Community Safety and Well-Being Plan

Local Priorities

Community partners identified six local priorities for further investigation and collaboration that are included in Hamilton’s Community Safety and Well-Being Plan. These priorities are:

• hate incidents
• violence
• mental health and stigmatization
• substance use*
• homelessness and access to affordable housing
• access to income

*Community engagement and service collaboration is happening through Hamilton’s Drug Strategy.

Balanced Approach

Community Safety and Well-Being plans support safe and healthy communities through a community-based approach to address root causes of complex social issues. Planning seeks to achieve a proactive, balanced and collaborative approach to community safety and well-being across four key areas:

• Social Development - promoting and maintaining community safety and well-being
• Prevention - Proactivity reducing identified risks.
• Risk Intervention - Mitigating situations of elevated risk.
• Incident Response - Critical and non-critical incident response.

Hamilton’s Community Safety and Well-Being Plan development is overseen by an advisory committee which both meets legislative requirements and brings together various sectors’ perspectives to provide strategic advice and direction to the City on the development and implementation of the plan.