National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention - Funding - Brief Article

Community Action, April 15, 2002

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Catholic Community Services, Montreal. For its Urban Trail Special Project: Making Waves. To assist students and teachers in recognizing and reporting violence in couples' relationships in schools, the organization will invite them to a symposium on the subject. Participants will be able to take part in different awareness workshops and develop specific projects in their communities in order to enhance student awareness of this issue. The intention is to give young people the tools they need to become leaders who will have a positive impact on their fellow students. 514-937-5351 x241 $7,055

Centre des Femmes du O Pays, Lac-des-Aigles. For its project, Mieux comprendre pour mieux aider, which will provide hairdressers and estheticians with information concerning the behaviour of women who are victims of spousal abuse and the resources that can assist them. The project's main objectives are to help overcome prejudice against women who are victims of spousal violence, to develop the capacities of female business owners as natural helpers and to increase community support in terms of the prevention of violence and victimization. The Centre will prepare and distribute an awareness kit on these two issues and conduct an awareness tour among hairdressers and estheticians. 418-779-2316 $38,643

Centre de Femmes de la Vallee de la Matapedia inc., Amqui. For its project, On s'aime d'egal a egal, which involves promoting relationships of equality between boys and girls aged 12 to 16 who attend Florimont comprehensive high school. The project is also intended to enhance awareness among parents, teachers and the general public of the issue of spousal and family violence. In conjunction with the Regional County Municipality of Matapedia local co-ordinating committee on conjugal and family violence, the organization will prepare an overview of violence in relationships between male and female students. Various activities will take place, such as the organization of workshops and the design and distribution of a poster with the students. 418-629-3496 $25,152

Le Centre d'initiatives pour le developpement communautaire, L'Unite, of Saint-Laurent, To support the development, delivery and continuity of the Pacific Path (and Projet cour d'e-cole) program in two multi-ethnic primary schools. The project will encourage young people at the schools to use peaceful methods of conflict resolution and mediation and to take responsibility for, and initiate, intervention with their peers. The Centre will hire two resource people whose mandate will be to promote the program and to ensure that the coordinating committee responsible for it in the school, as well as the teachers, get acquainted with it. The project will also seek to ensure that other local schools, and the community at large, are aware of the Pacific Path program as an effective way of promoting non-violence. 514-744-1239 $50,000