Catharines的《欢迎街道倡议》减少了紧急情况,通过外联帮助无人居住者,赢得了对长期筹资的支持。 St. Catharines' Welcoming Streets Initiative reduced emergencies and helped unhoused people via outreach, gaining support for long-term funding.

《欢迎街头倡议》是2025年4月在圣加泰因发起的一个试点方案,它减少了紧急呼叫,支助了无人居住的个人,并通过具有丰富经验的外联工作者和社区领导人改善了市区的安全。 The Welcoming Streets Initiative, a pilot program in St. Catharines launched in April 2025, has reduced emergency calls, supported unhoused individuals, and improved downtown safety through outreach workers and community leaders with lived experience. 自成立以来,它进行了1 600次商业互动和3 800次社区接触,转移了数以百计的紧急呼叫,并将数千人连接到住房、膳食和精神保健等服务。 Since its start, it has made 1,600 business interactions and 3,800 community engagements, diverted hundreds of emergency calls, and connected thousands to services like housing, meals, and mental health care. 市议会和地方企业以稳定的资金支持继续实施该方案,称该方案具有成本效益,对公共安全至关重要,并敦促尼亚加拉地区获得联邦和省的长期支持。 City council and local businesses support continuing the program with stable funding, calling it cost-effective and vital to public safety, and are urging Niagara Region to secure long-term federal and provincial support.