Projects and Conversations – CSWB

• Data-related projects are crucial in establishing baselines, understanding needs, allocating resources, and measuring impact. These projects include monitoring discarded needles and incidents, alcohol impact monitoring, collecting data on interpersonal violence, and facilitating corporate data collaboration.  As this work progresses, we will make more data available to the community.
• Homelessness-focused tables address both short-term and systemic solutions. Short-term initiatives include the encampments and emergency shelter tables, while systemic solutions involve client journey mapping and landlords' shared learning tables. These efforts demonstrate how partnerships and collaboration can build collective momentum to address homelessness, from supporting chronically unhoused individuals to those precariously housed with private landlords, and working to manage associated challenges for Prince Albert neighbourhoods.
• Action tables such as discarded needles & incident reporting, and graffiti and gang tagging address community environmental concerns. These issues are indicative of chronic risk and are associated with substance use, garbage accumulation, and criminal involvement or vulnerability.
• Population-level intervention projects aim to reduce broad community harms. Key projects in this category include the Alcohol Monitoring and Perinatal Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infection tables.

Learn more about the forum and how to participate here.

In Saskatchewan, Hub Tables bring representatives from various government ministries, community agencies, First Nations governments, and Tribal Councils together. These groups work together to make communities safer by identifying individuals at high risk of crisis and connecting them to appropriate services early, reducing the need for emergency responses.

The first Hub Table in the province was in Prince Albert, starting in February 2011, and it has handled around 2,500 cases. However, in November 2023, the Hub Steering Group suggested pausing the Prince Albert table due to staffing issues affecting participation.

The City is working with the Hub Steering Group and testing a new Hub Coordinator model.

The City’s proposal for the Community Safety and Well-Being Initiative included funding for one-time community investment opportunities to support pilot programs aimed at addressing service provision gaps specifically related to gang and gun violence. To date, $175,637 has been invested in community programs throughout Prince Albert. Based on data collected from community-led consultations and a review of international evidence, the following needs were identified for investment in 2023-2024:

• Initiatives that prevent/intervene in youth pathways to gang violence;
• Interventions for children and youth that address risk factors related to gun and gang violence; and
• Interventions that strengthen resiliency for adults at risk for gang grooming, recruitment, and exploitation, with a focus on justice pathways and opportunities to access employment.

The following organizations received funding:

• West Flats Citizen’s Group
• Prince Albert Indian Metis Friendship Centre
• John Diefenbaker Public School
• Prince Albert Grand Council
• STR8UP
• Catholic Family Services of Prince Albert
• Dumont Technical Institute