Hi there,
Thank you for joining us on the MGR community of practice call. On this call, we heard Barb Fedy and Christine MacDonald from Grey Bruce County share their Community Safety and Well-being Plan and discuss with the group how these can inform and interconnect with Poverty Reduction Strategies.
Main Points:
- Though these plans are specific to the Ontario framework, there are synergies across provinces on safety and well-being mandates
- Many participants reported work on Community Safety and Well-being Plans has been paused due to COVID and diversion of resources, and many are in the early stages of picking this work back up as it aligns with COVID recovery efforts - these connections have become more obvious; moving forward if moving towards recovery
- These plans connect with a number of intersecting areas including poverty, diversity, discrimination, decriminalization. safe cities - the right to feel safe and to be safe
- The plans create opportunity to leverage resources and look at existing tables (such as poverty task force) as the key pillars are linked; coordination of these resources is key
- Community engagement in the process means priorities are as defined by the communities themselves;
- Priority areas for action revealed in Grey Bruce (pre-COVID) - Addiction and Substance Use, Mental Health, Crime Prevention, Housing and Homelessness, Poverty and Income (a second post-COVID survey will be launched shortly)
Resources from the Call
Next Call
Our next meeting is tentatively scheduled for May 24th at 1PM ET.
Topic: Women and Gender Equity Strategies.
Upcoming Learning Opportunities
Private webinar - The City of Vancouver's Equity Framework on April 20th (reach out if you haven't received this invite)
For an up to date listing of public webinars, visit Tamarack's Events Page
Register for The End of Poverty Summit May 5th-6th
Best,
Elle and the Cities Reducing Poverty Team