Lennox & Addington
Community Risk Watch

We are stronger together and
when we change the focal point of our intervention efforts by moving upstream,
we can alter the course of destiny!

The Lennox & Addington Community Risk Watch Situation Table is a group of emergency services, health, human and justice service providers who meet weekly to discuss situations in our communities where individuals or families are facing multiple risk factors that if left unmitigated, are likely to result in crisis.

L & A Community Risk Watch Situation Table

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Founded in 2015, the Lennox & Addington Community Risk Watch Situation Table is a group of emergency service, health, human and justice front line service providers who meet weekly to discuss situations in our communities where individuals or families are facing multiple risk factors that if left unmitigated, are likely to result in crisis. We call this potential pre-crisis threshold, “acute elevated risk”. It means something bad is going to happen and it is going to happen soon unless we can get in front of it and divert that predictable and destructive path.

One thing that every victim in the world has in common is that moments before they became a victim, they were simply at risk of becoming a victim. The phrase “If it’s predictable, it’s preventable” is perhaps trite but is unremittingly true. We do an amazing job at helping people try to put their lives back together post crisis, but that is like trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. It can be a difficult and messy proposition. By moving our point of intervention upstream we can start to prevent people from harm instead of trying to salve harm that has already occurred.

When a situation is presented to the table participants and there is consensus that someone in our community is facing acute elevated risk, a plan is developed to connect that person to the relevant services within 24 to 48 hours. Usually, a face-to-face contact with the person at risk occurs within a few hours of the situation being brought to the attention of the situation table membership.

The front-line service providers who meet weekly have formed a strong collegial bond that did not previously exist within our health, human and justice services. Members of the situation table can pick up the phone and know with confidence that their community partners will take their call and provide enthusiastic support to any request for help.

When we work together, we are stronger and when we change the focal point of our intervention efforts by moving upstream, we can alter the course of destiny!