Community Safety and Well-Being

The Importance of Collaboration in the Human Services Sector – Learnings from CSWB in Halton

The Importance of Collaboration in the Human Services Sector – Learnings from CSWB in Halton

Kendra Habing is the recipient of OMSSA’s 2024 OMSSA Young Leader Award. This award honours an individual 30 years or younger who has been recognized as a leader, created change, and strengthened leadership in their community. Kendra will be recognized at our 2025 Exchange Conference.

Today’s human services sectors face increasingly complex and dynamic challenges. Issues like mental health, homelessness, housing insecurity, and substance use require a multi-sector response that extends beyond the capacity of any single organization. To solve these challenging issues, upstream interventions are needed to prevent crisis in our communities.

The Halton Community Safety and Well-Being model is an inspiring example of what can be achieved when government, human services, and community partners come together with a shared vision. It reminds us that when we work collaboratively, we can do more together – leading to stronger, healthier, and safer communities for all.

Highlights of the 2024 Virtual Forum

Highlights of the 2024 Virtual Forum

Each year, OMSSA develops the topic of our annual Virtual Forum according to the interests of its members and on current developments in the municipal social services in Ontario. Since the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General ordered that all Community Safety and Well-Being (CSWB) plans adopted before July 2021 would need to be reviewed and revised by July 2025, it seemed both timely and appropriate that the 2024 OMSSA Virtual Forum be focused on issues directly linked to this work.