What is the Community Wellbeing Strategy?
Planning for community wellbeing means identifying strategies and actions that will help people live healthy, happy, and fulfilled lives in the City of North Vancouver, even as our community, and the world around us, evolves.
The Community Wellbeing Strategy will be our guide for civic decision-making that considers important topics, such as:
community resiliency
neighbourhood design
affordable housing
public safety
discrimination, marginalization, and racism
reconciliation
health and wellness
children, youth, families, and seniors
infrastructure
partnerships and advocacy
poverty reduction
How Will the Strategy be Used?
The Community Wellbeing Strategy will provide:
a vision and goals for our collective future;
strategies to help us meet these goals; and
actions we can take to build a caring City where everyone belongs.
The Process
The new Community Wellbeing Strategy will replace the City's Social Plan developed in 1998. While we have achieved many goals set in that plan, our community and the world around us is evolving. Our community is facing a number of challenges – some are global in nature, many are unique to our region, and others are specific to the City.
A new strategy is needed to provide direction, support decision-making and manage change in this context of changing local needs, shifting demands, limited resources and increasingly complex issues.
The Community Wellbeing Strategy framework was developed based on:
- existing plans and policies including the 1998 Social Plan and 2014 Official Community Plan
- community input from the You Me Us process in 2018-19, and ongoing stakeholder engagement
- current trends, best practices, and precedent research
- gaps identified in our current programs and services
- public health information
- City’s related work on: Housing Needs Report; Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Reconciliation Action Plan; Child Care Action Plan; Mobility Strategy; and Environment Strategy
We’ve Developed a Starting Point for Our Strategy
The initial framework for our Community Wellbeing Strategy outlines our early ideas for a vision, goals and set of strategies to help people live healthy, happy, and fulfilled lives in the City of North Vancouver. The input and ideas shared through the Fall 2021 public engagement will be used to help refine this framework and ensure it reflects the values and priorities of our community as a whole.