Community Social Needs Resourcing Strategies

Whereas existing provincial funding and resource models are based on strong partnerships between all levels of government, there is an unaddressed need to provide flexibility in funding allocation to address unique and complex localized health, housing, and social needs. And whereas the current provincial funding structure does not provide flexibility to support local governments to adapt and design locally relevant and responsive strategies and solutions based on local real-time conditions to effectively address unique community complex social needs. Therefore be it resolved that UBCM urge the Province to design a flexible funding program and resource model that enables local governments to develop and implement strategies which align with, and respond to, unique local context and conditions of social issues and needs of the respective local governments.