Keeping people safe & well
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Planning Process
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Community needs assessment has been a continued process that started long before the approval of the No Community Left Behind Project.
A systematic attempt at assessing Banff community’s needs and safety and crime-related perceptions was made in July. A summary of the finding was presented at the first Steering Committee Meeting on August 03, 2005.
After many individual encounters with the community members, a community meeting was held on September 10, 2005. Findings and recommended activities out of this meeting were shared with all Steering Committee members. Separate meetings were held with the Community House and staff of Youth Services Bureau during this time to crystallize the ideas and proposed measure to address the problems.
For further clarity, the community-identified activities were put in a tabular format along with the proposed activities for the respective four main components of No Community Left Project for a discussion in September 20th Steering Committee Meeting.
The planning phase began with the approval of the identified activities by the Steering Community. A tentative work plan was prepared in consultation with the Community House on September 27 and shared with the TA members on September 28, 2005. Further individual meetings with community members took place on September 30. The work plan was shared with the Community House, Youth Service Bureau staff and available Tenants’ Association members on October 05, 2005 to further fine tune it.
The objective of repeated meetings with the community is to ensure their participation and consolidate their sense of ownership. For that purpose, the plan will be shared with other community members in a Lunch and Chat session on October 17 in order to finalize it in consultation and involvement of as many community members as possible.
In the meanwhile, Youth Council will be meeting on October 12, 2005 and discuss possible activities of getting other youth involved and doing youth mobilization for presenting a better image of the community. The activities the Youth Council Identify would be discussed in a final meeting with the Community House and YSB before the next Steering Committee meeting on October 25, 2005.
Activity Plan
Four major components of the project are Social Mobilization, Prevention and Empowerment,
Neighborhood Restoration and Law Enforcement. The following work plan reflect activities
under all these components.
Social Mobilization
Activities
Objective/rationale
Success indicator
Partners/Roles responsibilities
Women Exercise Club
- Provide opportunities to women to increase wellbeing through fitness;
- Provide opportunities for peer support through regular gatherings of women sharing common needs and interests;
- Ease isolation for multicultural women, single parents;
- Provide opportunities for informal discussions on topics of shared interest.
- Increase the sense of belonging and ownership for positive community changes.
- Feedback of the participants of the program
- Increase in the number of community members involved.
- Increased in the number of participants at the TA meeting due to awareness and sensitization of information discussion in these activities.
- Increase in sharing community safety and crime related information with the police.
Banff Community House
- Providing access to space.
- Facilitate contract with the instructor.
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SEOCHC:
- Financial administration of budget
- Contracts
- Data collection
- Monitoring, evaluation and reporting
TA
- Assist in registering women for the activity.
- Ensure continued participation.
- Supervision and house keeping after the activity.
TA Regular Monthly Meetings
- To identify and address community issues of concern and interest.
- Provide leadership and a forum to the community to meet and plan community development activities.
- To build capacity of its members
- Regularly plan and monitor all activities including activities under No Community Left Behind project.
- provide opportunity to service providers and other partners to drop in and update themselves about the progress in the community.
- Increase capacity for sound decision-making.
- Number of initiatives proposed, planned and undertaken by the community
- Capacity of the TA members in record keeping, accounting and management of community events
OCH
- Financial support for the TAs
- A staff person attending TA monthly meetings
SEOCHC
- providing capacity building support
- staff person attending monthly meetings
- Monitoring and reporting
TA
- Ensure regular meeting schedule
- Taking minutes and keep records
- Ensuring participation of community members
Developing Promotional materials, information flyers.
- To share available information about community’s safety and security with every household.
- Increased participation in all community development related activities
- Increased in feedback/reporting to Ottawa Police Services
SEOCHC
- Assistance in developing/ producing relevant information.
TA
- Dissemination of the available information to the community
Prevention and Empowerment
Activities
Objective/rationale
Success indicator
Partners/Roles responsibilities
After school tutoring for Youth mobilization and awareness - age 13 and older
· Provide youth an opportunity to get engaged in positive activities.
· Mobilize the youth for participation in community activities.
· Provide homework support to an age group that is not presently supported by the existing homework club.
· Prevent crime
- Participation in the tutoring classes.
- Frequency of interaction with their parents.
YSB
- YSB to take the lead.
- Look for a suitable tutoring expert for this age group.
Banff Community House
- Supervise the activities through Wendy Shaw and Mr. Umer.
- Provision of space and accommodating the schedule.
SEOCHC
- Financial administration of budget
- Contracts
- Data collection
- Monitoring, evaluation and reporting
Linking mobilization of Youth through tutoring to activities of the Youth Council for Safety and youth-image-building with the following activities:
To engaged the mobilized youth through tutoring classes with the senior youth for mentoring and joint activities.
- Number of joint activities of the younger youth with their older counterparts.
YSB
- Linking Youth Council to the youth coming for tutoring activity.
- Facilitate and Monitor re planned activities.
a) Youth Mentorship: Older youth will organize different activities for positively engaging younger youth.
To guide youth and engage them in positive activities
- Number of after school, sports, groups, homework and other activities.
YSB
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Banff Community House
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b) Community Youth survey: Asking other youth to find out how connected they are to the community and what are their specific concerns.
To find out concerns and needs of the youth in the community.
- Survey conducted and results compiled in a report form.
YSB
- Coordinate survey related activities.
SEOCHC
- Support in preparing Questionnaire and data analysis.
TA
- Assisting the youth in survey and engage them in TA activities.
c) Community Video Documentary for projecting better image of the community and helping youth learn new skills
To promote positive image of the community
- Video Documentary is complete and available.
- Number of other agencies and organization integrating services
- More youth getting employment outside without facing any problems due to association with the community.
YSB
- To facilitate Youth Council’s communication with School of Journalism at Carlton for possible assistance.
- Also to find out other resource person who can help the youth undertake this activitiy.
SEOCHC
- Financial administration of budget
- Contracts
Neighborhood Restoration
Activities
Objective/rationale
Success indicator
Partners/Roles responsibilities
Producing monthly community Newsletter
- To keep the community at large informed of the ongoing activities.
- To generate interest of non-participating community members in the ongoing activities.
- To promote positive image of the community.
- Monthly newsletter created and distributed to households.
- Feedback from the community about the Newsletter.
- Increased participation of the community in the program activities
TA
- To gather success stories and activities descriptions.
- Distribute the newspaper
SEOCHC
- Provide formatting and photocopying assistance
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Community House
- To provide success stories, news about the upcoming events.
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Activities for on the job training, job search, job readiness, and resume development
Provide youth opportunity to get ready for employment.
Number of youth benefiting from job readiness activities
Community House
- Providing opportunity to youth to work at the Community House.
- Provide facilities and guidance.
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Activities against anti-social behavior.
Sharing a multi-cultural meal, to include informal presentations on these key themes (Saturday evening 6 pm)
- Provide opportunity to different cultural groups to meet and interact.
-Provide opportunities for thematic presentation by Project partners on issues that affect the community.
- Number of persons attending multi-cultural dinner
- Number of information sharing session by police and other partners in the multicultural dinner and chat activity.
- Reduction in the number of criminal activities
TA
- Ensuring continued participation
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Community House
- Facilitate the activity.
- Provide an opportunity to cook under supervision during office hours.
- Oversee the quality of food and expenditure.
SEOCHC
- Financial administration of budget
- Data collection
- Monitoring, evaluation and reporting
Law Enforcement
Activities
Objective/rationale
Success indicator
Partners/Roles responsibilities
Educating community members on effective, safe procedures to share information, report crime and make complaints.
- To remove misconceptions about crime, safety and approach of Ottawa Police service.
- Provide the much needed information for safety and security.
-Increase in sharing crime-related information with the police.
- Number of community initiative for safety and security
-Impact on Calls for Service
TA
Ottawa Police Services
Assigning dedicated staff to the community and to this project; and ensuring access to other sections of the police service.
-To provide more effective and focused services.
-Provide opportunity for interaction between the Police Services and the community.
-Re-build trusting relationship between community and police
- Police drops in the TA and other community meetings
-Impact on Crime rate.
-Survey results around relationship between police and community
Meeting with community in informal meetings and routine contacts in neighbourhood.
- Build community’s trust for collaboration and cooperation.
- Feedback attesting to improved working relationships with police services.
Providing sustainable law enforcement activities - Address crime and disorder issues while focusing on the root causes - Feedback from community on their perception of law enforcement activities
- Impact on law enforcement activitiesBuilding close relationship with Ottawa Community Housing security and other agencies. - To make the law enforcement process effective
- Gather information from more sources
- Joint patrol
- Information sharing.
- Giving agent status to OPSSocial Mobilization Activity Schedule from Nov 1, 2006 - april 30, 2007
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