REACH is Edmonton's Council for Safe Communities. We are a backbone, community-based organization working to mobilize and coordinate organizations, community groups and Edmontonians to find innovative solutions to community safety and prevention.
As a backbone organization REACH provides overall strategic direction with stakeholders, facilitates dialogue between partners, manages data collection and analysis, handles communications, coordinates community outreach, and mobilizes funding.
REACH has collective impact. We foster social change; a new way of thinking about and working to solve complex social issues to ensure our communities are safer.
Our training is accessible and provides knowledgeable, practical solutions for frontline workers, supervisors, law enforcement, social workers and others regarding best practices for working with vulnerable people and diverse populations.
In addition to implementing the nine REACH Report recommendations, REACH partners with organizations, businesses, community groups and individual Edmontonians to initiate or support innovative and effective programs that address the root causes of crime.
REACH Edmonton’s sixth Annual General Meeting and Showcase Celebration will have a different focus this year, as REACH presents An Evening of Reconciliation: We Are All Called to Action, June 9 at Central Lions Seniors Recreation Centre (11113 - 113 Street). This year’s theme is reconciliation, building on the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
Nearly 500 people gathered at Grant MacEwan University May 16-17 for the second sold-out High Risk Youth Conference (HRYC) in Edmonton. The theme of the 2016 conference was building connections, and focused on the value of relationship-based practice.
Half-way through a five-year project, WrapED (Wraparound Edmonton) released two short videos demonstrating the impact the initiative is having on youth and the organizations who serve them at a community report back event May 3 that was attended by nearly 120 people.
Edmonton recognized Sexual Exploitation Week of Awareness with a series of events, April 18-22.