Building Safer Communities – Gun and Gang Violence Prevention

• Developing a 3 year strategic plan to prevent gun and gang violence. The plan will include:
  • Research - Developing knowledge to fill gaps at the community level including research, consultation, and best practices related to gun and gang violence prevention;
  • Consultations – Community consultations with various groups are being conducted to facilitate the integration of different experiences, worldviews, and ways of knowing in the development of Nanaimo’s strategy. Consultations will include engaging with service providers, newcomers, Indigenous community members, parents and families, as well as young people.
  • Developing local and community based strategies and initiatives (to be delivered in Years Two, Three, and Four);
  • Developing systems to support data gathering and evaluation of results achieved from the plan;
  • Developing a plan to sustain successful preventative initiatives or intervention activities beyond the end of the Building Safer Communities funding;

• Providing public awareness and education of local gun and gang crime:
  • Public education – An education and awareness campaign is being developed to engage youth, parents and community to bring awareness to both the risk factors and the protective factors associated with gun and gang violence. 
• Conducting outreach and recruitment of vulnerable youth for preventative initiatives and intervention (referrals for programs implemented in Year Two, Three, and Four);

• Delivery of prevention and intervention programs and initiatives addressing risk factors associated with gun and gang violence;
• Performance Monitoring (as identified in evaluation and data systems identified in 3 year plan submitted in Year One);

• Delivery of prevention and intervention programs and initiatives addressing risk factors associated with gun and gang violence;
• Performance Monitoring (as identified in evaluation and data systems identified in 3 year plan submitted in Year One);
• Implementation of a sustainability plan.

For more information, please contact:
christiane@morebetter.solutions.ca
audrey@safercities.ca
christy.wood@nanaimo.ca

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