The City of Toronto established a 36-member citizens' reference panel to produce a set of recommendations to address public concerns over the location and operation of proposed supervised injection service sites.
CASE
Toronto Residents’ Reference Panel on Supervised Injection Services
August 4, 2020 | Joyce Chen |
August 8, 2019 | Scott Fletcher Bowlsby |
January 2, 2017 | alexandralava |
October 3, 2016 | alexandralava |
- General Issues
- Health
- Social Welfare
- Specific Topics
- Public Safety
- Addiction Treatment & Management
- Substance Abuse
- Scope of Influence
- City/Town
- Start Date
- End Date
- Ongoing
- No
- Time Limited or Repeated?
- A single, defined period of time
- Approach
- Consultation
- Spectrum of Public Participation
- Consult
- Total Number of Participants
- 36
- Open to All or Limited to Some?
- Mixed
- Recruitment Method for Limited Subset of Population
- Stratified Random Sample
- Targeted Demographics
- Stakeholder Organizations
- General Types of Methods
- Deliberative and dialogic process
- Public meetings
- General Types of Tools/Techniques
- Facilitate dialogue, discussion, and/or deliberation
- Recruit or select participants
- Inform, educate and/or raise awareness
- Specific Methods, Tools & Techniques
- Citizens' Reference Panel
- Civic Lottery
- Roundtable Discussion
- Stakeholder Group Process
- Expert Advisory Panel
- Legality
- Yes
- Facilitators
- Yes
- Facilitator Training
- Professional Facilitators
- Face-to-Face, Online, or Both
- Face-to-Face
- Types of Interaction Among Participants
- Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation
- Ask & Answer Questions
- Teaching/Instructing
- Information & Learning Resources
- Expert Presentations
- Participant Presentations
- Decision Methods
- General Agreement/Consensus
- Communication of Insights & Outcomes
- Public Report
- Public Hearings/Meetings
- Primary Organizer/Manager
- City of Toronto
- Type of Organizer/Manager
- Local Government
- Type of Funder
- Local Government
- Staff
- Yes
- Volunteers
- Yes