What is a Community Safety and Well-Being Plan?

The Community Safety and Well-Being Plan(External link) is a collective impact plan that addresses the local risks to safety and well-being at the community level and proposes both priorities as well as action items to be undertaken by various governments, institutions, groups, and agencies who are working together in order to mitigate those risks. The Plan considers long-term, multi-disciplinary efforts and investments to improve the social determinants of health, such as the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age such as education, early childhood development, food security, quality housing, and so on, and thereby reduce the probability of crime, social disorder, and ill-health. Appendix 1 provides definitions of these and other terms used through the Plan.