Backgrounder

Canada's New Government is serious about keeping our communities safe, which is why we are focusing crime prevention projects on those who are most at risk. Through the National Crime Prevention Centre, we are providing $6.8 million to support 27 crime prevention projects in Quebec for 2007-2008.

Below are the selected projects that will work to prevent and reduce crime in local communities across Quebec:

1. Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ): Du diagnostique au plan d'action en matière de promotion de la sécurité et prévention de la criminalité ($401,697). This project will help municipal and community stakeholders take the results of local safety analysis and turn them into an action plan.
2. Canadian Families and Corrections Network: Service de soutien familial lors de l'évaluation initiale ($140,000). This project will improve correctional staff members' awareness of the needs of inmates' families and inform these families about the resources available to help their family member.
3. Administration régionale de la police du Nitassinan inc.: Initiatives de prévention du crime dans les communautés du Nitassinan ($150,000). This project will promote active involvement by members of the relevant Aboriginal communities to encourage them to take ownership of crime prevention initiatives in their communities.
4. Services sociaux d'Opitciwan: Travailleurs de rue/intervenants jeunesse Opitciwan ($50,000). The project's objective will be to draw up an action plan to prevent delinquency and criminal activity through street work in Opitciwan.
5. Contre Toute Agression Conjugale (C-TA-C): Ayoye III ($60,000). The project will involve setting up an effective intervention program tailored to young people that enables them to become aware of, take responsibility for and make changes to their violent behaviour.
6. Centre d'orientation paralégale et sociale pour immigrants (C.O.P.S.I.) inc.: Un gang sans violence = une collectivité en sécurité ($125,724). The project will foster closer relationships and better communication between young people, parents and adults in the community.
7. Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d'orientation et des psychoéducateurs et psychoéducatrices du Québec (OCCOPPQ): Prévention de l'adhésion aux gangs pour les élèves de 5^e et 6^e année du primaire ($202,893). The organization will increase awareness among older primary school students about the problem of gangs, healthy and equal interpersonal relationships, problem solving and resisting negative peer pressure.
8. Corporation de développement de l'est (CDEST) Inc.: Y'a quelqu'un l'aut'bord du mur! ($137,021). The project will help tackle illegal graffiti and prevent other nuisance behaviours, reduce the public's sense of insecurity regarding graffiti vandalism, offer graffiti artists and troubled young people with alternatives, and provide a space for social and professional involvement tailored to their needs.
9. Éducaloi Les couleurs de la justice ($213,699): Éducaloi and the Regroupement des maisons de jeunes du Québec wish to prevent crime and discourage young people from joining street gangs not only by making them aware of the legal and social consequences of delinquency, but also by encouraging them to develop personal and social skills and allowing them to become positive leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset.
10. POWER Camp National – Filles d'Action: Safer Spaces, Safer Communities: National Training Program ($533,535). This project will help initiate or expand programs similar to the one in Verdun in additional communities across the country. The aim of this project is to develop a training program and manual for young women, teachers and organizations from 30-40 diverse communities across Canada.
11. La Maison des jeunes "par la Grand'Porte": Action Sécurité Qualité de Vie Saint-Michel-Est (ASQVSME) ($150,000). The project aims to counter the impact of street gangs, prostitution and crime on young people and on neighbourhood residents' quality of life and sense of security.
12. Women's Y of Montreal: Making Our Communities Safer for Girls ($156,175). The main objectives of this project are to increase participants' awareness of different types of interpersonal and systemic violence and root causes of gender-specific violence against girls.
13. Le Projet Harmonie: Prévention et intervention en HLM ($41,463) The project's key objectives are to contact and partner with secondary schools, local police, youth centres and CLSCs, as well as encourage parents and young people to take action against violence in community housing involved in the project.
14. Centre Communautaire Jeunesse Unie de Parc Extension: Transition sans exclusion ($50,000). The project aims to prevent young people from feeling isolated and socially uprooted during critical periods in their lives when some young people often associate with deviant peers. It also aims to encourage young people to develop self-esteem and positive attitudes and beliefs by putting them in contact with significant adults.
15. Wapikoni Mobile Corporation: Wapikoni Mobile ($70,000). This project is a motorized studio with the equipment to produce short films will visit seven Aboriginal communities to meet with young people. The mobile studio will visit each community twice and will interact with over 120 young community members.
16. Association des Centres jeunesse du Québec: Le développement d'outils d'intervention visant la préparation à la vie autonome et le soutien à la sortie des jeunes recevant des services jeunesse du Québec ($490,966). The Association des centres jeunesse du Québec, three Quebec youth centres, a number of community organizations, and partners from McGill University, Université Laval, Concovrdia University, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue and the INRS-urbanisation culture et société are pooling their expertise in order to more effectively identify and study the difficulties faced by girls at risk for early pregnancy and Aboriginal youth in integrating into the community, catalogue best practices, and validate and distribute a clinical tool in English and French to assess and develop independent living skills in these two target groups.
17. YMCA of Greater Montreal – Centre du Parc: Alternative Suspension ($421,581). Alternative Suspension is designed for young people who have behavioural problems at school and are expelled, helping them avoid drifting towards dropping out of school and by extension towards possible delinquency.
18. Patro Laval Inc.: L'escouade ($46,817). Through this project, the organization aims to help about fifteen teenagers at risk of delinquency develop skills and positive behaviours, and encourage their ongoing involvement in community leadership activities.
19. Université de Montréal: L'Allié ($292,100). The project aims to develop the social and conflict resolution skills of students with behavioural problems, provide them with additional strategies to resolve problem situations, encourage them to associate with prosocial peers and discourage them from interacting with deviant peers.
20. Prévention Sud-Ouest: Gagner avec ta gang ($76,381). The purpose of the project is to inform students from grades 5 to 12 about the gang problem, to value them and recognize their talents and achievements, encouraging them to forge meaningful bonds with significant adults.
21. Société de criminologie du Québec: 33^e congrès biennal de la Société de criminologie du Québec ($35,000). The 33^rd convention of the Société de criminologie du Québec was held in May 2007 in Quebec City. The thematic workshops during this event addressed such issues as preventing young people from joining street gangs, girls and street gangs, girls and crime, the youth criminal justice system, and the best policies and practices to fight drugs.
22. The Black Community Resource Centre (BCRC): P'tit Police ($748,422). The project aims to deter young children and adolescents from being lured into gangs by offering some of the elements that children find attractive in gangs through more positive group involvement.
23. Université de Montréal: Action intersectorielle pour le développement des enfants et leur sécurité (AIDES) ($1,671,073). The project's mission is to encourage and support cooperation between all networks involved with children and their families in order to simultaneously and more effectively deal with all of the causes of victimization and criminality.
24. L'Association des Centres jeunesse du Québec (ACJQ): La mise en œuvre et l'évaluation de stratégies d'intervention de groupe visant la préparation à la vie autonome et le soutien à la sortie de la prise en charge d'un centre jeunesse ($386,671). This second ACJQ project aims to lower crime rates through better sociological and professional integration of Aboriginal youths and young women at risk of pregnancy who leave youth centres at 18 to live independently.
25. Côte des Neiges Black Community Association / Association de la communauté noire de Côte des Neiges: Implementation of Best Practice Prevention Approaches to Reduce Substance Abuse Amongst Black Youth (7 to 15). ($50,000). This project will be carried out in cooperation with partners such as the Montreal Police. The objective of this project is to strengthen prevention and integrate all of the programs to target Black youth at risk (7 to 15) and their families.
26. Sûreté du Québec MRC de Drummond: Judo P.A.C.C.I.F.I.C ($43,475). Through judo sessions and meetings, the Sûreté du Québec plans to develop young people's sense of responsibility and self-confidence, make them aware of the impact of their actions and teach them to respect others and their environment. In short, cultivate the targeted youth's prosocial attitudes.
27. Conseil des Atikamekw de Wemotaci: Kice Amiskw ($50,143). The main objectives of the project are to prevent students from using drugs and alcohol, make them aware of the dangers associated with using such substances and the negative impacts on their lifestyles, and encourage them to make healthy lifestyle choices, by presenting them with models of personal success based on sobriety and perseverance. The project also aims to teach young people to live in harmony with their peers and with authority.

Total: $6,794,836