Crime Prevention Action Fund
The Crime Prevention Action Fund (CPAF) provides time-limited funding to assist communities and organizations in two specific areas:
- Developing and implementing crime prevention initiatives that address known risk and protective factors associated with offending behaviour. To learn more about these risk factors, see Risk and protective factors. These projects will support evidence-based interventions aimed at reducing offending among at-risk children and youth, and high risk offenders in communities. These projects focus on the delivery of direct interventions.
- Developing and implementing knowledge transfer initiatives that focus on the application of research-based evidence to inform crime prevention practice. These projects may take the form of tool and resource development, testing and dissemination, conferences, workshops, colloquiums, other training or innovative approaches to the transfer of knowledge about crime prevention.
Evidence-based approaches rest on two main characteristics: a) they clearly establish the links between identified risks, interventions and outcomes and b) they use the knowledge base of evaluated interventions.
Our priorities are to:
- address early risk factors among vulnerable children and youth at risk;
- respond to priority crime issues (e.g. youth gangs, drug-related crime);
- prevent recidivism among high risk groups; and
- foster prevention in Aboriginal communities
Main Objectives:
- To support evidence-based models and promising practices which address known risk and protective factors to reduce offending among at-risk children and youth, and high risk offenders in communities
- To support the dissemination of knowledge and the development of tools and resources related to effective crime prevention projects; and
- To support innovative projects to explore ways of responding to known risk and protective factors related to offending among at-risk children and youth, and high risk offenders in communities.
Outcomes:
Short term outcomes:
- Targeted at-risk individuals and populations are reached through support and interventions provided by projects;
- Knowledge of effective crime prevention resources, tools and best practices is increased
Intermediate outcomes:
- Positive changes in risk and protective factors among at-risk children and youth are realized;
- Positive changes in risk and protective factors for youth at risk of involvement in crimes such as those related to gangs and drugs are realized;
- Positive changes in risk and protective factors for high risk offenders in communities are realized; and
- More effective strategies to prevent and reduce crime are utilized; knowledge about what works is applied in practice.
Ultimate outcomes: Reduced offending among identified populations
Project evaluation
Evaluation is a key activity in the implementation of the National Crime Prevention Strategy. In addition to the regular monitoring and reporting required of all funded projects, the NCPC supports robust and rigorous evaluation of selected projects or groups of projects. The NCPC provides assistance to develop evaluation plans that are appropriate to the type of project being undertaken.
The results of project evaluations contribute to building the evidence and knowledge about effective crime prevention. Through project evaluations, the NCPC identifies promising and innovative crime prevention practices and approaches. The dissemination of knowledge obtained from evaluations enables people in communities, policy-makers and program designers to develop more effective crime prevention initiatives, locally and nationally. For more information on project evaluation, please see NCPC publications – Building the evidence.
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