Over 70 community partners worked together to complete The Plan. The Team consisted of representatives from:

• Steering Committee Reps - Bruce County Human Services, Grey County Social Services, Victim Services Bruce Grey Perth, Grey Bruce Health Unit and South Bruce OPP 
• Municipal Reps - Grey Highlands, Owen Sound, Arran-Elderslie, Kincardine, Northern Bruce Peninsula, South Bruce, West Grey, Hanover, Saugeen Shores, South Bruce Peninsula, The Blue Mountains, Chatsworth, Georgian Bluffs, Huron-Kinloss and Southgate
• Police Service Partners - Grey Highlands PSB, Brockton PSB, Chatsworth PSB, Collingwood and The Blue Mountains OPP, Georgian Bluffs PSB, Grey Bruce OPP, Hanover PSB, Hanover Police Services, Huron-Kinloss PSB, Kincardine PSB, Neyaashiinigmiing First Nation Police Services, Northern Bruce Peninsula PSB, Owen Sound Police Service, Saugeen Shores Police Service, Saugeen Shores PSB, South Bruce OPP, South Bruce Peninsula PSB, Southgate PSB, The Blue Mountains PSB, West Grey Police Service, and West Grey PSB. 
• Community Partners - Bluewater District School Board, Bruce County Human Services, Bruce Grey Catholic District School Board, Bruce Grey Child & Family Services, Bruce Grey Poverty Task Force, Bruce Peninsula Safe Communities Committee, Canadian Mental Health Association Grey Bruce Mental Health And Addiction Services Grey Bruce, Community Connection / 211 Central East Region Contact Centre, Community Drug And Alcohol Strategy, Reducing Harm In Bruce And Grey, Conseil Scolaire Catholique Providence, Council On Aging Grey Bruce, Four County Labour Market Planning Board, Georgian College, Owen Sound Campus, Grey Bruce Children's Alliance, Grey Bruce Community Legal Clinic, Grey Bruce Health Unit, Grey Bruce Integrated Health Coalition, Grey Bruce Youth Engagement Network, Grey County Social Services, Grey-Bruce Ontario Health Team Planning Committee, Keystone Child, Youth & Family Services, M'Wikwedong Native Cultural Resource Centre, Ministry Of Children, Community And Social Services, Saugeen Valley Children's Safety Village, South West Local Health Integration Network, Southern Bruce County Safe Communities Committee, United Way Of Bruce Grey, Victim Services Bruce Grey Perth, Violence Prevention Grey Bruce and YMCA Of Owen Sound Grey Bruce.

Collaborative, cross-sector Community Safety and Well-Being Planning leads to numerous benefits for individuals, the broader community, and participating partner agencies and organizations, including:

• enhanced communication and collaboration among sector, agencies and organizations;
• stronger families and improved opportunities for healthy child development;
• healthier, more productive individuals who positively contribute to the community;
• increased understanding of – and focus on – priority risks, vulnerable groups and neighbourhoods;
• transformation of service delivery including realignment of resources and responsibilities to better respond to priority risks and needs;
• increased engagement of community groups, residents and the private sector in local initiatives and networks;
• enhanced feelings of safety and being cared for, creating an environment that will encourage newcomers to the community;
• increased awareness, coordination of an 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.

Now that The Plan has been adopted, the Advisory Committee is moving to action related to the 2021-2025 Priority Areas of Concern being:

1. Addiction and Substance Abuse
2. Mental Health
3. Crime Prevention
4. Housing and Homelessness
5.  Poverty and Income

Where appropriate, an action table will be created. A chair from among the team is appointed to recruit community partners or individuals best positioned to address the issue. If an existing body is already well-positioned to address the issue, the group may be asked to assume the role of an Action Table.

CSWBP - Moving Forward

As the Team moves Community Safety and Well-Being Planning forward from 2021 to 2025, the following phases of work will be extremely important:

• Action Table identification and planning to tackle specific areas of concern within the Priority Areas of Risk;
• Monitoring and evaluation of the Action Plans;
• Ongoing community consultation, especially with people with lived experience/vulnerable populations most impacted within each Priority Area of Risk;
• Achieving greater coordination and collaboration between existing issue and planning tables and supporting consolidation where appropriate; and
• Providing annual progress reports from Action Tables to the Advisory Committee, to participating County and Municipal Councils, and to the communities at large.

 Future community engagement may include:

• Community surveys - Residents of Bruce County and Grey County were invited to complete our 2020 Community Engagement Survey (this was completely anonymous), and almost 2000 residents participated! This survey will be repeated as implementation begins, in order to ensure we are evaluating the impacts of our actions for the Community Safety and Well-Being Plan for the Municipalities of Bruce and Grey.
• Community sessions (virtual or in-person, depending on community pandemic restrictions) - As the CSWBP for Bruce and Grey is implemented, Action Tables will be engaging with residents in order to identify specific actions that need to be taken in each of the Priority areas of Risk.

Please see the Community Safety and Well Being Planning website for more information: Home | Community Safety and Well-Being Planning for the municipalities of Bruce & Grey (cswbp-brucegrey.ca)