety and well-being challenges and inequities in Edmonton. Connecting strategic initiatives and collaborative tables already working on systems change and considering cross sector challenges (data, evaluation, funding and others).
• Discovery and Development: Collaborating with others and convening inclusive spaces across sectors, with a focus on learning that leads to action and systems change. A focus on innovation and problem solving to reflect emerging needs of the CSWB ecosystem, including those with lived and living experience.
• Secretariat: The City acts as a backbone to the CCM, supporting connections between partners, activities and sectors. The City helps share information, convene, coordinate and translate. Working with community partners can help to ensure collaboration activities are working well.
• Partnerships, Services and Programs: Organizations and collaborative tables are active in various partnerships, service design and program delivery addressing needs and priorities across the CSWB pillars. The CCM can help connect across and amplify the ongoing and critical work.

• Person Centered: Grounded in personal experience and creating a sense of connection that will empower and uplift individuals.
• Trauma-informed: Creating change with long-term effects in alignment with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) calls to action, anti-racism and trauma-informed work to strengthen resilience.
• Equity-based: Incorporating a GBA+ approach to remove systemic barriers.
• Data-Informed: Utilizing research, analysis, knowledge and insights from Indigenous, Eastern, Western and interdisciplinary perspectives to adapt and evolve our approaches.
• Community-Driven, City-Convened: Collaboration between partners to ensure integration across systems and with supports from the City to convene, plan, coordinate, fund or execute the work.

Anti-Racism

Policies and structures are anti-racist, reconciliatory and support equity and inclusion. Individuals and communities who have experienced systemic racism and historical trauma are included, valued and respected.

Reconciliation

Edmontonians, Indigenous Peoples, and the City have authentic, interconnected relationships that honour, understand, and collaboratively integrate Indigenous experiences, histories and cultures.

Safe and Inclusive Spaces

Communities are supported and empowered to lead the cultivation and sustainment of safe, inclusive, vibrant, sustainable and resilient spaces.

Equitable Policies, Procedures

People making Edmonton home have enriched experiences through equitable access to programs, services and spaces. 

Pathways in and Out of Poverty

Edmontonians have the economic, social and cultural resources to have a quality of life that sustains and facilitates full and meaningful participation in the community.

Crime Prevention and Crisis Intervention

All people feel safe and secure throughout the city because crime has been reduced through community-collaboration and culturally appropriate approaches.

Well-Being

Edmontonians have the capacity and opportunity to pursue experiences of connection to self, body, land, arts and culture, community, human development and spirit.