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2. Safe Communities around the world are based on:Two PrinciplesA safe life is a basic right for every citizen Safety is the responsibility of every citizen “Accidents” are predictable INCIDENTS The Injuries they cause are PREDICTIBLE AND PREVENTABLE

3. In the Beginning Founder Paul Kells & son Sean

4. “Accidents” ??? • More children and youth, ages 1 - 20, die from preventable injuries than all other diseases combined • PREVENTABLE INJURIES kill more people than anything else up until age 44 • 60,000 young people each year, are injured seriously enough to go on worker’s compensation • Almost all the injuries were preventable • 50 of them die each year • One was Sean Kells in 1994 SEAN KELLS 1975 - 1994

5. Since then :ADecade + of Success SAFE COMMUNITIES CANADA Dedicated to making Canada the safest country in the world to live, learn, work and play 1 COMMUNITY AT A TIME THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY !

6. Crime Reduction Education Drug & Alcohol Prevention Workplace Safety Positive Early Intervention SAFE Environment Transport & Road Safety School Safety Fire & Emergency Services Home Safety Law Enforcement Public Health Safe Community Targets? IN SILOS

7. Drug & Alcohol Prevention Workplace Safety Crime Reduction Education Transport & Road Safety Positive Early Intervention School Safety SAFE Environment Home Safety Fire & Emergency Services Law Enforcement Public Health A Safe Community CHAMPION • Understands how the puzzle fits together • Supports community outreach • Enables, even facilitates their people to participate A CHAMPION • Leads • Plans • Prioritizes • Advocates • Engages • Results • Leaves a Legacy COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

8. WHAT IS THE VALUE OFA SAFE COMMUNITY ? • Personal pain and suffering reduced • A proactive statement of community values • Cost efficiencies among agencies • Loyalty, morale, & retention among employees • Savings in health care and social development • Opportunities for economic development, tourism • An investment to attract new residents & businesses • An enhanced quality of life for everyone • Community Pride as a “Designated Safe Community”

9. Approximately 23% of Canada’s population live in a Safe Community across 8 provinces and 1 territory

10. Lessons learned for Community Capacity Building • Keep it simple • Understand the difference YOU want to make • Find your LOCAL rallying cry • One step at a time • Realistic expectations • It’s about people and passion, not just numbers • Find friends and champions for support • Focus on the outcomes • Measure it to ensure it is helping • Share and celebrate each success • ENJOY BEING A “Designated Safe Community”

11. MINISTRY OF HEALTH PROMOTION Sponsor of A COMMUNITY BASED INJURY PREVENTION PROGRAM A Partnership between Safe Communities Canada & Ontario’s Ministry of Health Promotion

12. COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDINGCOMMUNITY INJURY PREVENTION PILOT PROGRAM

13. Embracing Our Future • COLLABORATION, COLLABORATION, COLLABORATION • Enhanced Fire & Life Safety Prevention Programming • Increased interaction with NGO Community Partners • Communities engaging & taking a Personal interest in Community Safety and Community Wellness • A new HEP model (HEALTH, EDUCATION & POLICING) partnership to build POSITIVE relationships with Youth • Champion Community Safety with Youth to demonstrate that they have an invaluable role to play & their future matters

14. Embracing Our Future October 2007 Speech from the Throne: A promise to protect Canadians’ “Right to Safety & Security & Pursue a Safe Communities Strategy” • Priorizing Prevention, Crime Avoidance & Reduced Fear of Crime • Advocating that Safer & Healthier Communities are Key to our Quality of Life • Promoting a Future That Offers…HOPE • Visioning a Safer & Healthier Community and a Safer & Healthier & Stronger Canada • Accepting nothing less than an enhanced Quality of Life FOR ALL RESIDENTS AND VISITORS

15. DEFINING COMMUNITY SAFETY, HEALTH & WELL BEING CRIME PREVENTION+ CRIME REDUCTION • PREVENT CRIMES, INJURIES & FATALATIES • REDUCE OPPORTUNITIES FOR VICTIMIZATION, • INCREASE RISK OF APPREHENSION, • REDUCE RECIDIVISM CHANGE CONDITIONS • RISK TAKING BEHAVIOUR, • POVERTY & AFFORDABLE HOUSING, • EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, SCHOOL RETENTION, • UNEMPLOYMENT, • INVOLVE YOUTH AND RESPECT THEIR VIEWS, • PARENTAL HEALTH & POSITIVE PARENTING PROGRAMMING • TREATMENT FOR MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTIONS • PROMOTE POSITIVE SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR • PRIORIZE PREVENTION OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE, DOMESTIC, SEXUAL & CHILD ABUSE, • ACCESS TO LITERACY • AFFORDABLE RECREATION

16. As Everything in Life Changes • So Must Our Approach to our lifestyles…. • Our Emergency Services are Changing…. • Our Communities Are Changing…. • Bottom Line – We Cannot rest on the present • We Must Work Together for the Future Inclusive Partnerships = A Team “A Formula for SUCCESS”

17. As Changes Occur “In times of change, it will be thelearnersamong us who will inherit the earth, while thelearnedwill carry on being beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists” • Leading Progressive Change in partnership withour communities is the way of the future IF NOT US, ………...….THEN WHO……...? IF NOT NOW,…………..THEN WHEN…….? IF NOT RIGHT NOW.....THEN WHY NOT ?

18. SAFE COMMUNITIESTAKING IN THE PAST NOW COMMUNITY WELL BEING MORE OWNERSHIP FEDERAL H E P SAFE COMMUNITY PROVINCIAL TERRITORIAL MUNICIPAL Engaged Communities SAFE COMMUNITIES H E P MODEL

19. ROLE MODELS ? • ENRON SCANDAL • ADSCAM • ABUSE BY CLERGY & DOCTORS • AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT & AN INTERN • THE GOMERY INQUIRY • PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT SCANDALS • ETHICAL DECISION MAKING vs CORRUPTION • MISCONDUCT INVOLVING POLICE, TEACHERS, AND VIRTUALLY ALL PROFESSIONS WE NEED TODISPLAY POSITIVE COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AND RESTORE CONFIDENCE IN PUBLIC AUTHORITY YOUTH LEARN ONLY 20% FROM WHAT WE TELL THEM BUT 80%FROM WITNESSING OUR BEHAVIOUR

20. Everyonein the community can be a Safe CommunityChampion POLICECOACHESNEIGHBORSEMPLOYERSFRIENDSGRANDPARENTSPEERSMOMSANDDADSTEACHERSEVERYONEINANYCOMMUNITYCANBEASAFECOMMUNITYCHAMPIONBBEINTENTIONALANDTAKEALEADERSHIPROLE

21. CIRCLES OF INFLUENCE MOMS DADS RECREATION PARKS & HEALTH COACHES EMPLOYERS POLITICIANS NGO’s SPONSORS CORPORATE

22. ASSET BUILDING CHAMPIONS YOUTH ARE 20% OF OUR POPULATION & 100% of THE future Each one of us has the ability to make a difference START TODAY !

23. Catching Kids Doing It Right OUR ATTITUDES MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE

24. POSITIVE RESULTS FOR KIDS

25. Strategic Plans Communities should proudly Declare Youth are a PRIORITY (THEY ARE A SIGNIFICANT PART OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND OUR FUTURE) VISION: To become the Best Place in North America to raise Children & Youth in the Safest & Healthiest community in which to live, learn, work & Play

26. Some of our Partners for Safer & Healthier Communities

27. SAFE COMMUNITIES CANADA - SPONSORS Safe Communities Canada acknowledges with gratitude the support of our corporate and institutional partners. Our organization, however, works to fulfill its mandate with complete independence from our supporters, each of whom knows that the Board of Directors and Management will at all times function professionally, responsibly, and ethically. 

28. OUR FUTURE HOPE VISION “To make Our Communities, the Safest & Healthiest Places in which to live, learn, work & play in Canada” Through new Safe Communities partnerships, working together, to enhance our communities so that all children, youth, adults, seniors, vulnerable persons & visitors are safe & healthy and are valued by all.

29. Safe Kids + Safe Families + Safe Homes + Safe Neighborhoods + Safe Streets + Safe Schools= Safe Communities We need to work together, integrated as Partners for a Safer & Healthier CANADA www.safecommunities.ca

30. SAFE COMMUNITIES CANADA • Dedicated to makingCanada • the safest country in the world • to live, learn, work and play… one community at a time

31. IMAGINE ... • Watching a loved one die as a result of a preventable injury • Feelings of helplessness • Agony & grief • Long term suffering • Cost to our health care system • Needless, predictable and preventable repeat occurrences

32. Every day 3 people die on the job. These are just two of them… David Ellis, 18 years old –crushed in an industrial dough maker. Tim Hickman, 20 years old –died from third degree burns from a workplace explosion.

33. Every day… • Over 3,200 people suffer from workplace injuries Every year … • Provincial Workers’ Compensation Boards pay more than $5 billionin benefits

34. INJURIES ARE CAUSED BYincidentsNOT ACCIDENTS... • Injuries are predictable and preventable! • They do not have to happen!

35. SAFE COMMUNITIES CANADAOUR MISSION: To help people come together in their own communities to create a sense of…… • awareness • understanding • support & • leadership • Enable communities to implement effective local programs, eliminate injuries and suffering to change behavior and to be safer & healthier

36. SAFE COMMUNITIES CANADA FOUNDATION • Launched on April 23, 1996with Brockville as Canada’s First “Designated Safe Community”. • Partnership between public and private sectors • Networking at the grassroots and national levels • Every dollar spent on Safe Communities saves society $40 ! (Source: World Health Organization) World Health OrganizationDesignations (6) • Brockville 2001 • Rainy River 2002 • Sault Ste Marie 2003 • Calgary 2003 • Woods Buffalo 2005 • Brampton 2007

37. Safe Communities Canada 53 Canadian Communities Have Become “DESIGNATED Safe Communities”

38. Ontario (25) Ajax-Pickering Greater Belleville Brantford and Brant County Brockville, Leeds & Grenville Cambridge Chatham-Kent Dufferin Hamilton Kingston Kitchener-Waterloo Lambton County London M’Chigeeng First Nations Muskoka Orillia & District Owen Sound & District Ottawa Perth & District Greater Peterborough Rainy River Valley Sault Ste.Marie Smiths Falls Thunder Bay Timmins & District Welland Safe Communities Canada

39. Safe Communities Canada • BC - Richmond & Kamloops • AB - Calgary, • SK - Prince Albert • MB - Brandon • NS - Annapolis Valley, Halifax & South Shore • NL - Avalon East • NWT, NB, PQ, PEI • + 24 others preparing

40. Safe Communities Canada (Ontario) MHP & SCC Community Injury Prevention Project CANDIDATESAFE COMMUNITIES PORT COLBORNE MIDLAND KAWARTHA LAKES TILLSONBURG COLLINGWOOD

41. WHY Safe Communities ? • To save lives • To prevent injuries & suffering • To reduce costs & enhance access to health care in our communities • To improve the economic viability of businesses & our communities

42. WHY Safe Communities ? • To promote safety as an attitude, and behavior, not an action • To get Canadians working together as “Partners for Safer and Healthier Communities” • To create a better life for our children & youth who are 20% of our population, but 100% of our future

43. SAFE COMMUNITIES WHAT CAN COMMUNITY LEADERS DO ?

44. Mobilize your community! • Invite key people in your community to endorse and support proactive safety projects… • Mayor, Police Chief, Fire Chief, Health Unit,Hospital& business leaders, educators,NGO’s, YMCA, Youth,Seniors,Volunteers, Red Cross, St John Ambulance, Salvation Army, Victims Services, Social Services • Chamber of Commerce, Service Clubs, Industry, Local Business H & S professionals & Trade Associations • Child mental health, public safety, SPCA, domestic violence, sexual assault & child abuse organizations • Mobilize YOUR Safe Community networkof community leaders, champions and organizations … • Engage the local media !

45. ATTRIBUTES of a community, fundamental to successful community-based prevention efforts • These ATTRIBUTES include: • Leadership - Co Chairs & leadership table focused on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion; • Knowledge of local causes and problem's) through a Priority Setting Exercise; • Sustainability and capacity; • Widespread Community Engagement;

46. MOTIVATE YOUR COMMUNITY to ignite the Spark! • Capture the emotional element: personal, school, traffic, winter, water, rail, community safety • Capitalize on recent successful injury prevention programs • Promote the network & seek support from other Safe Communities • Recruit Safety Champions from your local Community LEADERS • Get the facts on your community…(Inventory of Safety Programs) • Confirm what’s happening and what’s not…. in Injury Prevention • Set your own LOCAL priorities….. identify, then fill the gaps

47. TEN Steps Core LeadershipTEAM…….. • Community presentation and seek agreement to move forward • Confirm Terms of Reference and Select Co-Chairs • Gather Community statistics and select primary causes as targets • Compile a Community Inventory of Safety Programs • Community Priority Setting Exercise • Select proactive programs to meet your local needs based on “priorities” agreed on by you community • Build in evaluation with measurable goals and objectives • Develop a Community Action Plan • Initiate your programs • Plan for sustainability Strive to become a W.H.O. “DESIGNATED SAFE COMMUNITY!”

48. Police Services Fire Departments City Council Health Unit Hospitals Social Services School Boards Universities and Colleges St John Ambulance Red Cross YMCA YOUTH Sponsors, volunteers Health & safety professionals Small & large businesses VCARS, Abuse agencies WSIB / OSSA Community NGO Groups Health & Safety organizations Recreation & Parks Neighbors Families SENIORS & many more TEAMWORKRequires everyone in YOUR Community…

49. HOW SAFE COMMUNITIES CANADA HELPS • Ongoing support & mentoring to Safe Communities via Teleconferences • Provides resources and information via Web Site • Provides “SEED” Financial support for start-up • Hosts an annual, national Safe Communities Canada Conference • Organizes regional forums for communities to share information • Creates opportunities to network with health and safety partners

50. TOGETHER…WE CAN ALLMAKE A DIFFERENCE! Working together as “Partners for Safer and Healthier Communities” We can help make Canada the Safest Country in which Everyone can Live, Learn, Work and Play