Downsview Roding Neighbourhood Action Partnership

Neighbourhood Improvement Area:

#154 Oakdale-Beverley Heights (formerly known as Downsview-Roding-CFB)
#155 Downsview (formerly known as Downsview-Roding-CFB)

Councillor & Ward:

James Pasternak, Ward 6, York Centre

2018 Priority Actions:

• Participation in Civic Decision-Making: Re-established a local planning and safety table
• Social Development:
  • Developed a community services plan to increase access, coordination, and investment in community services
  • Established a communication plan to increase information sharing between residents, service providers, business, and government

2017 Priority Actions:

• Physical Surroundings: Asset mapped existing programs for youth and established a Youth Space/Programming work group
• Participation in Civic Decision-Making: Promoted youth engagement by holding seven focus groups with youth at Downsview Secondary School,
  Madonna and Pierre Laporte Middle Schools, and three community centres; surveyed over 100 youth
• Economic Opportunities: Provided 62 youth with training in First Aid/CPR, Food Handling and HIGH Five to enhance their employability
• Social Development: Increased programming for youth and the poverty reduction initiative – as a result, three programs were developed for over 85 youth participants

Neighbourhood Action Plan

Each Neighbourhood Planning Table created an Action Plan that reflected each of the Neighbourhood Improvement Areas’s (NIA) priority issues identified by residents and other stakeholders. Residents, local agencies, and other stakeholders provided input to ensure actions were prioritized according to the needs of the community, and to identify the resources that were needed to complete the actions.

The Action Plan below was categorized by the five domains of wellbeing that were central to the Toronto Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy 2020 (TSNS 2020), and were tracked and updated to address changing needs.