Grants and Contributions:
Improve community mobilization, create partnerships for service delivery, and create greater access to resources for future crime prevention projects, in turn increasing access to violence prevention activities and services for at-risk youth in order to reduce youth violence.
The program purpose is to provide support in 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 Aboriginal and northern populations; capacity building as a means to explore ways to develop or implement culturally sensitive crime prevention practices among Aboriginal and northern populations.