Investing in our Youth: Community Safety and the Role of the Toronto Police Service in Building Healthy Communities

The objective of the project is to develop a framework that will bring police, community agencies and young people in Toronto?s 14 and 51 Divisions together to create, deliver and evaluate a progressive intervention matrix that includes existing and new initiatives designed to promote positive police-youth relations and thereby enhance impact on community health.

Nonprofit organizations are under tremendous pressure to demonstrate outcomes and “value for money” as resources shrink. While this is challenging even in the context of direct service delivery, it is even more difficult when assessing the outcomes of prevention programs whether in public health or crime prevention. There are numerous tricky technical challenges regarding measuring programs? effectiveness, such as establishing a secure counterfactual, attributing responsibility for observed changes to the measures initiated, identifying short and long-term impacts, identifying substantial side-effects, and attaching numbers to costs and benefits of interventions. Many organizations tend to measure before and……..

Faculty Supervisor:

Wendy Cukier

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Partner:

Scadding Court Community Centre

Discipline:

Business

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University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate