City shares plan for a safer and more equitable Edmonton
- A proposed Framework containing seven pillars that sets the focus of measurable actions, investments and partnerships to achieve the City’s short, medium and long-term outcomes.
- Anti-racism: The active, ongoing strategy and process that seeks to identify and eliminate racism by changing systems, institutions, policies and attitudes that perpetuate racism.
- Reconciliation: An ongoing journey and commitment to establishing and maintaining mutually respectful relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. This includes awareness of the past, acknowledgment of the harm that has been inflicted, atonement for the causes, and action to change behaviour.
- Safe and Inclusive Spaces: City programs, services and planning contribute to the creation of safe spaces and social trust. This can include responses such as creating, reviewing, amending and repealing bylaws and policies, investing in safety of infrastructure, changing social norms, and ensuring evidence-based models are used to provide appropriate support.
- Equitable Policies, Procedures, Standards and Guidelines: The design and delivery of fair and equitable policies, programs and services that facilitate the full participation of all people.
- Pathways In and Out of Poverty: Using levers of advocacy, policy, funding and community-driven interventions to change the conditions that contribute to and perpetuate poverty in our city.
- Crime Prevention and Crime Intervention: Appropriate and balanced responses to community needs in the enforcement and crisis diversion ecosystem.
- Well-being: A complex mix of variables and factors that contribute to pimâtisiwin—’a good life’, and a sense of balance and connection to self, body, land, culture, community, human development and spirit.
- A community conversations approach for working with members of the Edmonton community to identify priorities, potential actions or investment opportunities.
- More than 80 individuals across various organizations were consulted during the development of the Community Safety and Well-Being Framework.
- Conversations with the community will continue to inform the Framework, and insights gathered will be included in a repository of CSWB research and engagement data that will support the City in taking evidence-based and informed action.