Community & Urban Safety Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit

Many communities across Canada have a Crime Prevention, Community Safety, or Community Safety & Well Being plan, and are grappling with how to measure its ongoing progress and results. Monitoring safety indicators and evaluating comprehensive multi-sector initiatives is not as straight-forward as evaluating a single program.

Community safety and well-being are shaped by many interconnected factors at the individual, family, community, and system levels. Monitoring police-reported crime rates is only a small piece of the puzzle, and it is simply not representative of the bigger picture.

Read more and test the toolkit