Saskatoon Wellbeing Employment Enterprise Program (SWEEP)

What is SWEEP?

Saskatoon Wellbeing Employment Enterprise Program (SWEEP) is a collaboration with the City of Saskatoon, aimed at improving safety and well-being through Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. Our services are centred around urban maintenance and neighbourhood revitalization. SWEEP employs community members exiting corrections and/or facing complex barriers to successfully joining the workforce. In addition to stable employment, members of the SWEEP crew receive life skills training and wraparound support from finding housing to reconnecting with family and navigating parole.

What Is Our Crew Up To?

The social benefits of SWEEP are deepened by the nature of the work performed by the crew. Their time is dedicated to tasks that improve overall public safety, cleanliness, and community wellbeing.

For example:

  • Clearing abandoned lots
  • Restoring public fences
  • Cleaning alleys
  • Removing graffiti
  • Repairing sidewalks

Bus Shelter Maintenance

Our crews make daily rounds to City of Saskatoon bus shelters, clearing waste or snow and doing repairs on the shelters themselves.

Graffiti Removal

Our crews work on graffiti removal in public spaces, including restoring public art around the city.

Clearing Out Alleyways

Our crews do weekly rounds to high traffic alleyways in the core neighbourhoods, clearing many tonnes of waste and abandoned furniture etc.

Derelict Property Maintenance

Our crews do mowing and other yard maintenance on neglected properties that have been reported.

Maintenance of Publicly Accessible Sites

Our crews maintain other publicly accessible spaces that see heavy traffic and occupation like the sidewalk in front of Station 20 West.

Want to report waste or graffiti etc.?

City of Saskatoon Customer Care Centre:
Roads, Water, Sewer and Sidewalks Emergency Service – maintenance requests and program information
306-975-2476

City of Saskatoon Safety & Property Maintenance:
Report graffiti, unsafe structures,  open excavations, smoke alarms, junked vehicles, long grass and weeds
306-975-2828

Questions?

Contact our Programs Manager Aaron Timoshyk:
306.978.4041 ext. 237
[email protected]