Safety

Safety includes physical and mental safety. You live in a community where you have a support network nearby; emergency services are readily and respectfully available when needed; you can walk the streets without fear; there are safe places to go if needed; and the area you live in is relatively crime free.

Barriers

• No full-time police force
• No hospital
• No training for mental health emergencies
• No safe-house
• No transition housing
• No supported housing
• Limited physical and mental health services

Community Vision

Hornby Island is a safe, understanding and trusting community that is respectful of its core values which include: personal responsibility, respectful communication and a variety of local mechanisms for resolving conflict.

Hornby Islanders have little or no need for police intervention, and there is freedom from fear which allows people to leave their doors unlocked and children to play in safety.¹