City of Surrey's 2024-2028 Financial Plan

SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE & COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS

2023 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

INCLUSION

Facilitated the development of six supportive housing facilities providing 313 units/beds in 2023; Supported the Surrey Urban Indigenous Leadership Committee (“SUILC”) by providing facilitation and strategic supports on a variety of issues such as Indigenous housing and homelessness, child poverty and youth and by providing administrative services including administering funding grants and agreements;

• In partnership with the Surrey Poverty Reduction Coalition, secured a UBCM grant to develop a toolkit and pilot pop-up clinics to address the barriers faced by people with disabilities in accessing disability benefits; • Initiated the process of developing two new plans: a Social Action Plan and a Homelessness Prevention and Response Plan; and • Reviewed and revised processes and policies to support well-functioning and licensed supportive recovery homes in Surrey.

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• Convened an inter-departmental staff process to create a shared definition

of equity to address inequities in policies, programs and initiatives;

PUBLIC SAFETY

SAFE Program partners were the recipients of the Union of BC Municipalities’ 2023 Excellence in Service Delivery award which acknowledges programs that provide effective and beneficial services to the community in a proactive manner and draw upon performance measures, benchmarks and standards to ensure sustainable service delivery;

• Surpassed13,000 visits to the SAFE Centre across more than 1100 separate community safety enhancing functions hosted since May 2019; • Coordinated 15 Empower Surrey Parent Workshops to assist Surrey caregivers in identifying and addressing early warning signs for youth gang involvement;

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Surrey Anti-Gang Family Empowerment Program

City of Surrey | 2024—2028 Financial Plan | General Operating Fund | Social Infrastructure & Community Investments

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