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STATUS REPORT 2001-2002
IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 41 OF THE
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES ACT
Annex B
LIST OF NATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION CENTRE (NCPC) FUNDED PROJECTS FOR 2001/02
The National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention (NSCSCP) which is overseen by the National Crime Prevention Centre (NCPC) is aimed at developing community-based responses to crime and victimization, with a particular emphasis on children and youth, Aboriginal people and women. The Safer Communities Initiatives (SCI) which represents a component of the NSCSCP is made up of grant and contribution programs that promote a social development approach and support initiatives that aim to identify the root causes (risk factors) of crime and victimization.
The objectives and priority directions being pursued by the NCPC's funding programs are as follow: The Community Mobilization Program (CMP) supports community-based efforts to foster community partnerships to deal with crime and victimization, to increase public awareness and support for crime prevention, and to increase the capacity of communities to deal with crime and victimization; The Crime Prevention Investment Fund (CPIF), identifies, implements and evaluates new social development, community-based approaches to crime prevention by identifying crime risk factors; The Crime Prevention Partnership Program (CPPP), encourages non-government organizations to develop information, tools and resources that facilitate community involvement in all phases of crime prevention; and The Business Action Program on Crime Prevention (BAPCP), encourages the private sector to get involved, or to continue its involvement, in crime prevention in their communities by expanding upon existing corporate efforts to prevent crime and reach out to new partners in crime prevention
Partnerships - Crime Prevention
British Columbia
FILE #: 3510-B15 (303814)
TITLE: Silent and Invisible: What's Age Got to Do With It
Organization name: B.C./Yukon Society of Transition Houses
Province: British Columbia
This project will provide a number of different tools and resources to help meet the needs of older women who have been affected by domestic violence. The first part of the project will be to create a curriculum for 2 days of specialized training for front line workers and personnel working in the justice system. The curriculum will be written by one of the project partners, the Justice Institute, with input from the project advisory committee.
The second component of the project is to produce a 12-minute docu-drama and study guide, which will examine 4 scenarios:
- The continuation of domestic violence in later life;
- Violence in a new relationship in later life;
- A medical reason for physical or emotional abuse (i.e. Alzheimer's disease); and
- Abuse by adult children.
The study guide will elaborate on each section in the video and offer solutions for healthy change, examples of what actions supportive people can do for abused older women and other resources. Copies of the video and guide will be available in both English and French.
Finally, the sponsor will implement a public awareness campaign to educate the public about the issue of domestic abuse involving older women. This will involve developing and distributing a safety tip card to older women and an educational brochure. The brochure will contain important information on how to recognize the signs of older women who are being abused. The brochure will be distributed to medical professionals, service providers, justice system personnel and business.
The goal of this 2-year initiative is to help to decrease and prevent the incidence of domestic violence among older women and to raise public awareness about this issue.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $100,000.00
FILE #: 3510-R02 (303817)
TITLE: Truth
Organization name: Rotary Club of Burnaby - Deer Lake
Province: British Columbia
Still Water Productions are producers of teenage docu-dramas and as such, have done extensive work with schools and has determined that peer pressure is of prime concern to youth. The sponsor is seeking funding to develop and produce a 22-minute video for use in schools. The video will explore the themes of peer pressure and privileged information. The film will tell the story of the pressure and moral conflict that can arise when one is given privileged information that can put another at-risk. The question becomes "How does one guard a confidence that necessarily puts a friend in danger? How does one decide what to do?"
Shoplifting is a major concern to business and communities. In the film, the main character has a good relationship with a local merchant. When he learns of a plan by some of his peers to rob the store, he is faced with a moral dilemma. How can he protect his shopkeeper friend without "ratting" on his "friends"?
The primary objective of the proposal is to open a dialogue with students about the nature of secrets, confidences and privileged information. The film will not provide answers to these questions, but will serve as a starting point for future discussion and debate. A teachers' guide will be produced and will offer topics for discussion, project and assignment suggestions and a reading list. The film will be produced in English and French.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $60,000.00
Ontario
FILE #: 3540-C63 (303736)
TITLE: Action on Crime Prevention: A Multimedia Profile of NCPC Pilot Projects
Organization name: Canadian Policy Research Networks Inc.
Province: Ontario
The project will use television and the Web to reach out to people at risk of committing crimes or of becoming victims of crime. This undertaking will communicate the objectives of the National Strategy, create resources for organizations that deal with people at risk, and provide tools to help track best practices. A written analysis of the profiled projects will be published by CPRN in English and French, and widely promoted to policy and decision-makers across Canada.
The Family Network of CPRN and Learning and Skills Television Alberta through its channel CourtTV Canada will collaborate to produce the following:
- Video profiles of six NCPC projects will be broadcast in English (a French version will also be produced) over a two-month period and direct viewers to a web site created for the project;
- A half-hour documentary highlighting the six profiled NCPC projects;
- A web site profiling the projects with descriptions in English and French;
- A "chat event" scheduled to coincide with the initial release of each televised video feature;
- An interactive web survey;
- A detailed analysis of the web survey results which will be summarized twice and provided to NCPC for planning and evaluation purposes; and
- A Discussion Paper that describes and analyzes the projects that are profiled.
CPRN will work with designated staff of the NCPC to select a maximum of 10 representative projects from across the country that could be profiled. The selection will require diverse projects that apply innovative approaches to crime prevention through social development. CourtTV Canada will make the final selection of six projects to profile from the agreed upon short list. The six videos will be shot in locations across Canada in popular documentary style and be broadcast in a series over a two-month period.
The Discussion Paper will describe and analyze the six projects that are featured. The analysis will be policy relevant and framed in the context of crime prevention through social development.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $200,000.00
FILE #: 3340-R15 (300944)
TITLE: Mobilizing Together to Prevent Crime in Our Children
Organization name: Regroupement des femmes immigrantes francophones
Province: Ontario
The purpose of this project is to carry out a study on crime (mainly on its underlying causes) by conducting a partly structured survey among 10 African Francophone families. During this survey, questions such as the following will be asked: What would be the most appropriate approach to dealing with the issue of young offenders and intervening with them? Which approaches prevail in the young offenders' cultural background? And, what can be done to prevent youth crime? The sponsor will pilot a series of seven workshops, which will deal with topics such as the following: parental roles and crime, drug addiction and alcoholism, youth and the streets, the media, violence in schools, young persons facing problems with alcoholism and drug addiction, and expulsion from school. A pamphlet on Canadian law, youth criminal justice and a summary of existing resources will also be translated into some African dialects. This project will give families the means and resources necessary to fight against crime and victimization in their community.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $45,000.00
FILE #: 3540-F09 (303821)
TITLE: Peer Youth Worker : crime reduction project within an integrated literacy program working with street-involved youth
Organization name: Frontier College
Province: Ontario
The peer worker project will directly enhance the majority of the protective factors that are generally accepted as necessary for preventing crime and victimization. The project will integrate these factors into its Beat the Street literacy programming and through increased social support, social bonding and skills acquisition for at-risk youth
In addition to the enhancement of protective factors for the 24 street-involved youth who will be trained as peer workers, there will be a substantial ripple effect on the other youth in the Beat the Street programs. Other youth will be encouraged to emulate the role models offered by the peer youth workers. As the youth workers will be integrated into the on-going Beat the Street service delivery, many youth will have opportunities to interact with the peer youth worker. For this reason a positive outcome is foreseen for these youth in terms of relations with "pro social" peers. Other youth will also experience an increased sense of belonging because they will experience youth leadership positions within the Beat the Street program.
The goals of this project are to:
- train 24 street-involved youth as peer youth workers and place them in the program for 6 months;
- enhance the protective factors of these youth to increase their chances of further success in "next steps" such as employment, further training or education, meeting basic needs in shelter;
- conduct outreach activities to other street-involved youth with the aim of involving them in Beat the Street learning programs;
- involve 24 adult volunteer tutors in the delivery of this project;
- develop a training syllabus and materials for violence prevention with street-involved youth based on the above objectives 1- 4;
- assist the participants to produce violence prevention tools that can be used by other programs. Each of the four groups that will be trained in six month modules will produce such resources. e.g., photography, writing, web site material, original music and lyrics. These tools will reflect the youth's experience of violence and their own solutions for overcoming it;
- document the processes and outcomes of the project and share lessons learned with other agencies;
- produce a translation into French of the processes and outcomes of this project; and
- distribute the tools and resources through the national network of Frontier College programs. This will include posting a downloadable document site in both official languages on the college's web.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $88,000.00
FILE #: 3540-H07 (303806)
TITLE: HOW TO Handbook
Organization name: Hispanic Development Council and Latino-Canadian Community Association of Scarborough (Deliverer)
Province: Ontario
The sponsor will develop a user-friendly handbook, which will be available in English, Spanish and French and will provide parents, guardians and foster parents with strategies and suggestions for addressing behaviour that may lead to future criminal involvement. The general objectives of the proposal are: To provide parents, guardians and foster parents with education, knowledge and empowerment, so that they can take preventative and proactive measures to address situations caused by gang membership, violence and crime; and To foster social inclusion among youth through positive strategies to address youth violence. The sponsor will conduct a literature review, focus group and structured interviews to provide the baseline data for the handbook. Families will be referred through the sponsor and its partners, and will be invited to participate in a series of focus groups. Families who wish to participate in the process will be included in a series of focus groups to discuss crime, abuse, relationships, family dynamics and violence. The project team will develop a structured set of discussion topics and the ideas discussed will be analyzed and incorporated into the handbook. Following the focus groups the sponsor will conduct a series of key interviews with other parents and families, who were not able to participate in the focus groups. The interviews will take place in Toronto, London, Kitchener, Ottawa and Montreal, and will use the same discussion items and questions that were examined during the focus groups. The sponsor will use this data to produce a handbook which will provide parents with resources on how to address substance abuse, violence, relationships, bullying, peer pressure and self identity, and tips for establishing and maintaining healthy supportive relationships with their teens. A listing of service providers will be provided in the handbook to provide resources for additional assistance. After the resource has been developed the sponsor will offer a series of coaching workshops, which will run every two weeks for a year. The workshops will provide parents, guardians and foster parents with training to use the handbook and an opportunity to network with other parents and share ideas and challenges.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $58,000.00
FILE #: 3340-C097 (300944)
TITLE: Développement d'une structure communautaire francophone de prévention du crime: Phase I
Organization name: Le Cercle Culturel OKAPI de l'Ontario
Province: Ontario
The focus of this project is to conduct a needs assessment in the francophone community in Toronto. Over 200 families will be contacted through a survey, which will be administered by project staff. The data will serve as the foundation for the development of a crime prevention plan that is focused on addressing the concerns and priorities of the community. In addition to this, a community conference will be held to challenge incorrect perceptions about crime, discuss its consequences and generate prevention strategies. The conference will also help improve the relationships among ethnocultural francophone families through mutual information sharing.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $25,000.00
FILE #: 3340-G12 (300944)
TITLE: STOP!
Organization name: Le Groupe Jeunesse Francophone de Toronto
Province: Ontario
This project is the first phase of a three-year initiative to combat crime. Its focus is to conduct a needs assessment among young francophones in various ethno-cultural communities around Toronto. Along with focus groups, a survey will be developed to determine the most frequent crimes among these youth and the factors/causes involved. To gather this information, the sponsor, Le Groupe Jeunesse Francophone de Toronto, will administer the survey using semi-directed, open interviews with 20 francophones that are between the ages of 14-26. This information will then be used to develop a culturally sensitive model of crime prevention that will help reduce the crime rate among these young people. The model will also be shared with other communities through the sponsor's contact network of community agencies, schools, hostels, human resource centres, the private sector and the sponsor's website.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $35,000.00
FILE #: 3340-R23 (300944)
TITLE: Crime Intervention Project
Organization name: Réseau des femmes du Sud de l'Ontario Durham Region
Province: Ontario
This project aims at decreasing barriers for Francophone women who are victims of violence in Durham Region by identifying the gaps in local social services on the linguistic level. All primary documents, such as policies, procedures manuals, information documents on shelters, directives, mandates of organizations and information pamphlets will be translated for shelters, law enforcement services, housing and financial services and will be provided to all service providers. Workshops will be offered in Francophone schools, specifically Saint Charles Garnier, Corpus Christi, Notre Dame de la Jeunesse and Antonine Maillet, and in Francophone community centres as well. The topics of these workshops will include negotiation techniques, meetings, violence, social assistance and policies on reporting cases of violence and abuse, services for victims, etc. This program will be completed during a community forum with representatives from Francophone schools, parent committees and community centres.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $40,800.00
FILE #: 3340-S52 (300944)
TITLE: Summer at Victory
Organization name: Sudbury Better Beginnings Better Futures
Province: Ontario
Parents in the Donovan and Flour Mill neighbourhoods of Sudbury have identified problems of violence, bullying, vandalism, drug use, gangs, criminal behaviour and peer pressure amongst their pre-teen children. The goal of this project is to help these pre-teens become strong, positive leaders in the community. Four days a week, between 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., children aged 9 to 13 will gather at Victory Playground for a wide range of activities. Two days will be for francophone children and the other two, for anglophones. The young people, with the guidance of adult leaders, will decide on a couple of areas in the community that need cleaning and beautifying. They will clean and plant flowers in these designated areas. The children will also participate in outdoor sports and have the opportunity to participate on a camping trip. Furthermore, local police will provide educational workshops to the kids on different topics related to law. Overall, this project will help Sudbury pre-teens take control of their lives, build leadership, pro-social, and problem-solving skills, as well as respect for themselves, others, and the environment.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $10,200.00
Quebec
FILE #: 3550-U03 (301365)
TITLE: Crime Prevention in the School Environment: a Situational Approach
Organization name: Université de Montréal (École de Psychoéducation)
Province: Quebec
Professor Janosz and his team have put together an assessment instrument to meet the needs described above. The questionnaire is designed for students, teachers, management, professional and support staff in the school as well as parents to measure the nature and extent of problems observed at school (violence, drugs, theft, etc.), the quality of the environment and educational practices. It should be noted that the content of the instrument is based on North American literature, and that some aspects of the questionnaire were inspired by the work of D. Wilms, a renowned researcher at the Université de Moncton, N. B. It remains to validate and standardize the tool, to create a guide for analyzing and interpreting the results, and to develop a standardized training program on the use of the tool. Thus, first, the project aims to validate and standardize an instrument and an assessment protocol for the school environment to assess the socio-educational potential of the environment and to target priority zones of intervention with respect to teaching strategies, learning content, coaching and recognition systems, value system and participative and relational systems. A first questionnaire was developed and preliminarily tested for Francophone secondary schools. The questionnaire is scheduled to be adapted for elementary and Anglophone school environments. Sampling will be done in both rural and urban areas. The second component of the project is the development of a training program on intervention in the school environment. Finally, a list of existing interventions in the school environment could be prepared, if the NCPC so desires.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $110,000.00
FILE #: 3350-F43 (300943)
TITLE: Conference : Partnerships for the prevention and intervention in elder abuse and mistreatment
Organization name:Foundation for Vital Aging
Province: Quebec
This project consists of organizing and holding the first conference in Quebec on the prevention of and intervention in elder abuse and mistreatment. The conference will last two days and will be in French and English. The applicant organization expects about 250 people to attend and get involved from such various fields as health, social services and justice. In addition, the project is counting on multidisciplinary representatives from various regions in Quebec and resource persons from cultural and aboriginal communities to participate.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $49,800.00
FILE #: 3350-M094 (300943)
TITLE: Jeunes anglophones et francophones se réconcilient
Organization name:Maison des Jeunes de Rawdon L'Excuse
Province: Quebec
This project is aimed at Anglophone and Francophone youth, aged between 12 and 18, who feel in conflict with peers from a different language background, and who display their strife by committing acts of denigration and violence against those peers. The sponsoring organization sets out to facilitate and foster acceptance of differences by emphasizing things that are common to all youth despite their different language background. It intends to achieve its objectives through various educational, cultural and sporting activities organized by a round table made up of community partners. The sponsoring organization expects to organize discussion groups, stage a play and offer weekly improvisation evenings where the two language communities will be encouraged to use humour to demystify their conflicts. In addition, the project intends to train young mediators and organize an exhibit and a meeting with police officers from the Sûreté du Québec dealing with crime in their community.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $34,162.00
Prince Edward Island
FILE #: 3345-E09 (300940)
TITLE: Virtues Language and Crime Prevention
Organization name:Evangeline Community Consultative Group (ECCG)
Province:Prince Edward Island
This project consists in organizing training workshops and presenting a program that was devised by Drs. Linda and Dan Popov. This spiritual program, The Virtues Project: Tools for Transformation, teaches psychosocial skills, such as anger management, self-esteem, interpersonal relations and ways to communicate effectively and overcome difficulties. Évangéline is a rural community mainly made up of Francophones. A good number of residents receive employment insurance during the off-season period, considering that employment is mainly seasonal. Often, community members have a hard time finding services in their language of choice. The training sessions described above will therefore be offered in both official languages. Community members who would like to attend these training sessions are welcome to do so and this program will attempt to attract youth, parents, educators and the private sector. The Virtues Project video will be broadcast on the community television station to allow people who cannot attend the training sessions to still benefit from them. We hope that after having participated in these training activities, community members will forge better relationships with one another and that the community will be strengthened.
Commitment Type: Committed
Fiscal Year: 2001/02
Commitment Amount: $12,000.00
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