SAFETY, COMMUNITY, and SOCIAL WORK: POSSIBILITIES FOR CANADA - MARCH 2022

There is a dearth of in programs and services in the community; the research focused on understanding the root second is the erosion of social services and income causes of such deadly encounters with the assistance programs by decades of funding cuts; police, but signs point to two influencing factors; and the third is the barriers people face trying to (i) the changing role of police that has le. [...] The deinstitutionalization movement of the 1970s and 1980s was fueled by the rising costs of healthcare, improved technologies that resulted in better care, and the growing realization of the harm done to people living in institutions and acknowledgment that the practice was a violation of their human rights. [...] The Framework for Understanding the Root Causes Applying the Lens of Social Determinants of Health The social determinants of health provide a cogent structure to frame the discourse in understanding the overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous within the criminal justice system. [...] For the first time, the government was seen to have both a duty and a responsibility to address the social, health and education needs of the people and to ease the suffering of the most vulnerable. [...] The early 2018 the Calgary Police Service, in consultation with Elders, recognized the need for a “The Calgary police publicly acknowledged strategy to guide the organization’s the history of systemic racism in policing implementation of the TRC Calls to Action, the and through a comprehensive community Inquiry into the Murdered and Missing Women and Girls and the White Goose Flying Report to the.