Deadline: 7-Oct-21
Nominations are now open for the Crime Prevention Ottawa Awards to nominate a person, group, program or collaboration that is making Ottawa a safer city to live in.
Award Categories
- Volunteer Award: The nominee must be a dedicated volunteer and must have demonstrated their commitment to the community through outstanding contribution toward crime prevention and community safety.
- Volunteer Program Award: The nominee must be an all-volunteer program that has made an exemplary contribution in the area of crime prevention and community safety. Contributions could include innovative approaches to addressing crime problems, beautification and community pride projects, or unique volunteer partnerships or initiatives designed to aid in crime reduction.
- Community Program Award: The nominee must be a non-profit program that has made an exemplary contribution to increasing community safety through crime prevention. Contributions could include developing innovative projects for youth, domestic violence prevention, substance abuse prevention, neighbourhood renewal or any other crime prevention project.
- Leadership Award:The nominee may be in a paid or volunteer capacity working for a school board, hospital, community group or other non-profit agency and who has provided exemplary leadership in their community in the area of crime prevention and community safety.
- Business Award: The nominee should be a business or businessperson who has shown leadership in crime prevention by building partnerships, or providing resources, assistance and/or program contributions.
- Youth Leadership Award: Children or youth nominated for this category should be positive role models for other children or youth in their community with outstanding leadership skills. They should be actively involved in crime prevention and community safety projects in the broader community or at school. The nominee should be under 25 years of age as of December 31, 2021. Programs can be considered in this category if they are youth-driven, actively engage youth in leadership positions and are designed to make a difference in the lives of other youth.
- Enforcement Professional Award: The nominee must be an individual who has provided exemplary leadership in crime prevention within an enforcement context including, but not limited to, the Ottawa Police Service, OC Transpo Security, OPP, RCMP, Ottawa Community Housing Safety Services or a private security firm.
- City Employee Award: The nominee should be a City of Ottawa employee (including OC Transpo and the Ottawa Public Library) that has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the area of promoting and implementing crime prevention strategies within their field of work.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can nominate any person, group, program or collaboration you feel has made an outstanding contribution to community safety in Ottawa. The nominee must have been involved in creating a safer community for a minimum of two (2) years.
- Crime prevention leaders represent all walks of life—they are volunteers, city staff, community leaders, teachers, non-profit organizations, police officers, programs, youth and much more. They all have one thing in common: they are passionate about making Ottawa a great place to live.
- Given the unprecedented events of the past two years with COVID-19 and worldwide support for social justice, they welcome nominations that might also highlight a person, group or program’s involvement in initiatives that have served to build a better, safer, more inclusive city.
For more information, visit https://www.crimepreventionottawa.ca/neighbourhood-toolkit/take-action/crime-prevention-ottawa-awards/