On May 3, 2023, Public Safety Canada announced more than $25 million to fund new projects under the Community Resilience Fund (CRF). These projects include:
Project title: Shift BC
Total funding amount: $3,191,504.65
This is a five-year intervention-based project designed to reduce violent extremism in British Columbia. They will work with individuals who may be at-risk of or involved in violent extremism activities. The intent of the Shift BC program is to address the risk of Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism (IMVE) events and to promote public safety by providing vulnerable individuals with multi-sectoral interventions, thereby countering the root process of radicalization-to-violence at the individual level. The project aims to address grievances, remove risk factors, add protective factors, promote societal integration, provide pro-social alternatives to violence, and connect participants with tailored services and supports.
Recipient: Living Skies Centre for Social Inquiry
Project title: Partnership Enhancement: Identifying Opportunities and Removing Barriers to Multi-Sector Collaboration in the Prevention and Intervention of Violent Extremism
Total funding amount: $99,250.00
This is a two-year research project that aims to help prevent and counter violent extremism by building the capacities of stakeholders in prevention/countering violent extremism (P/CVE) who work with vulnerable individuals to better formulate partnerships with human service providers. Over a two-year period, the project will work to identify evidence-based and experience-driven solutions to common pitfalls and promising opportunities in multi-sector collaborative efforts to prevent/counter violent extremism, as well as to better equip frontline practitioners and support more effective collaboration between sectors. The project's main goal is to identify lessons learned, develop resources, and share knowledge that helps P/CVE stakeholders build effective, lasting relationships with human service providers.
Recipient: Yorktown Family Services
Project title: Estimated Time of Arrival
Total funding amount: $3,279,188.00
The project is a mobile, interdisciplinary model that helps young adults and adults through engaging and redirecting people that are on the pathway to grievance-based violence related to violent extremism. The program deploys rapid, mobile mental health and integrated care for people at-risk of radicalization to violence. The project aims to support participants in reconnecting with their communities in a positive way by providing social and emotional support and connecting them to a variety of services. The project will expand the model to additional communities in southern Ontario, to engage with individuals between the ages of 12 to 35 who might be involved with, at-risk of, or in the early stages of violent extremist activity.
Recipient: Digital Public Square
Project title: Community Trust and Strengthening IMVE Interventions by Countering Misinformation
Total funding amount: $1,380,073.00
