Emerging Trends and Special Topics: Public Education and Neighbourhood Engagement

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Recognizing the expanding roles of municipal and provincial offices officers, and the contributions they are making to community health and wellbeing, this course focuses on collaborative public safety practice in two main areas: public education around current community issues; and strategies and techniques for neighbourhood engagement to prevent offences and mitigate risk. Learners will contrast public education/prevention versus enforcement and examine the impacts that municipal bylaw/provincial offences officers can have on communities through a discerning blend of education, support and enforcement strategies. Students will survey and describe existing and emerging community challenges (e.g., the legalization of cannabis, unsanctioned public gatherings, inter-group conflict), and consider options for addressing these challenges through programming and operations

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