Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan

The City of Victoria is developing a Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan. Once complete, the Plan will identify actions for the City, in collaboration with multi-sector partners, to help make the community safer and more inclusive for everyone.


Next Step

Input from surveys, open houses/pop-ups, community dialogues and Muflehun’s comparator data will help inform the draft Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan’s recommended actions that will be presented to City Council for consideration this fall.


Public Engagement Activities

The Community Safety and Wellbeing survey closed on May 12, 2024. Thank you those who participated.

In addition to the survey and a series of open houses/pop-ups held in June and July 2024, the City worked with local facilitators who reached out to close to 40 local organizations to create safe and supported dialogues about wellbeing and safety.

Community conversations are also being held with members of the Songhees Nation, the Esquimalt Nation and local Indigenous organizations and the communities they serve.

Individuals who work within an organization, sector or system in Victoria were invited to complete a survey designed to assess perspectives on systemic challenges and changes that would help foster community safety and wellbeing.

“This public engagement will help us understand people’s thoughts, feelings, perceptions and opinions about wellbeing and safety, and encourage them to share their ideas on possible solutions. Our Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan will include strategies to enhance the quality of life for our community – residents housed and unhoused, businesses, non-profits, workers of all kinds – to create a community that is safe and inclusive for everyone. The Plan will tackle a range of social issues, embracing an array of solutions.” - Mayor Marianne Alto


Background

In August 2023, an 11-member Community Leaders Panel was convened by Mayor Alto to guide the draft Plan’s development and includes Indigenous, business, public health, housing, law enforcement, fire prevention, local service provider and neighbourhood leaders.

To help inform Victoria’s Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan, Muflehun, a resource centre that conducts research and analysis of current hate and extremism challenges, is deriving data from a variety of Canadian sources to compare data on crime, safety and hate in six communities to create comparators for local data.


The City of Victoria is developing a Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan. Once complete, the Plan will identify actions for the City, in collaboration with multi-sector partners, to help make the community safer and more inclusive for everyone.


Next Step

Input from surveys, open houses/pop-ups, community dialogues and Muflehun’s comparator data will help inform the draft Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan’s recommended actions that will be presented to City Council for consideration this fall.


Public Engagement Activities

The Community Safety and Wellbeing survey closed on May 12, 2024. Thank you those who participated.

In addition to the survey and a series of open houses/pop-ups held in June and July 2024, the City worked with local facilitators who reached out to close to 40 local organizations to create safe and supported dialogues about wellbeing and safety.

Community conversations are also being held with members of the Songhees Nation, the Esquimalt Nation and local Indigenous organizations and the communities they serve.

Individuals who work within an organization, sector or system in Victoria were invited to complete a survey designed to assess perspectives on systemic challenges and changes that would help foster community safety and wellbeing.

“This public engagement will help us understand people’s thoughts, feelings, perceptions and opinions about wellbeing and safety, and encourage them to share their ideas on possible solutions. Our Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan will include strategies to enhance the quality of life for our community – residents housed and unhoused, businesses, non-profits, workers of all kinds – to create a community that is safe and inclusive for everyone. The Plan will tackle a range of social issues, embracing an array of solutions.” - Mayor Marianne Alto


Background

In August 2023, an 11-member Community Leaders Panel was convened by Mayor Alto to guide the draft Plan’s development and includes Indigenous, business, public health, housing, law enforcement, fire prevention, local service provider and neighbourhood leaders.

To help inform Victoria’s Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan, Muflehun, a resource centre that conducts research and analysis of current hate and extremism challenges, is deriving data from a variety of Canadian sources to compare data on crime, safety and hate in six communities to create comparators for local data.


Page last updated: 01 Oct 2024, 02:03 PM