Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan Update

We’re inviting community organizations to join us in updating Guelph’s Community Safety and Well-being (CSWB) Plan.

Under the Community Safety and Policing Act, the City is required to update and adopt a CSWB Plan every four years. Our goal is to collaborate with leaders and key service agencies serving Guelph to update the Plan by July 2026.

The CSWB Plan will not replace, or duplicate, work already underway across Guelph. Instead, it will build on efforts being made by people and agencies like yours to outline shared priorities and actions related to community safety and well-being for the next four years.

For this update, engagement will focus primarily on community organizations and collaborative bodies. These partners have direct relationships with residents at greatest risk, hold system-level knowledge of service gaps and emerging trends, and are central to delivering actions that will be identified under the CSWB Plan.

Priority Risk Area Review Exercise

The City, in collaboration with the CSWB Plan’s Community Advisory Table (a mandated, multi-sectoral group guiding the Plan’s update), has identified the first draft for priority risk areas in Guelph. These priority risk areas built upon those identified by the first version of the CSWB Plan, as well as research conducted by the City and through discussion at the Community Advisory Table.

We are looking to gather feedback from local community organizations on the draft priority risk areas, to address any gaps in the research and experiences that have informed the process up to this point.

For this exercise, we are asking community partners to help us:

• Validate and/or revise the first draft of the CSWB Plan’s proposed priority risk areas.
• Gather relevant data sources, reports, experiences, etc. from community organizations that may not be publicly available.
• Identify any missing community organizations involved in the proposed priority risk areas.

An eighth risk area is available for participants to identify any missing community risks [impacting vulnerable populations] for consideration as a priority risk area: Missing community risk areas. If a community risk is identified, please share rationale for its consideration, supported by any available data sources, reports, lived experiences, etc.

This exercise will close at the end of the day on Friday, March 13.

If you have any questions, need accommodation or prefer to share information with us in a different way, please contact strategy@guelph.ca.