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A safer downtown, with dignity for everyone
One report reaches outreach, police or cleanup, and dark spots get fixed fast.
Idea for assessment, not an approved project
The problem
What residents describe today.
Downtown businesses deal with repeat break-ins and often never hear back after a report.
People who see someone in distress in the cold do not know who to call when it is not an emergency.
Evidence
The problem comes from downtown business owners and residents. It has not been measured yet. To test it: report numbers, response times and what businesses hear back after a report.
The idea
An approach to assess.
- One report form that sends each case to the right team: outreach, police or cleanup. Emergencies still go to 911.
- Outreach that answers wellness checks, and housing support that knows each person by name.
- Dark spots and broken lights fixed fast. Warm spaces on the coldest nights.
- Support for businesses after a break-in, and a weekly downtown picture shared with businesses and the public.
Before anything happens
What this idea still needs.
- Tarrabin Consulting's role
- Tarrabin Consulting wrote this idea and can advise on it. We do not run these services and we hold no approval to build them. Any decision belongs to the people and organizations responsible.
- Decisions needed
- Which teams would receive each type of report, how outreach and housing support would be resourced, and how the privacy and dignity of people in distress are protected.
- Next step to test it
- Meet downtown businesses and outreach agencies to check the problem, then agree what a weekly downtown picture should show.
- Communities
- Where an idea touches First Nations or Métis communities, those communities decide. Nothing goes ahead without their written mandate, and the Crown's duty to consult stays with the Crown.
Video, 2 min 14 s
Video coming soon
A café owner, a nurse walking home and a neighbour who used to sleep outside. All fictional.
Demonstration. Screens show simulated data. People in the video are fictional unless named.
Coming to the Tarrabin Consulting YouTube channel.
Your opinion
Three questions. Under a minute.
Is this a problem for you, and would this idea help? Your answers are counted with everyone else's.
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