Key Dates: Workshops
Workshop 1: Upstream conditions driving crisis, such as housing, basic needs, and mental health
- Wednesday, Feb. 11 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
- Lakeview Heights Community Hall, 860 Anders Road
This workshop focuses on housing, homelessness, basic needs, and mental health and substance use, exploring where prevention and early intervention are breaking down and how these conditions contribute to crisis and reliance on emergency response.
Workshop 2: Who is most affected, including youth, seniors, families, Indigenous residents, and equity-denied groups
- Thursday, Feb. 12 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
- Lakeview Heights Community Hall, 860 Anders Road
This workshop centres the experiences of children, youth, families, seniors, Indigenous residents, and equity-denied groups, identifying how safety is experienced differently and where earlier, more equitable supports could change outcomes across the life course.
Workshop 3: Safety in public spaces and neighbourhoods
- Thursday, Feb. 12 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
- Lakeview Heights Community Hall, 860 Anders Road
This workshop examines how safety is felt in neighbourhoods and public spaces, with attention to design, infrastructure, presence, and shared expectations that influence predictability, comfort, and everyday use of community spaces.
Workshop 4: Systems coordination and moving to action
- Friday, Feb. 13 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
- Lakeview Heights Community Hall, 860 Anders Road
This workshop brings together system leaders to clarify roles, strengthen coordination and navigation, and translate insights from the earlier workshops into clear, prevention-focused action priorities and implementation principles.