Crime Prevention Funding Programs
The Canada Community Security Program
The Government of Canada is committed to protecting the safety and security of all Canadians. The Canada Community Security Program (CCSP) replaces and enhances the work undertaken through the Security Infrastructure Program (SIP) to support communities at risk of hate-motivated crime and fund the improvements to increase their safety. Public Safety Canada, which leads the program, has taken feedback from organizations and partners, and designed the CCSP to be more responsive to community needs, address increasing demand for support from communities, and provide more flexibility to organizations seeking financial support.
Public Safety Canada's National Crime Prevention Strategy (NCPS) provides funding to strategically selected projects that contribute to preventing and reducing crime in Canada and to increasing knowledge about what works in crime prevention. In order to achieve its goals, the NCPS identifies specific priorities for project funding.
Building on past successes and lessons learned, the NCPS aims to deliver concrete results in local communities by funding and evaluating interventions to prevent and reduce offending among those most at-risk, especially:
- Children, youth and young adults who show multiple risk factors known to be related to offending behaviour;
- High risk offenders in communities; and
- Indigenous and northern communities, especially those with high crime rates and persistent crime problems.
Within these populations, the NCPS will also target specific priority crime issues such as drug-related crime, youth gangs and gun violence.
Details on the NCPS funding programs are provided in the links below.
Canada Community Security Program
The Canada Community Security Program (CCSP) replaces and enhances the work undertaken through the Security Infrastructure Program (SIP) to support communities at risk of hate-motivated crime and fund the improvements to increase their safety.
Crime Prevention Action Fund
The Crime Prevention Action Fund (CPAF) provides time-limited grant and contribution funding that supports evidence-based crime prevention initiatives in communities that address known risk and protective factors associated with crime among vulnerable groups of the population, especially children and youth from 6-24 years, and chronic offenders.
Northern and Indigenous Crime Prevention Fund
The Northern and Indigenous Crime Prevention Fund (NICPF) supports the adaptation, development and implementation of innovative and promising culturally sensitive crime prevention practices which address known risk and protective factors to reduce offending among at-risk children and youth, and high risk offenders in communities; the dissemination of knowledge and the development of tools and resources for Indigenous and northern populations; capacity building as a means to explore ways to develop or implement culturally sensitive crime prevention practices among Indigenous and northern populations.
Youth Gang Prevention Fund
The Youth Gang Prevention Fund (YGPF) provides time-limited funding for initiatives in communities that prevent at-risk youth from joining gangs, provides exit strategies for youth who belong to gangs, and offers support to youth so they do not re-join gangs, in communities where youth gangs are an existing or emerging threat.
Crime Prevention News Releases
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Minister LeBlanc launches Call for Applications under National Crime Prevention Strategy
October 25, 2024 -
Government of Canada National Action Plan results in 19 per cent decline in auto theft
October 16, 2024 -
International Counter Ransomware Initiative 2024 Joint Statement
October 2, 2024 - More Crime Prevention News Releases
Crime Prevention Publications and Reports
- 2023 Annual National Data Report to Inform Trends and Patterns in Drug-Impaired Driving
- Anniversary of the Release of the Mass Casualty Commission Final Report
- Crime Prevention in Indigenous Communities: An Examination of Culturally-Relevant Programs and Culturally-Competent Evaluation Approaches
- Methods of Preventing Corruption: A Review and Analysis of Select Approaches
- Research Summary - Methods of Preventing Corruption: A Review and Analysis of Select Approaches
- More Crime Prevention Publications and Reports
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