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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSHCAC - 2015-03-05 - 2015-2016 Workplan Development 2 - 1 2 - 2 Safe and Healthy Advisory Committee Emerging Themes THEME: BUILDING BRIDGES TO ENGAGEMENT Lack of awareness of events, especially apartment buildings Invite all marginal groups to city events - direct invitations Recommendation provide funding for youth to attend programs Invisibility - KW is a very closeted community - no verbal or vi Recommendation Safe and Healthy put a priority on engaging youth in the roles high-schools The city does a good job supporting events, but would benefit fr (other cities do) Recommendation a priority be placed on youth outreach support in areas of the Recommendation hire a student to knock on doors and invite people into communi Include LGBTQ info in city brochures - LGBTQ should be mandated Recommendation hold free meet and greet your neighbours at local community cen Hire a PR person or liaison person responsible to build relation Recommendation - staff work to develop an internet based humb th concerning City of Kitchener in general. Recommendation - provide more affordable public transportation e Train city staff on how to embrace LGBTQ community Recommendation - the youth grant be increased THEME: INCLUSION AND BELONGING Lack of city engagement with LGBTQ community - not represented o Resistance to partner with community cnetres out of fear of not negative experiences in Community Centres Poverty Desire to engage Neighbourhood members Many women find it hard to find work outside of the home. Would policies and laws Transportation - difficulties of transportation to programs for individuals Desire to get Neighbours out on their streets Isolation - people revert to survival mode People afraid to put their names forward as representatives of t Many new Canadians come with fears and mental and physicall illn Engagement of teenagers, especially teenage males Language barriers People dont feel invited - not necessarily excluded, but not inv Youth getting into trouble, lack a sense of belonging THEME: NEIGHBOURHOOD FACILITIES AND SPACES Need for space for NA programs, especially if they do not have a Field booking fees too expensive and availability limited Recommendation provide more community gathering places Recommendation ensure that each active NA has a place this place would be available to the smaller communities in the Neighbourhood Recommendation find ways to make better use of public fields, including time s Recommendation Provide free subsidized space for smaller communities to run or Public washrooms and changerooms are not LGBTQ friendly THEME: COMMUNITY SAFETY Lack of feeling of security or safety in downtown city parking g Traffic volume on Jubilee Drive in Victoria Park Traffic enforced school safety zones, speed in Neighborhoods Downtown Core abandoned or derelict houses, two locations were a specific con Samual. Neighbourhood members feel very unsafe around these bui Neighbourhood Lighting Drug activity at some community centres Keeping the creek and bush areas clean Roots from mature trees also a problem. Broken sidewalks in fou Replace the big trees with smaller ones so it's brighter (large THEME: CAPACITY BUILDING AND EMPOWERMENT Give community leaders agency Lack of volunteers Grassroots support systems run by volunteers with very little mo THEME: PROGRAMS AND SERVICES Difficulty reaching out to other soccer leagues Run more summer programs for youth - sports and academic activit Recommendation provide equipment sharing for sports activities 2 - 3