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public information. Office of the City Clerk 410 - 9th Street Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A2 Fax (204) 729-0975 SUBJECT: Safe Communities Brandon & Area I/We [Name of presenter(s)] Fiona Jeffries wish to appear as a delegation at the December 7, 2009 regular meeting of Brandon City Council. The purpose of addressing City Council is: Update Council on what Safe Communities Brandon & Area has accomplished since its inception. I hereby acknowledge that I have read the Procedural Requirements for Delegations and agree to abide by such regulations. Contact Information:

First Name: Fiona

Last Name: Jeffries

Email: jeffriesf@brandonrha.mb.ca

Phone: (204) 571-8398

Address: Unit A5-800 Rosser Ave

Postal Code: Brandon, MB R7A 6N5

Attachments:

Our Purpose: To provide leadership through a broad-based, sustainable safety coalition that

promotes a culture of safety, making Brandon and Area (Cornwallis, Elton and Whitehead Municipalities), a Safe Community in which to live, learn, work and play.

Our Beginning:

Designation in Nov 2003 – Canada’s 34th and Manitoba’s FIRST Safe Community. Our Challenge:

In 2007, 15 Brandon area residents died of injuries, and 243 were hospitalized 1599 workplace injuries were reported to Worker’s Compensation Board Nearly half of workplace injuries are to workers under age 35 Injury is the most frequent reason for visits to the emergency room Most injury deaths and hospitalizations are for Falls and Motor Vehicle Collisions

Our Priorities

Falls Among Seniors Childhood Injury Young Worker Injuries Motor Vehicle Injuries Local Injury Surveillance

Our Reach

Over 100 volunteers contribute over 1000 hours to promoting safety each year. 520 youth received Passport to Safety education in 2008/09 Over 100 Brandon area employers at “Protecting Our Young Workers – The

Employer’s Role” workshops 53 playgrounds in the City of Brandon assessed and repaired to CSA standards Participatory action research led to changes in 1st and Victoria intersection Partnerships formed with many community groups to promote a culture of safety

throughout our region Our Impact Safe Communities Brandon and Area has been recognized with

Safe Communities Canada Award of Excellence in 2006 Safe Communities Canada – Ambassador for Safety, Business Partner 2007 award

to Bill Turner of Canexus Chemicals Brandon Facility Injury Free Manitoba Award – Partnership 2008

www.safecommunities.ca

A Safe Community is one which reflectsthe passion and commitment of peoplewho DREAM of a community that isfree of injury and pain, and who DAREto commit to DO something tangible to realize that dream.

Safe Communities Canada

Designated Brandon and Area as

Manitoba’s 1st Safe Community in 2003

Brandon & Area SafeCommunities Working

in Your Community

• Occupational Health & Safety Conference

• Safe Communities Canada – Boardof Directors

• Community Strategic Plan• Greenway Survey and Partnership• Playground Safety Audits• Skate Oval Project• Westman Science Fair Awards• Playground Sweep• ER Chart Review – Data Collection

& Analysis• Healthy Brandon – Adult Bike Safety

Workshop• Sharing the Road – Discussion Panel• Safe Kids Day – Product Roundup

& Safety Village• Passport to Safety Program• Protecting Our Young Workers

Workshop• Research, Audit & Assessment of

1st & Victoria Intersection

Safe Communities Canada is the country’s foremost community-driveninjury prevention charity whose mission is to make our nation the safest placein the world to live, learn, work and play.

Safe Communities Canada is a network of designated safe communities across thecountry comprised of thousands of leaders in neighbourhoods, in regions and inmunicipalities in Canada who DREAM of building a safer community and DARE tocommit to DO something tangible to realize that dream.

We are North America’s only International Certifying Centre for The World HealthOrganization‘s Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion.

Canada ranks o

nly 22 of the

29 Organizatio

n for

Economic Co-op

eration nation

s for preventi

ng childhood

injuries and d

eaths

Together we can fix this

• Over 325,000 workers are injured at the workplace eachyear, over 50,000 are between 15 and 24 years old• Approximately 19,700 Canadians are hospitalizedannually due to motor vehicle crashes

• Over 100,000 Canadians are hospitalized each year as aresult of a fall – 66,000 are over the age of 65

Approximately 70% of injur

ies occur

outside the workplace; mos

t communities

have no strategy to addres

s where most

injuries occur – in their

own

neighbourhoods, back yards

and homes.

Our BeginningSafe Communities Canada was founded in 1996 by Paul Kells, whose 19 year old son Sean waskilled in an avoidable and totally senseless explosion on the third day of his part time job. Ourorganization is a living legacy for a young life needlessly lost.

Our RoleSafe Communities Canada is a catalyst, consensus builder and an enabler to action for communitiesto meet basic requirements for designation to address community-specific priority causes of injury ofits citizens. Every community we designate has a group of leaders in the field of safety: police, fire,local government, public health, education, service organizations, industry, business and volunteersetc, who form a Leadership Table of that community.

• Over 200,000 people world-wide have

completed a Passport to Safety test.

• In Canada Passport to Safety is used in o

ver 1,000 schools

and over 350 work places.

Our ReachIn every Canadian Safe Community, people have made a personal commitmentto do something to reduce the pain and cost of injury. It is the volunteers in SafeCommunities who give heart, body and soul to that leadership backbone. We saluteand honour those volunteers across the country who are working every day to reduceinjury and promote a culture of safety in their communities.

Our InnovativenessPassport to Safety is Safe Communities Canada’s signature program that was originally conceivedand piloted by Peterborough Safe Communities to increase awareness of workplace safety for youngworkers 15 to 24 years old. It was then developed on-line and launched by Safe CommunitiesCanada in 2004 and now is applicable to workers of any age. The program is now being used inAustralia and New Zealand.

• In the past year volunteers contributed over 24,000 hours tothe cause of injury prevention and safety promotion in Canada.• Over 2,200 volunteers are members of local Leadership Tablesacross Canada

• by 2008 Safe Communities Canada has designated 54 safecommunities in 7 provinces and one territory in Canada

The Impact• Halifax NS was successful in getting an injury

prevention program for children 4 to 14 (RiskWatch) in every elementary school in the province –the first in Canada

• After designation as a Canadian Safe Community, Brockville ON realizeda 5% reduction in fire insurance premiums and a 7% reduction in hospitalemergency ward visits

• In the City of Kamloops BC, liability insurance premiums were reduced by 20%due to the implementation of injury reduction strategies

• In Brandon MB, the first designated safe community in that province, injuryreduction targets were either realized or surpassed – one of two Manitobaregions to do so

Partners in SupportSafe Communities Canada is proud of our corporate and institutional supporterswhose commitment to our goals has had a huge impact on our accomplishments andsuccesses. Many of our supporters have been with us since the beginning, and manyhave participated with us in very creative ways to make that contribution trulyunique. In fact, we have won awards for demonstrating creative synergy with oursupporters. From managing special awards programs on their behalf, to developingunique initiatives in partnership with them, our corporate and institutional supportersare all aware of the potential we offer to create special opportunities for doing goodthings for communities and citizens across Canada and for getting appropriaterecognition for doing so.

Our future is their future and we know that every citizen in every one of ourcommunities has been a beneficiary of this support.