 enhanced feelings of safety and being cared for, creating an environment that will encourage newcomers to the community;

 increased awareness, coordination of and access to services for community members and vulnerable groups;

 more effective, seamless service delivery for individuals with complex needs;

 new opportunities to share multi-sectoral data and evidence to better understand the community through identifying trends, gaps, priorities and successes; and

 reduced investment in and reliance on incident response.

“I believe that community safety and well-being planning situates itself perfectly with many other strategic initiatives that the City is currently pursuing. It has allowed us to consider programs and activities that will produce synergistic impacts across various areas of strategic priority in our community such as poverty reduction, educational attainment and building stronger families. Planning for simultaneous wins is efficient public policy.” - Susan Evenden, City of Brantford