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Province of Manitoba Media Release | <\/p>\nProvince of Manitoba Media Release | <\/p>\n
The Manitoba government is providing $150,000 for community mobilization hubs in Altona, Swan River and Winkler, connecting social service workers and community agencies with at-risk youth and families to ensure they are receiving appropriate and timely supports and interventions, Justice Minister Cameron Friesen announced March 31, 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cCommunity mobilization hubs provide a proactive and co-ordinated approach to helping people in communities,\u201d said Friesen. \u201cThis approach focuses on bringing together the agencies, organizations and supports that otherwise work alone, improving community safety, ensuring better use of police resources and putting people first. Our government is proud to be expanding this innovative program to more communities across Manitoba.\u201d<\/p>\n
The minister noted the province is now providing support to 12 community mobilization hubs in communities across the province. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis announcement is a huge vote of confidence from the Manitoba government, as well as a catalyst for growing the impact of what we do \u2013 bringing individuals, families and their supporters together to work through complicated life issues and make life better,\u201d said Jonothan Toews, board chair of the CommUNITY support team steering committee. \u201cOur stakeholders now have the resources to reshape our team into an independent organization with the capacity of reaching more individuals and families in crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manitoba\u2019s Policing and Public Safety Strategy, announced in May 2019, identifies community mobilization as an effective way to build local partnerships, prevent crime and help keep individuals out of the criminal justice system. Since the release of the strategy, the province has increased investment in community mobilization efforts to $1 million.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had the privilege of working with commUNITY since its inception, and I\u2019ve seen the hard work put in by the support team, as well as the clients we have helped. I know this program has made life better for many people in our community,\u201d said Chief Perry Batchelor, Altona Police Service. \u201cThis funding announcement is welcome news that will allow us to take commUNITY to the next level. We thank our provincial partners for their help through the years.\u201d<\/p>\n
The province has also signed on to the National Risk-driven Tracking Database (RTD) Project, a partnership with the province of Ontario that helps communities collect data about local priorities and evolving trends, and could support community safety and wellbeing planning. The minister noted the new tool will help communities track better data and outcomes, a priority set out in the Policing and Public Safety Strategy.<\/p>\n
Manitoba Community Mobilization Initiatives locations include:
\n\u2022 Community Care Program \u2013 Winkler;
\n\u2022 CommUNITY Support Teams \u2013 Altona;
\n\u2022 Swan Valley Community Mobilization \u2013 Swan River;
\n\u2022 Thunderwing \u2013 Winnipeg;
\n\u2022 START\/ReSTART \u2013 Selkirk;
\n\u2022 STAR\/ReSTART \u2013 Stonewall;
\n\u2022 FYRST\/ReSTART \u2013 Gimli;
\n\u2022 Headway\/ReSTART \u2013 Steinbach;
\n\u2022 DART\/ReSTART \u2013 Dauphin;
\n\u2022 Wawokiya \u2013 Portage la Prairie;
\n\u2022 Community Mobilization Westman \u2013 Brandon; and
\n\u2022 Thompson Community Response Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Province of Manitoba Media Release | The Manitoba government is providing $150,000 for community mobilization hubs in Altona, Swan River and Winkler, connecting social service workers and community agencies with at-risk youth and families to ensure they are receiving appropriate and timely supports and interventions, Justice Minister Cameron Friesen announced March 31, 2021. \u201cCommunity mobilization […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-36742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}