Dollars Forfeited from Crime To Fund New Crime Fighting Programs

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     Communities across B.C. will share in $500,000 forfeited as a result of unlawful activity.

The new funding program will provide one-time-only grants of up to $20,000 to help prevent and address the effects of crime. Local governments, community and youth organizations, school districts, police departments, victim service programs, Aboriginal organizations and First Nations bands are invited to apply.

The Province will give priority to projects that address one or more of the following:

• Tackle the root causes or risk factors that contribute to crime. These include individual risk factors like a history of violence and substance
  abuse; family risks such as poor parenting skills or family violence;and community risks such as high crime or needed services.
• Respond to local, specified crime issues.
• Increase the ability of victims and community members to fully participate in justice processes, like the opportunities already provided by alternative or restorative justice programs in many B.C.communities.
• Adopt evidence-based community safety and crime prevention approaches that have proven effective in other jurisdictions.
• Focus on the needs of rural and Aboriginal communities.
  

Solicitor General John Les says  the  the fact  the money is coming  out of the pockets of lawbreakers makes the progran even nore satisfying.

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