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Solicitor General Solliciteur général Canada Canada Ministry Secrétariat Secretariat du Ministère / NATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION WEEK 1987 ALBERTA/NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Final Report Consultation Centre Centre de consultation HV 7431 R53 1988 NATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION WEEK 1987 ALBERTA/NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Final Report 4 , NOV 2 1993 . .›. .1011. :CI IE sCetlire:_11 GE.N:;,:::. rANADA GI TAM, (OE ITAiie0) i KM OP8 Prepared by: Janice Richter NCPW Coedinator Alta/N.W.T. Region January 1988 NATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION nEK ALBERTA/NORTHWEST TERRITORIES FINAL REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION ALBERTA Crime Prevention Awards Crime Prevention Youth Conference National Youth Conference Media Community Activities - Calgary - Coaldale - Fort McMurray - Grande Prairie - Peace River - Fairview - Spirit River - Pincher Creek - C.F.B. Cold Lake - Spruce Grove - Medicine Hat - Red Deer - Edmonton Conclusion NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Introduction Pre-National Crime Prevention Week Planning Crime Prevention Youth Conference Youth-Elder Crime Prevention Program Other Community NCPW Activities Media Crime Prevention Awards Conclusion NATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION WEEK 1987 Alberta/Northwest Territories Regicn Final Report EXECUTIVE SUMMARY National Crime Prevention Week 1987, from November 1-7, 1987, focused on substance abuse and the role that youth can play in crime prevention. Each year since 1983, the Ministry of the Solicitor General, in cooperation with community groups, police, business, governments, and professional and voluntary associations, sponsor a week highlighting crime prevention activities. The province of Alberta and the Northwest Territories have been active participants in this Week for the past five and three years, respectively. This year there was an increase in interest and participation by communities throughout the two regions. The key this year appears to have been cooperation, primarily inter-agency cooperation in the south and inter-generational cooperation in terms of youth-elder programs in the north. Inter-agency cooperation was ever prevalent in the Albertan crime prevention campaign, fram the Medicine Hat 'Youth Waves II - Police and Youth Together We Can Make a Difference' Conference and 'Myths and Realities About Crime' Conference in Red Deer to Albertans for Crime Prevention Workshops in Red ter and an inter-agency crime prevention 'mixer' in Edmonton. In all cases throughout the province police departments and R.C.M.P. detachments played a significant role in either networking with other crime prevention agencies or offering their services and expertise in lectures and mall displays. Geographical representation and crime prevention awareness touched every quadrant of the province. A provincial crime prevention youth conference called Youth Waves II - Police and Youth Together ïe. Can Make a Difference was hosted by the Medicine Hat Police Service, in conjunction with the Solicitor General of Canada. The event, attracting three hundred and ten youth from across Alberta, focused on teenage suicide, family violence and victims, and substance abuse. Three days of crime prevention discussions, exchanges, and fun, from October 30, 1987, to November 1, 1987, kicked off National Crime Prevention libek in Medicine Hat. Albertans for Crime Prevention, a communications network whose provision was to unite police and volunteers through Alberta, met in two workshop sessions. Once prior to the Week and a second time on November 1, 1987, in conjunction with the Crime Prevention Awards ceremonies. The November 1st workshop, for crime prevention volunteers and professionals, saw workshops on various aspects of the topic substance abuse and highlighted two innovative crime prevention activities which sprung up in 1987. These activities were the production of the video "The Last Party" by Students Against Driving Drunk in Pincher Creek and Echo Mortal, a teenage theatrical group working with the Sherwood Park R.C.M.P., who address impaired driving issues through short skits. 2 Solicitor General of Canada Crime Prevention Awards were presented this year to CHED Radio Station for their extensive and innovative campaign against impaired driving; Edmonton Police Venturers, a police group who put in numerous hours of volunteer time preparing an anti-bicycle theft campaign and participating in 'Park Watch'; Edmonton Cooperative Policing Program was rewarded for strengthening the ties between the business community and the Edmonton Police Department; and Pat Truchan for her exceptional volunteer contribution to the Edmonton Block Parent Association. The Northwest Territories approached their third National Crime Prevèntion Week awareness through traditional mall displays and school talks, as well as through youth-elder programs. Due to the makeup and distribution of this northlands population, it was deemed necessary to approach crime prevention from an unconventional manner, that of youth-elder programs. Yellowknife, Inuvik, Fort Smith all had crime prevention poster contests and school talks to highlight this Week. In Prelude Lake, a youth conference took place for youth from around the Territory. The conference, hosted by the Y.W.C.A. and the Solicitor General of Canada, was entitled Act Locally... Think Globally. Speakers from the R.C.M.P., Sir John Franklin High School in Yellowknife, and the Coordinator of Teenagers Against Crime (T.A.C.) from Standoff in southern Alberta met and facilitated sessions at the conference. The youth-elder programs for Natives of the region approach crime prevention through sodlal development. In a region where people of Dene and Unuit descent form the majority of the population, frustration and boredom, possibly caused through cultural alienation, is common. Feelings, it is theorized, which have led to criminal activity. It is to this end that we address crime prevention in the Northwest Territories. Elders taught the youth some cultural traditions in their Native languages to help the youth gain some cultural identity. Solicitor General of Canada Crime Prevention Awards were presented to the N.W.T. Mental Health Department in Inuvik for their batterers' program and to Kingait Aulatsivik in Cape Dorset for their program dealing with alcohol, drugs, and young offenders. Overall, National Crime Prevention Week 1987 in Alberta and the Northwest Territories was a success with many new and innovative activities and programs arising and an increase in the number and distribution of people interested and becoming aware of crime prevention practices. 3 INTRODUCTION National Crime Prevention Week 1987 was celebrated from November 1-7, 1987. Now in its fifth year, National Crime Prevention Week (NCPW) is beginning to be recognized as a significant activity in the criminal justice system. This year there was an increase in interest and participation by communities throughout Alberta and the Northwest Territories. The key this year appears to have been inter-agency cooperation, with agencies and organizations in various communities working together to produce activity agendas for National Crime Prevention Week. In all cases the local police departments and R.C.M.P. detachments played a significant role in either networking with other crime prevention interested agencies or offering their services and expertise in lectures and mall displays. National Crime Prevention Week %ms designed to promote awareness and participation in crime prevention. It is also the time when individuals and organizations who have made outstanding contributions in the field are recognized for their efforts and time. Geographically speaking, participation in the Week came from communities over a wider area than in past years. Northern Alberta was more active in promoting crime prevention awareness during the Week than in previous years. Each year a theme is chosen for National Crime Prevention Week activities. This year substance abuse was chosen to be highlighted by both the Solicitor General of Canada in a national campaign, as well as by Albertans for Crime Prevention. This theme provided focus for those crime prevention programs that help to combat crimes relating to the use of illegal