The vision of No Community Left Behind is to keep people well; to enable them to live, work, and raise their families in a safe and prosperous environment.

This vision is achieved through:

- Developing a comprehensive community-based strategy for addressing social determinants of health, while working to address major risk factors that lead to fear, isolation and crime;
Mobilizing community members and service providers to assist each other in addressing the community identified and prioritized problems;

- Assisting concerned service agencies to respond to social/community/health service needs; and
Engaging and supporting community members to participate more fully in neighbourhood planning and decision making processes.

Determinants of health are addressed at the neighbourhood level. The positive outcomes of this initiative highlight the impact of holistic community based initiative that include multiple partnerships and a balance between broad based and neighbourhood specific planning.

The pilot phase of NCLB was successfully completed in Banff Avenue community in 2006.

Since August 1, 2006, the program has been extended to 8 neighbuoring communities in Albion-Heatherington, Heather Manor, Confederation Court, Russell Heights, Blair Court, Fairlea, Ashgrove, Shearwater.

No Community Left Behind was launched in 2005 as a social development initiative with the objective to prevent crime and address social determinants of health through a collaborative approach and integration of services at the neighbourhood level.

Over the past ten years, No Community Left Behind has become a strategy development process at the neighbourhood level in which community development specialists, community policing professionals and neighbourhood activists and almost all concerned service providers collaborate to address factors that lead to communities’ vulnerability, crime, victimization, fear of safety, and social exclusion.

The NCLB strategy development process leads to strategic action vis-a-vis community development, community-partners engagement, exploring opportunities for local development and adopting new ways to building stronger, healthier and safer communities.

Working in close partnership with various other agencies, South East Ottawa Community Health Centre (SEOCHC) has effectively engaged and supported communities to restore their sense of safety and pave the way for effective service delivery. NCLB has now become a core component of the City of Ottawa’s Community Development Framework (CDF) for community engagement at the grassroots level.

In the South East Ottawa, the program was initially funded by National Crime Prevention Centre. Later, United Way provided funding for coordination and program support until 2011. Crime Prevention Ottawa also provided generous support in the initial implementation of the NCLB approach. Currently the funding for activities is supported through the Community Development Framework allocations process. Ottawa Police, Ottawa Community Housing (OCH) Tenants and Community Workers (TCWs) of South District and Community House Directors continue to work closely with the staff assigned to this initiative. There are many other partners engaged in the NCLB process.