The forfeiture program’s distributions for 2021 include $100,000 for Candace House’s Healing Haven and Safe and Informed Spaces programs that aim to support victims and survivors of crime; $10,000 for Rossbrook House Inc.’s programs that seek to prevent involvement in the criminal justice system and to offer opportunities for overcoming systemic levels of poverty, racism and inequity; $20,000 for the Canadian Centre for Child Protection’s initiatives to protect children from sexual victimization and to reduce crime; $25,000 for Altona Youth for Christ’s expansion plans for the creation of a “maker space” area for at-risk youth; and $33,000 to KIDTHINK Children’s Mental Health Centre Inc.’s SNAP program that aims to provide children and their caregivers interventions for ending the cycle of violence.
Friesen said that, also through the…
