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Jenn Thompson Activism and Advocacy
Based out of Calgary Alberta

10/08/2026

ALBERTA — HAVE YOUR SAY!

Alberta's Vulnerable Persons Alert listening sessions have opened an important conversation, and community feedback matters.

Whether you attended a session or have additional perspectives to share, you can submit written feedback addressing five key questions:

WHO — Who needs an alert?
Who should qualify, and how should vulnerability and risk be assessed?

WHAT — What information should an alert include?
What details would help the public locate someone while protecting their privacy and dignity?

WHEN — When should an alert be activated?
What circumstances should trigger an alert, and who should make that decision?

WHERE — Where should alerts be distributed?
How should geographic targeting and search areas be determined?

WHY — Why should an alert be issued?
What constitutes imminent risk? What factors should be considered when determining whether a missing person's circumstances warrant a public alert?

HOW TO SUBMIT WRITTEN FEEDBACK

Send an email to:

[email protected]

Suggested subject line: Vulnerable Persons Alert — Written Feedback

In your email:

Introduce yourself briefly, including any relevant lived or professional experience.

Explain your concerns, experiences, or recommendations.

Include any specific examples or suggestions you believe should be considered.

Ask that your written submission be included in the feedback collected through Alberta's Vulnerable Persons Alert engagement process.

You do not need to address every question or prepare a formal policy document. A few thoughtful paragraphs can communicate valuable information.

This discussion needs to focus on how an effective system should actually function.

Eligibility. Activation. Geographic targeting. Public notification. Community response.

These are the operational decisions that matter.

Your experience matters. Your questions matter. Your input matters.

ONE FRAMEWORK. ONE SYSTEM. ONE MISSION.

Parent Partnership Project
YourAlberta (Government of Alberta)
Mike Ellis

10/06/2026

Request for Vulnerable Person Alert Listening Sessions

Hello,

I am writing to ask your government to hold public listening sessions on the development of a Vulnerable Person Alert, similar to the sessions now being held in Alberta.

Families, first responders, advocates, and people with lived experience should have a meaningful opportunity to help shape how these alerts work in their communities.

Please consider bringing these conversations to your province or territory and ensuring the public has a voice in developing an effective response for missing vulnerable people.

Please respond to confirm whether your government will consider holding Vulnerable Person Alert listening sessions, and advise what next steps will be taken.

Thank you for your time. I look forward to your response.

09/26/2026

There is a difference between having an opinion about a system and speaking with authority about what it is like to navigate it.

If you have never relied on a service, never sat through its intake process or waited on its waitlist, and never lived with the consequences when it fails, be careful about telling the families who have what "the truth" is — or isn't.

This matters more when you have a platform. When an influencer with an audience says a system is working, or that families' concerns are unfounded, or that a barrier doesn't exist, people believe it. Other families believe it. Decision-makers believe it. And the families actually living it are left fighting the system and the story being told about it.

Research matters. Professional expertise matters. Policy knowledge matters. Lived experience matters too.

You can support an agency and still take families seriously when they tell you something is broken. You can respect the people working inside a system without assuming the system always works the way it's supposed to.

You don't have to have lived it to care about it. But if you haven't, don't speak over the people who have, and don't use your platform to make broad claims about families' experiences that you can't support with evidence.

When their experience conflicts with what you assumed, start by asking why, not by speaking over them.

When you learn that what you have been asking for already exists and someone else has built it, you don't change your message - you support their work or you move on.




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