Join Dr Chad Nilson & Cal Corley (pictured) for the Tuesday lunchtime session (L3)
The session on ‘Community safety and well-being: a new paradigm for human service delivery’ will address the interconnectivity of risk, vulnerability, and harm across human service sectors, and discuss the concepts, practice, and alignment of community safety and well-being.
Session summary:
There is a growing commitment among government, community-based, academic and private sectors to think differently about human service delivery, when and how it is applied, and in what configuration it is delivered. This movement is driven by a desire for evidence-based funding models, clear limitations of siloed approaches to human services, and both ethical and political aspirations to simply “do better”.
Across Canada, we have seen social innovations in collaborative risk-driven intervention (e.g. Hub/Situation Tables), multi-sector coordinated support (e.g. Wraparound), and bi-sector response teams (e.g. Police-Mental Health Crisis Units), among others. While we have observed great enhancements to integrated service delivery, the identification of shared outcomes, and the alignment of our human service systems, we have not fully accounted for what is really happening within this movement toward community safety and well-being.
To conceptualize these efforts, developmental evaluator and multi-sector collaboration specialist, Dr. Chad Nilson, defines community safety and well-being, identifies key concepts, highlights leading practice areas, and presents the goals of human service alignment under a framework of community safety and well-being. As the interconnectivity of risk, vulnerability, and harm becomes increasingly clear across all human service sectors, now is the time to start discussing the concepts, practice, and alignment of community safety and well-being.
Innovation in human service delivery is changing driven by a desire for evidence-based funding models, clear limitations of siloed approaches to human services, and both ethical and political aspirations to simply “do better”. Across Canada, there are emerging social innovations in collaborative risk-driven intervention (e.g. Hub/Situation Tables), multi-sector coordinated support (e.g. Wraparound), and bi-sector response teams (e.g. Police-Mental Health Crisis Units), among others. But what is really happening within this movement toward community safety and well-being? To conceptualize these efforts, developmental evaluator and multi-sector collaboration specialist, Dr. Chad Nilson, will address the interconnectivity of risk, vulnerability, and harm across human service sectors, and discuss the concepts, practice, and alignment of community safety and well-being.