Peel's Community Safety and Well-being Plan
Stronger collaboration, greater impact
Peel’s Community Safety and Well-being (CSWB) Plan sets out how partners across different sectors can work together to make Peel a safer, more inclusive, and connected community where all residents thrive.
Over 75 partner organizations, spanning emergency services, education, health, social services, and government, are working together to advance the Community Safety and Well‑Being (CSWB) Plan. This collaborative effort is supported by a shared governance structure that brings partners together at the leadership level. The System Leadership Table, a group of cross-sector leaders, work together to provide strategic guidance, strengthen shared accountability, and advance system-wide change.
- Our vision: Peel is a safe, inclusive and connected community where all residents thrive.
- Our mission: We will work together to ensure access to services and supports that advance safety, connectedness, and well-being for all Peel residents.
How we work together
Peel’s CSWB model helps us understand what affects health and well-being and respond early to emerging issues. We use data, community insight, and a system-wide approach to guide action where it’s needed most.
Our work is grounded in collaboration, shared responsibility, and listening to people with lived experience—ensuring our actions reflect community needs and create lasting impact.
The Plan remains flexible to respond to emerging issues in the community. Peel’s CSWB model identifies and anticipates emerging issues related to the structural and social determinants of health, such as affordability pressures currently affecting food security and housing. By integrating systems thinking, data, and community insights, priorities are set and actions taken that are tailored to local needs.
We remain committed to collaborating with system and community partners, building on the strong foundation we have established together. We will work together to bring Peel’s CSWB model to life and its vision for action, while continuously listening to and involving those with lived experience to improve our community.
Our strategic focus on children and youth
Peel has a large and growing population of young people. The systems that support them, like schools, mental health services, housing, recreation, and family supports play a key role in shaping their future and the overall wellbeing of the community.
The CSWB Plan focuses on children and youth to create early system‑level change. There is a particular focus on middle childhood (ages 7 to 14), an important stage that influences long‑term health, learning, and social outcomes.
Our goals
While the plan recognizes there are many issues that impact community safety and well-being, 5 interconnected goals have been identified to strengthen child and youth wellbeing and the conditions surrounding them:
- Strong relationships and belonging
- Healthy in body and mind
- Safe, inclusive places to grow
- Equitable access to opportunities and stability
- Youth voice, agency and leadership
Key actions will advance the CSWB Plan, support leadership, and create conditions for effective collaboration. These enabling actions will ensure the CSWB Plan remains adaptive, connected and impact driven:
- A cohesive and integrated system through shared system intelligence
- Evidence informed decision making through data and community insights
- Strengthen capacity for equitable lived experience engagement
- Shared communications and advocacy that amplify CSWB impact
Family and intimate partner violence
The most recent 'Break the Silence' campaign, focused on challenging misconceptions about abuse to encourage difficult conversations about violence against women and shared available resources to support survivors. Learn more about Family and Intimate Partner Violence and the link to the campaign.
Information session resources for international students
Community partners representing various sectors, including health and social services agencies, settlement services, academic institutions, government, and individuals with lived experience worked together to advance the goals of the Brampton Charter for Improving the International Student Experience. A key action was to create an information session series on topics to support international students with navigating key aspects of life in Peel and Canada. Link here to access the session recordings.
Online digital platform in Peel to combat systemic discrimination
The Anti-Black Racism Systemic Discrimination Collective of Peel led the development and launch of an online space that continues to serve as a vital forum for meaningful and challenging conversations, reflections, and calls to action on topics of system discrimination.
As legislated under the Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019 municipalities must prepare and adopt a plan. CSWB Plans are mandated to be supported by advisory committees consisting of the chief of police and representatives from the health sector, education, community or social services, youth services, municipalities, and the police services board. In Peel, the System Leadership Table serves as our advisory committee.
The plan is guided by the Ministry of the Solicitor General’s Community Safety and Well-being Planning Framework, which seeks to enhance community safety and well-being by addressing key local risk factors through proactive and integrated strategies. The focus on proactive, preventative efforts and upstream social development has proven to reduce the financial burden of crime including the number of incidents that require enforcement.
Refer to Ontario’s community safety and well-being planning framework in the CSWB plan.
The first iteration of Peel’s Community Safety and Well-being (CSWB) Plan 2020-2024 was endorsed by Peel Region Council on October 22, 2020.
Municipalities are legislatively required to review and, if necessary, revise their CSWB Plans every 4 years. To meet this requirement, a structured approach was taken to review the first iteration of Peel’s CSWB Plan 2020-2024.
Peel Region Council endorsed the updated CSWB Plan on June 12, 2025.
