That Council endorse the Nanaimo Resilience Strategy.
To present the Nanaimo Youth Resilience Strategy for Council consideration of endorsement.
That Council endorse the Nanaimo Youth Resilience Strategy.
a lot of problems with this, , Um Having much experience working with gangs, etcetera, you're only focusing on street gangs. You're not looking at the organized crime gangs who mostly come from affluent families. Is there anything you're doing to get those kids Because everything you're focused on is those with lower socioeconomic standards. But the main gangs with the weapons and all that come from higher, affluent families. Are we doing anything about that? ? not touching those people. The kids that are coming from the highest higher like a fluent And they're the ones that are doing most of the gang stuff here. . We're going after those, and I understand the importance
Thank you your worship at as far as I'm concerned if you save one child That's all you need to do You know what I mean? ? It's it's one child is worth. . Billions. So keep up the good work. I'm thrilled to see this. Come forward. My biggest concern. Um not so much concerned, but questions are are. What is it that you like? I understand that What you were trying to do is find the root causes and the risks. What are the end goals is like, how do you make it better for them? What are you doing that and maybe it's just my misunderstanding. If you could just explain that to me a little bit about What are you going to do with the information that you have? ?
think you know when we were consulting with, um and I know Lisa refers to his auntie Joan, with The couch where it's Nanaimo first nation, and and she, she said it best in that we're creating a family as a community. We're creating the extended family that these youth maybe don't actually have in their home. . So a sense of belonging sense of purpose and so finding ways to build that as a community, whether it be through through the mentoring through spaces, places for them to be, , um, , so that That is, Yeah. So it just one more
question, if if it's is it fair to say
That because this is just at the starting point. Three years, of course, is not enough to do a lot. I'm hoping that it won't end
That's absolutely right. And that's a big emphasis on the public safety Canada funding program is the sustainability plan to once we create these great networks. How will we continue that? And we'll be required to report that public safety Canada and look for ways to do