Project Advisory Committee

This project was directed by a tri-provincial advisory committee composed of the following individuals. RESOLVE Alberta is indebted to the Advisory Committee for their contributions and expertise that informed the resource manual:

• Leslie M. Tutty, Ph.D., Principle Investigator, Academic Research Coordinator; RESOLVE Alberta, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary
• Cathryn Bradshaw, M.S.W., Project Manager;

• Wilfreda E. Thurston, Ph.D., Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary;
• Doris Toy-Pries, Youth Violence Prevention Coordinator, Calgary Action Committee Against Violence;
• Mary Ellen Dewar, Calgary Board of Education;
• Lee Tunstall, Ph.D., Prairieaction Foundation, Calgary; Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary;
• Debra Tomlinson, M.S.W., Provincial Coordinator, Alberta Association of Sexual Assault Centres;
• David Este, Ph.D., Associate Director (Research), Cultural Diversity Institute, University of Calgary;
• Lynn Meadows, Ph.D., Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary;
• Wendy Josephson, Ph.D., University of Winnipeg, Department of Psychology;
• Shannon Dobko, B.Ed, Educational Consultant, Saskatoon Outlook Shared Services;
• Sharon Perrault, Associate Director RESOLVE Manitoba; Director of Operations, Aboriginal Health & Wellness Center, Winnipeg.
• Jocelyn Proulx, Ph.D., RESOLVE Manitoba, University of Manitoba;
• Margaret MacDonald, MSW, RSW, Emotional-Behavioural Specialist, Edmonton; Student Health Initiative Partnership; specializing in serving people who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing;
• Kendra Nixon, MSW, Community Resource Development Coordinator, RESOLVE Alberta.

National Crime Prevention Centre – Crime Prevention Partnership Program

We thank the National Crime Prevention Centre, Crime Prevention Partnership Program (CPPP), for funding this project. The CPPP is one element of the National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention. This national strategy endeavors to support the involvement of organizations that can contribute to community-based crime prevention activities (needs assessment, development of plans, implementation and evaluation) and that can be applied across Canada (see http://www.crime-prevention.org).

The basic premise of the CPPP is that the best way to deal with the underlying causes of crime and victimization, and to, thereby, contribute to a safer society, is to provide communities with supports and resources and to address crime prevention through social development. Developing tools and resources that help communities to address the risk factors and root causes associated with crime and victimization is a main thrust of the CPPP.

This project was one of the 9 projects funded from across Canada on a variety of issues related to the theme of this Call. The views expressed in this Resource Manual are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Crime Prevention Council.

Programs Developers, Providers and Researchers

A special thank you to all the many prevention program developers, providers and researchers who participated in this project through providing information about the prevention programs and research included in this manual, as well as many others whose programs were not included for one reason or another.

RESOLVE Alberta

This has been a project of RESOLVE Alberta. RESOLVE is a tri-provincial prairie research institute on family violence and abuse with offices in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse) grew out of the University of Manitoba Centre on Family Violence and Violence against Women that was funded in 1993 for a five-year period by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Health Canada.

In 1997, with assistance from the Honourable Senator Sharon Carstairs, the Manitoba Research Centre began exploring ways to secure long-term funding. Community agency representatives and academics from Alberta and Saskatchewan decided to join forces with Manitoba to create a tri-provincial research institute on family violence. Each province has a Steering Committee that guides the research mandate and activities specific to the interests of their area. The RESOLVE Regional Council meets quarterly to deal with matters specific to the tri-provincial institute. Dr. Jane Ursel of the University of Manitoba is the director of the RESOLVE network.

RESOLVE is affiliated with seven universities in the prairie provinces: the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Saskatchewan, the University of Regina, the University of Manitoba, Brandon University and the University of Winnipeg. Funding to support the infrastructure of RESOLVE is generously provided by the Prairieaction Foundation: www.prairieactionfoundation.ca/main.

RESOLVE Alberta, with its office at the University of Calgary, began conducting research in 1999. It has completed a number of evaluations with respect to violence prevention, bullying programs, training workers with respect to abuse in lesbian relationships, girls and young women sexually exploited through prostitution and school personnel’s perceptions of violence prevention programs. We are currently conducting a study comparing the justice response to family violence across the three prairie provinces funded by SSHRC. Email RESOLVE Alberta: resolve@ucalgary.ca or see the RESOLVE web-site at: http://www.umanitoba.ca/resolve/

Translation

We would like to thank Marie-Anne Delye Payette for translating the materials from this project. Marie-Anne has lived in Algeria, France, England, Spain, Switzerland and Canada. With a degree in translation from Geneva University (Switzerland), she won a competition opened by the Canadian Government. Marie-Anne has studied and worked in Canada for the past thirty years. After working as a translator for the Federal Government, she now does freelance work, including regularly for the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Marie-Anne can be contacted at (819) 685-0923 or via e-mail at: madp@altern.com.

This site last updated: 23 September, 2002

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