Conditions
Sample Community Solutions
Sample Community Indicators
Presence
Sample Community Solutions
  • Household to household, peer-to-peer mentorship and/or buddy systems for vulnerable people
  • Community support for increased variety of social gatherings for different interests, personality types and language speakers
  • Volunteerism tax credit
Sample Community Indicators
  • Surveys, polls, community assessment
  • Reports from social and community service providers (including arts and culture, parks, recreation, sports, libraries) on availability, awareness, uptake, and quality of participation in supportive activities (events, programs, groups, and other offerings)
  • Census data, e.g. loneliness and belonging, leisure activities, mental health, social connections, proximity to friends and family
  • Levels of volunteerism
Access
Sample Community Solutions
  • Improved accessibility, transit and walkability scores for all neighbourhoods
  • Increased disability support
  • Pet-friendly policies
  • 4-day work week and/or 2-hour lunch breaks
Sample Community Indicators
  • Walk, Bike & Transit Scores (walkscore.com)
  • Census data on Time Use
  • Context-sensitive distribution of family-, disability-, seniors-, pet-, & arts-friendly dwellings & public spaces
  • Accessibility of retail, social spaces & events
  • Disposable income for people living with social assistance
Cultures
Sample Community Solutions
  • Normalize talking about moving through loneliness and discovering ways to connect and belong
  • Reduce discrimination and exclusion
  • Promote stories that reflect diversity of experiences
  • Promote neighbourliness and social connection through community policies
Sample Community Indicators
  • Trends in local news and social forums
  • Census and local data on discrimination
  • Census and local data on neighbourliness and social support
  • Distribution of arts, culture, sports, and entertainment
  • Policies that impact social participation, incl. voting, youth spaces, night life, activities in parks, zoning, etc.
Place
Sample Community Solutions
  • Building guidelines that help foster social interactions in community spaces
  • Ensuring ample greenspace and public common areas in all neighbourhoods, particularly those at higher risk
Sample Community Indicators
  • Local data on satisfaction with where one lives, works and plays
  • Per capita size and geographic spread of accessible greenspace and public space
  • All four conditions are interrelated, however, Place is understood as particularly related to Access