Safer Together brings The City, community partners, and other orders of government together to identify needs, close gaps, and take action.

The plan focuses on acting earlier, working together, and creating lasting solutions that respond to changing community needs.

Safer Together uses four connected approaches:

• Social development to build strong, connected communities
• Prevention to stop problems before they start
• Risk intervention to step in early when people or places face higher risks
• Incident response to respond when issues happen

People in Calgary have told us that safety and wellbeing are important. At the same time, many people have said they feel less safe than they did in the past, and some safety concerns, like violent crime, are increasing.  

Safety challenges are also becoming more complex. Many are connected to underlying issues such as food insecurity, lack of affordable housing, and barriers to accessing support services.

Safer Together responds to these challenges by focusing on the bigger picture and working across systems to better support people living in Calgary. It is grounded in what we heard from the community through engagement.

Safer Together focuses on five shared priorities that set where we focus our efforts. Equity, Anti-racism and Truth & Reconciliation guide how we do this work.  

To support these priorities, 15 collaborative actions outline where we can have the greatest impact and work together to create change.