Creating community hubs

NRU
Aug. 12, 2015

August 10, Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Community Hub Framework Advisory Group chaired by Karen Pitre released a report to guide the creation of community hubs—a public space that offers coordinated services such as education, healthcare and social services.

The report, Community Hubs in Ontario: A Strategic Framework and Action Plan, is based on input from more than 350 organizations, stakeholders who met with the advisory group and an online survey that garnered over 400 responses.

The report lays out an action plan with eight recommendations: creating a provincial lead for community hubs, fostering integrated service delivery, developing a provincial strategy for public properties, removing barriers and creating incentives, supporting integrated and long-term local planning, ensuring financial sustainability, increasing local capacity, and evaluating and monitoring outcomes.