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PRESENTATION REGARDING COLLABORATE BARRIE
Police Chief Kimberley Greenwood, Inspector Dave Hossack, and Sergeant Valerie Gates, of the Barrie Police Service and Ms. Laurel Chapell of the Women and Children’s Shelter provided a presentation on the Collaborate Barrie initiative.
Chief Greenwood advised that Collaborate Barrie is a made-in-Barrie approach to collaborative, risk-driven community safety and wellbeing, established in June 2015. She discussed how the Police Service and community partners work together to address individuals and families within the community facing the highest needs, by using existing and combined resources and through addressing the issues at the front-end.
Inspector Hossack provided background information with respect to the establishment of the program in Canada and in the City of Barrie. He discussed the positive impact the Collaborate Barrie initiative is having in the community.
Sergeant Gates and Ms. Chapell provided a slide presentation concerning the Collaborate Barrie Initiative and discussed the following topics:
• The Collaborate Barrie mission and how the community partners work together to provide assistance to those in the community facing the highest need;
• The privacy process;
• The considerations in determining an acutely elevated risk;
• The organizations involved in Collaborate Barrie;
• The risk categories;
• A graph illustrating the highest risk factors experienced in the City of Barrie;
• A pie chart illustrating the percentage of cases brought forward by originating agency;
• A pie chart illustrating the percentage cases by Lead Agency; and
• Graphs illustrating the level of success achieved by the program since June 2015.
Members of Council asked a number of questions of the presenters and received responses.