Appendix 21 - Funds Granted 98/99

The Crime Prevention Division of the Attorney General’s Department provided the following grants for the support of community-based crime prevention initiatives:


Specific Grants:

Lesbian & Gay Anti-Violence Project: Community United Against Violence
Amount of Grant: $200,000.00 over two years

The project seeks to elicit a community-wide response to homophobic violence, and the acceptance of it, with a violence prevention campaign. The project consists of a broad social marketing campaign with four primary focuses: the recruitment of advocates to promote anti-violence messages; training of service providers; development of target group specific resources; and supporting agencies to develop localised violence prevention initiatives, strategies and campaigns.

Western Sydney Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Residential Treatment Service
Amount of Grant: $20,000.00

The service will be run by the Department of Health and will provide a medium-term residential service, as well as an outpatient/day service for young people, aged 14-19 years, with an alcohol or drug problem. It is anticipated that the service will provide: assessment; case management; practical advice and support; individual and group counselling; family interventions; cognitive behavioural skills training; and relapse prevention and vocational education and training, with a holistic approach.

YWCA Young Offenders Mentoring Project
Location: Parramatta and Coffs Harbour/Clarence
Amount of Grant: $247, 078.00 per annum

The project, which is jointly funded by the Crime Prevention Division and the Department of Juvenile Justice, will be conducted by the YWCA Big Sister/Brother program as a pilot project for three years. The project aims to provide positive guidance, support and friendship for young people who have received a police caution or participated in a community youth conference under the terms of the Young Offenders Act 1997. The project will be independently evaluated to assess the efficacy of the project as a crime prevention strategy.

ARTD Management and Research Consultants Young Offenders Mentoring Project Evaluation
Location: Parramatta and Coffs Harbour/Clarence
Amount of Grant: $119,880.00

The project will be evaluating the three year YWCA Young Offenders Mentoring Project to: document and critically assess the processes undertaken by the project; undertake a critical analysis of the success or otherwise of the project’s policies and procedures; design and implement appropriate evaluation measures and instruments; and identify opportunities and barriers for expanding the scheme to cover other locations in New South Wales.

Ashfield Patrol, NSW Police Service: Safer Cities Program
Location: Ashfield and Port Macquarie
Amount of Grant: $76,870.00

The program focuses on the identification of multiple housebreaking victims and high risk residential locations to improve police and community crime prevention. Strategies of target hardening, special police operations, community education and awareness will be employed to reduce the incidence of housebreaking.

Woolloomooloo Crime Prevention and Safety Coordinator
Location: Kings Cross/Woolloomooloo
Amount of Grant: $7,500

The Woolloomooloo Crime Prevention and Safety Initiative is linked to the Kings Cross Place Management Project undertaken by South Sydney Council and the Premier’s Department. The employment of a coordinator was maintained for a further six months to enable the continued implementation of initiatives designed to reduce juvenile crime and the anti-social behaviour of children and young people in the area.


Safe Towns and Cities Projects

Several local councils in NSW are undertaking Safer Towns and Cities Projects, the majority over two years. In each location a crime prevention plan will be developed, documenting a coordinated multi-agency strategy which involves all relevant services to reduce and prevent crimes of concern in the community. The plan will subsequently be endorsed by the Attorney General as a Safer Community Compact. The councils which received grants this year are:

1. Narrandera Shire Council
Amount of Grant: $118,000.00

2. Wellington Council
Amount of Grant: $120,000.00

3. Canterbury Bankstown
Amount of Grant: $60,000.00

4. Manly City Council
Amount of Grant: $100,000.00

5. Gosford City Council
Amount of Grant: $96,200.00

6. Albury City Council
Amount of Grant: $121,000.00

7. Shellharbour City Council
Amount of Grant: $118,902.00

8. Maitland and Cessnock Councils
Amount of Grant: $155,082.00

9. City of Sydney
Amount of Grant: $130,000.00

10. Queanbeyan and Yarrowlumla Councils
Amount of Grant: $130,000.00

Miyay Birray Youth Service Inc: Street Beat Project
Location: Moree
Amount of Grant: $65,434.06

The Street Beat Project will target young people aged 18 years and under by providing a youth worker and transport service on the streets of Moree after dark. The project aims to develop positive relationships, effective risk management, crisis intervention, advocacy and referral services for young people. It will also provide a contact point for police who have to place young people (removed under the Children (Protection and Parental Responsibility) Act 1997) and assist in the transport of young people who must be returned home under that Act.

Ballina District Community Services Association: Street Beat Project
Location: Ballina CBD
Amount of Grant: $68,943.80

A youth worker will be employed on the streets of Ballina to jointly work with police, publicans and restaurateurs, young people and their parents to address the issue of young people on the streets at night. Street Beat workers will be recruited as approved persons under the Children (Protection and Parental Responsibility) Act 1997 and enable young people to be placed under their care, and transported home, when the police have to respond to emergency situations.

Department of Community Services: Temporary Project Workers
Location: Ballina, Moree and Coonamble
Amount of Grant: $60,000.00

Three temporary project officers will be employed to expedite the implementation of operational areas in these locations. The project officers, employed for four months, will assist in the selection and training of approved persons, into whose care the police may pass young people picked up under the Children (Protection and Parental Responsibility) Act 1997.


Safer Community Compact Grants:

Hawkesbury City Council: The Safer Community Project
Amount of Grant: $141,930.00 over two years

The project will build upon and enhance the crime prevention initiatives and projects contained in the Hawkesbury Crime Prevention Strategy: Towards a Safer Community, which aims to work constructively with young people and the community to reduce and prevent crime. A youth access bus will be purchased to expand the existing Youth Transport Project and a youth Street Beat program will be developed. In addition to this, a youth advisory committee will be formed and improved lighting at major social venues will be installed.

Hastings Council
Amount of Grant: $57,000.00

The project will implement three aspects of the Crime Prevention Strategy: employment of a part-time Community Safety Officer to oversee and evaluate strategies; fund literature publication by the Hastings Liquor Consultative Committee for the Know Your Limit public education campaign, aimed at educating drivers about safe levels of alcohol consumption; and youth public arts projects to address issues of conflict, and young people in public space.

Ballina Shire Council: You Can Help Prevent Crime in Ballina
Amount of Grant: $61,174.00

The project aims to provide a social environment in the Ballina community for the implementation of strategies which deal with problems identified in the Ballina Safer Community Compact, ie. to reduce anti-social behaviour and break, enter and steal offences. The project will develop a framework for the prevention of crime, focusing on areas of community education and publicity, opportunities for neighbourhood networking and reducing recidivism.

Moree Shire Council
Amount of Grant: $57,580

The CPD is anticipating an application from Moree Shire Council seeking funding for projects nominated from the Moree Safer Community Compact. Further details will be given when the application has been finalised.