Online survey aims to identify Lethbridge’s social needs
LETHBRIDGE – The public’s input is being sought as part of work on a community development strategy by the City of Lethbridge.
The process includes assessing the needs, through an asset mapping project, and engaging the community and stakeholders. A short survey has been put online. Project assistant Brittany Bishop explained while there are questions about urgent issues like drug addiction and housing, they’ve also been pulled out into their own strategic planning.
“Originally, the community development strategy was going to be including substance abuse and housing as well as all the other social issues in our community,” Bishop said. “But due to the pressing nature of the substance abuse and the housing, council decided to create separate strategies for both of those, and take a deeper vertical on those, which we are much in support of, as this will give us a deeper breadth of information on those topics.
“And then, we will take the development strategy, the community drug strategy, and the municipal housing strategy and we will weave that together into a Lethbridge Social Well-Being Strategy, as kind of a comprehensive road map on what the priority issues are in Lethbridge and how the community can best tackle them together.”