Safety and well-being. Our community is healthy, safe, and strong.

Goal

Improve access to supports for priority populations to narrow gaps in equity.

Objectives

  • Advocate for provincial funding to recognize our city as a regional hub to enhance health and social services to meet our community’s needs.
  • Support harm reduction by decriminalizing people who use drugs.
  • Create opportunities for equitable access to affordable recreation, culture, transportation, and quality health care across the continuum.

Goal

Enhance safety and well-being at the community level through climate action and environmental design.

Objectives

  • Deliver public education on climate action and climate resilience opportunities as identified in the Net Zero Strategy.
  • Implement action plans to advance crime prevention through environmental design.
  • Promote and enable neighbourhood beautification.

Goal

Create and maintain strong neighbourhoods and Indigenized spaces where people connect and engage.

Objectives

  • Encourage and support residents to implement initiatives that connect neighbourhoods.
  • Provide opportunities for the Indigenous community to design and create Indigenized spaces.
  • Facilitate consistent accessible programming for lively community spaces.

Key performance indicators

  1. Citizen Satisfaction Survey: Increase in positive responses re: Sense of community within my neighbourhood.

  2. Citizen Satisfaction Survey: Increase in positive responses re: I have strong sense of belonging to Thunder Bay.

  3. Citizen Satisfaction Survey: Increase in positive responses re: Sense of overall safety.

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