Crime Prevention Funding Programs
The 2024 Call for Applications under the National Crime Prevention Strategy (NCPS) is now open until December 20,2024.
Visit the How to apply section for more information on program guidelines and application deadlines.
Public Safety Canada's National Crime Prevention Strategy (NCPS) provides funding to strategically selected projects that contribute to preventing and reducing crime in Canada and to increasing knowledge about what works in crime prevention. In order to achieve its goals, the NCPS identifies specific priorities for project funding.
Building on past successes and lessons learned, the NCPS aims to deliver concrete results in local communities by funding and evaluating interventions to prevent and reduce offending among those most at-risk, especially:
- Children, youth and young adults who show multiple risk factors known to be related to offending behaviour;
- High risk offenders in communities; and
- Indigenous and northern communities, especially those with high crime rates and persistent crime problems.
Within these populations, the NCPS will also target specific priority crime issues such as drug-related crime, youth gangs and gun violence.
Details on the NCPS funding programs are provided in the links below.
Canada Community Security Program
The Canada Community Security Program (CCSP) replaces and enhances the work undertaken through the Security Infrastructure Program (SIP) to support communities at risk of hate-motivated crime and fund the improvements to increase their safety.
Crime Prevention Action Fund
The Crime Prevention Action Fund (CPAF) provides time-limited grant and contribution funding that supports evidence-based crime prevention initiatives in communities that address known risk and protective factors associated with crime among vulnerable groups of the population, especially children and youth from 6-24 years, and chronic offenders.
Northern and Indigenous Crime Prevention Fund
The Northern and Indigenous Crime Prevention Fund (NICPF) supports 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 Indigenous and northern populations; capacity building as a means to explore ways to develop or implement culturally sensitive crime prevention practices among Indigenous and northern populations.
Youth Gang Prevention Fund
The Youth Gang Prevention Fund (YGPF) provides time-limited funding for initiatives in communities that prevent at-risk youth from joining gangs, provides exit strategies for youth who belong to gangs, and offers support to youth so they do not re-join gangs, in communities where youth gangs are an existing or emerging threat.
Crime Prevention News Releases
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The Government of Canada invests $4 million to help stop gun violence in Yukon
November 29, 2024 -
The Government of Canada invests in crime prevention in Stratford
November 28, 2024 -
The Government of Canada invests in crime prevention in Elsipogtog First Nation
November 27, 2024
Crime Prevention Publications and Reports
- 2023 Annual National Data Report to Inform Trends and Patterns in Drug-Impaired Driving
- Anniversary of the Release of the Mass Casualty Commission Final Report
- Crime Prevention in Indigenous Communities: An Examination of Culturally-Relevant Programs and Culturally-Competent Evaluation Approaches
- Methods of Preventing Corruption: A Review and Analysis of Select Approaches
- Research Summary - Methods of Preventing Corruption: A Review and Analysis of Select Approaches
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