4. CRIME PREVENTION OTTAWA – ACTION REPORT 2007-2008; REPORT ON THE OUTCOMES OF THE 2007 CPO FUNDED PROJECTS AND REPORT ON CPO FUNDING ALLOCATIONS 2008

PRÉVENTION DU CRIME OTTAWA – RAPPORT D’ACTION 2007-2008, RAPPORT SUR LES RÉSULTATS DES PROJETS FINANCÉ PAR PCO 2007 ET RAPPORT SUR LES ALLOCATIONS DE FONDS PCO DE 2008

Committee Recommendation

That Council receive the following documents for information.

Recommandation du Comité

Que le Conseil reçoive les documents ci-joint à titre d’information.

Documentation

1. Deputy City Manager's report City Operations, dated 30 October 2008
ACS2008-CCS-CPS-0038).

2. Extract of Draft Minutes, 6 November 2008.

Report to/Rapport au :

Community and Protective Services Committee

Comité des services communautaires et de protection

and Council / et au Conseil

30 October 2008 / le 30 octobre 2008

Submitted by/Soumis par : Councillor Jacques Legendre

Contact Person/Personne ressource : Nancy Worsfold, Executive Director /

Directrice générale, Prévention du crime Ottawa

Crime Prevention Ottawa

(613) 580-2424 x28518, Nancy.Worsfold@ottawa.ca

City-Wide/ À L'échelle De La Ville

Ref N°: ACS2008-CCS-CPS-0038

SUBJECT:	CRIME PREVENTION OTTAWA – ACTION REPORT 2007-2008; REPORT ON THE OUTCOMES OF THE 2007 CPO FUNDED PROJECTS AND REPORT ON CPO FUNDING ALLOCATIONS 2008
OBJET :	PRÉVENTION DU CRIME OTTAWA – RAPPORT D’ACTION 2007-2008, RAPPORT SUR LES RÉSULTATS DES ProjetS FINANCé PAR PCO 2007 ET RAPPORT SUR LES ALLOCATIONS DE FONDS PCO DE 2008

REPORT RECOMMENDATION

That Community and Protective Services Committee and Council receive the following documents for information.

RECOMMANDATION DU RAPPORT

Que le Comité des services communautaires et de protection et le Conseil reçoivent les documents ci-joint à titre d’information.

BACKGROUND

In the three years since Crime Prevention Ottawa came into existence significant progress has been made to building a long term vision for reducing crime and victimization in our community.

On April 19 2007 the Community and Protective Services Committee approved the Crime Prevention Ottawa Terms of Reference and received their Strategic Plan (ACS2007-CCS-CPS-0006 refers). This report is our second annual update on our progress towards delivering on that plan.

DISCUSSION

On 20 October 2008 the Board of Directors for Crime Prevention Ottawa approved an Action Report 2007-2008. The Action Report highlights some of the successes of Crime Prevention Ottawa:

• Crime Prevention Ottawa has been successful in leveraging funds – the federal government has awarded CPO two grants but more importantly CPO has successfully lobbied for Ottawa’s fair share of provincial funds for community agencies for a running total of $909,045 since our inception.

• Ottawa Youth Gang Prevention Initiative: CPO in partnership with the Youth Services Bureau and Police, is working towards a comprehensive prevention strategy based on a four component approach: Healthy Neighbourhood Cohesion, Early Prevention, Intervention and Suppression. Milestones to date include two public forums and two educational conference as well as the report “Now is the Time to Act: Youth Gang Prevention in Ottawa.”

• Making neighbourhoods safer: CPO launched “Together for Vanier – Ensemble pour Vanier” that has snowballed into community based projects including: community clean up days, problem property identification, increased reporting to police, 4 new neighbourhood watches, “Eyes on Vanier Walkabout”, a farmers’ market and more. The galvanized community has led to “a significant reduction in the number of crack houses in the Vanier area,” says District Insp. Alain Bernard of the Ottawa Police Service.

• Ending Violence Against Women before it starts: CPO has worked succesfully with Ottawa's two largest school boards to implement “The Fourth R,” a comprehensive and proactive curriculum for Grade 9 students that provides coping skills on dating violence, sexuality, substance abuse and violence. We continue to work towards implementation in the other two Boards.

• Investing in Community Programs that work, for example:
• Weekly sessions with over 20 aboriginal children led to increased skills and decreased interpersonal conflicts.
• 60 youth received anger management services, 17 successfully re-integrated into school following a suspension, 20 successfully completed criminal justice diversion, evaluations showed significant overall improvements in control and frequency of anger
• Over 1,000 people learned how to reach out safely to families experiencing domestic violence.
• No Community Left Behind, supported by CPO from 2006-2008, became so successful it has been adopted as a model City wide.

• CPO Offers learning opportunities: From publications to workshops to public forums, CPO has provided crime prevention information to over 2,000 community members, raising awareness and increasing community participation.

• Advocating for policy solutions to crime, CPO rallied the community for “Safer Communities and Neighbourhood’s” legislation, which is now a private members bill.

• CPO goes to the root causes of crime before it happens. We want to stop reacting – and we all know how expensive that is – and start preventing.

LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE

Preventing crime and reducing the number of victims of crime is a long term process that must engage a wide partnership. From parents to community associations, from schools to businesses, from police to faith groups all of us have a part to play in making our community safer. Crime Prevention Ottawa, with a committed Board of Directors that encompasses City, Police, School Boards, the United Way, child protection, business and the community is a unique leadership body which is making strides in the community.

Hard economic times and financial uncertainty have historically been associated with increases in crime and disorder. In order to avoid new problems in our community we need the sustained commitment of all partners to a vision of Ottawa which is safe for families, individuals and communities.

In the next year Crime Prevention Ottawa will complete the Ottawa Youth Gang Prevention Strategy – this partnership of 60 stakeholders will work to ensure that the scourge of youth gangs does not grow in our community. We will also complete a report with recommendations about how to make best use of crime prevention through environmental design in Ottawa. And finally we will engage the community in more discussions and consultations as we complete our first strategic plan and work towards new and exciting directions.

CONSULTATION

Crime Prevention Ottawa engages the community through multiple channels. The CPO Community Forum is the formal mechanism for seeking feedback on our work. This is a group which was established through our terms of reference as a consultation group. CPO also issues a regular email update entitled CPO Communiqué which has a distribution list of over 1,000 concerned citizens and key stakeholders. Finally, CPO organizes regular public events, all of which are evaluated, in order to engage the community in preventing crime.

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

N/A

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION

Document 1: Action Report 2007-2008 (English) (French)

Document 2: Report on the Outcomes of the 2007 CPO Funded Projects

Document 3: Report on CPO Funding Allocations 2008

DISPOSITION

Council and Committee Services to forward the report to Council for information.

CRIME PREVENTION OTTAWA – ACTION REPORT 2007-2008; REPORT ON THE OUTCOMES OF THE 2007 CPO FUNDED PROJECTS AND REPORT ON CPO FUNDING ALLOCATIONS 2008

PRÉVENTION DU CRIME OTTAWA – RAPPORT D’ACTION 2007-2008, RAPPORT SUR LES RÉSULTATS DES PROJETS FINANCÉ PAR PCO 2007 ET RAPPORT SUR LES ALLOCATIONS DE FONDS PCO DE 2008

ACS2008-CCS-CPS-0038 CITY WIDE / À L'ÉCHELLE DE LA VILLE

Councillor Cullen stated that he wished to make a comment and apologized that he had to leave during the presentation due to another commitment. He stated that Crime Prevention Ottawa is doing a great job and wants to see them continue doing this great work.

Councillor Legendre stated himself and Nancy Worsfold, Executive Director of Crime Prevention Ottawa would present this report. He said a few items would be covered such as what crime prevention is, what Crime Prevention Ottawa is, some of the projects and major activities of the agency and finally the leadership role in action. A copy of their PowerPoint presentation is held on file with the City Clerk’s office.

Councillor Bédard stated that Crime Prevention Ottawa is underselling themselves. He believes they should indicate all of the meetings that have been held and the number of volunteers that they have inspired. They are to be congratulated along with the police for accomplishing so much especially in his communities in Vanier and Lowertown East. He strongly believes that more funds are required for prevention not just in enforcement. The taxpayers are getting very good value for their money with this organization.

Councillor Legendre thanked his colleague and pointed out Professor Waller in the audience who was instrumental in urging municipalities and other levels of government across the country that when considering funding for enforcement that they also consider a like component to prevention. That awareness needs to be raised.

That Community and Protective Services Committee and Council receive the attached documents for information.

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