Community Wellbeing and Safety

With generous support from the City of Winnipeg, the Province of Manitoba, and the West Broadway Business Improvement Zone, WBCO delivers a range of activities focused on preventing crime, reducing harm, and improving justice and accessibility for all. WBCO programming is prevention focused rather than reactive, believing that supporting one another to avoid or reduce harm is a more effective route to improved public safety.

Safety is a fundamental aspect of our lives, a key determinant of our sense of health and wellbeing. Yet relative comparisons of ‘safety’ are often very different from one person to the next because some of us face much greater risk of harm and victimization than others. Understandably, those of us who have been victimized by crime or a witness to victimization feel a heightened sense of our own safety or lack thereof. Likewise, if one sees or hears about criminal activity or conditions of disorder (public intoxication, neglected children, boarded up buildings, poorly disposed of garbage, etc) on a regular basis, their overall perception of the potential for danger in their lives will be affected. We know that some West Broadway residents are much more vulnerable to criminal activity than others so WBCO prioritizes support for these neighbours in the following projects.