The Crime Prevention Division of the Attorney General’s Department provided the following grants:

Safer Community Compact Grants:

Byron Bay Community Safety Committee (Byron Shire Council)
Last Night, First Light Millennium Celebrations
Funds granted: $37,500 from CPD (total grant $130,000)

The Byron Bay Community Safety Committee developed a crime prevention plan aimed specifically at Millennium Celebrations. The project was successful in reducing the number of reported incidents of anti-social behaviour and alcohol related crime. The area received more than twice the number of visitors (estimated at 40,000) in 199 than for the 1998 celebrations. The Committee has reported to the Division indicating that the strategies were successful in maintaining low Accident and Emergency attendance and arrest rates.

Orange City Council
Amount of Grant: $60,060.00

The project attempts to redress the perception amongst many residents in Orange that the CBD area is the principal location for anti-social behaviour. The project will be administered by the Youth Crime Prevention Project located within the Council’s Community Services Section and is set to target two priority issues faced in the Orange Local Government area - malicious damage and property theft.

Kempsey Shire Council
Amount of Grant: $47,000.00

The project aims to address two concerns - anti-social behaviour in the Central Business District and public incivility and anti-social behaviour in South and West Kempsey. These concerns will be addressed through the development of programs such as a Courtesy Patrol to complement existing Police and community youth services and the development of community agreements on meeting places, public drinking and noise limits after 10.00 p.m. The project also aims to assist the promotion of positive relationships between police and local residents.

Lismore City Council
Amount of Grant: $135,343.88 over two years

The Lismore Local Government Area Crime Prevention Plan aims to develop a safer environment in the Lismore area and to improve community safety in the Nimbin. This is to be achieved by monitoring crime in the CBD and using environmental design factors to improve safety and reduce the fear of crime. The plan also proposes to build the community’s image of safety. Lismore Council has adopted a partnership approach to crime prevention and has endeavoured where possible to include local organisations and other government agencies.

Wollongong City Council
Amount of Grant: $118,000.00 over two years

The Wollongong Crime Prevention Strategy aims to address:
· drug and alcohol issues;
· the fear of crime and concerns for safety; and
· young people and public space.
The Strategy will be implemented by the Wollongong City Council in conjunction with the Safe Community Action Team (SCAT). SCAT is a partnership developed by the Council with local businesses, government and community organisations. Wollongong Council will also establish a Youth Advisory Committee. The Committee will increase young people’s participation in local government process and allow them a greater voice in policy and decision making.

Innovative Grants:

The Rural Development Centre, UNE
Property Crime Victimisation and Crime Prevention on Farms
Amount of Grant $76,019.00 over two years

The Project will research property crime in rural NSW in order to develop new policing and crime prevention strategies aimed particularly at farm crime. The strategies will then be included in training programmes for police and farmers and as part of a kit aimed at improving security on farms. There will also be an education programme developed to be introduced into Agricultural Colleges, Universities and TAFE. A similar programme may also be developed for the Police Academy in Goulburn.

Wyong Shire Council
Building Social Capital in New Communities
Amount of Grant: $60,000.00 over two years

This project aims to build a sense of community in two new urban release areas. The Council intends to build a social infrastructure that will provide support to residents and reduce stress amongst families living on the estate. The project will be documented to develop a Practical Guide providing operational details as to the logistics and protocols involved in the trial.

The School of Cultural Histories & Futures, UWS
Young Driver Awareness Training
Amount of Grant: $63,038.00

This project is aimed at changing the degree of cultural acceptance of unsafe driving practices amongst young people (17-25). The project aims to reduce the influence of peer pressure by using workshops to look at the justifications young people have for unsafe driving practices and also what they regard to be good driving practices.

Fairfield City Council
Family Connections
Amount of Grant: $18,250.00

The Family Connections Project, based on the Victorian FAST (Families and Schools Together) project will work with children aged under 11 and their families to improve family functioning and relationships with peers, education staff and the wider community. The project aims to develop strategies and procedural guidelines for inclusion in a training kit to be made available state wide.

The Hunter Star Foundation
Creating Partnerships for Change: Community Problem/Community Solution
Amount of Grant: $120,000.00 over two years

The project aims to develop a best practice model on developing employment skills and business partnerships for young people at risk or who have already had contact with juvenile justice. The project focuses on decreasing detention rates in juvenile detention centres and reducing recidivism of incarcerated young people. The project will be documented to produce a resource that can be used by other communities to assist them in implementing similar programmes.

Specific Grants:

YWCA Young Offenders Mentoring Project Year 2
Location: Parramatta and Coffs Harbour/Clarence
Amount of Grant: $247, 078.00 per annum

This is the second year of a three year project being jointly funded by the Crime Prevention Division and the Department of Juvenile Justice. The Project is conducted by the YWCA Big Sister/Big Brother program and has established a number of supporting relationships between at risk young people and appropriate adult mentors.

Safer Towns & Cities Project
Canterbury Bankstown Year 2
Amount of Grant: $60,000

The project aims to develop a crime prevention plan using a co-ordinated multi-agency approach involving all relevant local services. The plan will be developed to reduce and prevent crimes of concern to the local community. The plan, once completed, can then be submitted for endorsement by the Attorney General as a Safer Community Compact.

Aboriginal Consultation Guidelines
Amount of Grant: $60,000

This project will develop a set of guidelines aimed at assisting local government to effectively consult with and involve Aboriginal communities in the crime prevention planning process. Once developed these guidelines will be distributed to every council within NSW. Applications for this grant closed recently and further details will be available after all applications have been assessed and the successful applicant notified.

Aboriginal Night Patrols
Location: Kempsey and Narrandera
Amount of Grant: $5,000 and $700 respectively

Aboriginal Night Patrols were established in these areas to transport young people in public places at night to their home or some other safe place. These patrols were established to reflect the principle that communities often have the solutions that can effectively address local problems. Both these projects have been successful in providing a consistent and effective service to their local community.

Operational Area Grants:

Miyay Birray Youth Service Inc: Street Beat Project Year 2
Location: Moree
Amount of Grant: $70,450.12

The Moree Street Beat Project has been operating for 12 months. The project has now been extended for a further year. This allows the Miyay Birray Youth Service to continue to provide access to a mobile youth worker and a transport service in Moree after dark.

Ballina District Community Services Association: Street Beat Project Year 2
Location: Ballina CBD
Amount of Grant: $75,000.00

This is the second year of funding for the Ballina Street Beat Project. The project will continue to ensure that a youth worker is employed on the streets of Ballina to work jointly with police, publicans, restauranteurs, young people and their parents to address the issue of young people on the streets at night without proper supervision.

Violence Against Women Specialist Unit - Local Domestic Violence Committee Grants Program 1999/2000
Grants of $600 are provided to Local Domestic Violence Committees in NSW to assist in their activities. The Local Domestic Violence Committee Grants Program is operated by the Violence Against Women Specialist Unit.

Local Domestic Violence Committees funded in 1999-2000

Albury Wodonga Local Domestic Violence Committee

Ballina Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Bathurst Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Batlow Voices Against Violence Committee

Bega Domestic Violence Committee

Blue Mountains Domestic Violence Committee

Brewarrina Community Against Violence Group

Broken Hill Domestic Violence Committee

Byron Shire Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Camden/Wollondilly Local Domestic Violence Committee

Canterbury Local Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Casino/Mid Richmond Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Central Coast Domestic Violence Committee

Cessnock Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Clarence Valley Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Coffs Harbour Domestic Violence Committee

Coonabarabran, Domestic Violence Committee for the Shire of

Coonamble Domestic Violence Committee

Cowra Domestic Violence Committee

Crookwell Women's Health & Safety Committee

Denilquin Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Eastern Suburbs Domestic Violence Committee

Eastlakes Domestic Violence Committee

Eurobodalla Domestic Violence Committee

Far North Coast Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Forster Tuncurry Domestic Violence Committee

Gilgandra Domestic Violence Committee

Glenn Innes Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Grenfell Voices Against Violence

Griffith Local Domestic Violence Committee

Gundagai Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Gunnedah Violence Against Women & Child Protection Action Group

Hastings Domestic Violence Committee

Hawkesbury Action Group Against Domestic Violence

Hills Domestic Violence Committee, The

Hornsby Ku Ring Gai Domestic Violence Committee

Illawarra Committee Against Domestic Violence

Inner West Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Inverell Domestic Violence Committee

Lake Cargellico Domestic Violence Committee

Lithgow Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Liverpool Local Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Lower North Shore Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Macarthur Domestic Violence Committee

Maitland Local Domestic Violence Committee

Manly Warringah Domestic Violence Committee

Manning Valley Domestic Violence Monitoring Committee

Marrickville/Leichhardt Domestic Violence Committee

Monaro Domestic Violence Committee

Mudgee and District Against Domestic Violence

Narrabri Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Nepean Domestic Violence Network

Newcastle Domestic Violence Committee

Orange Domestic Violence Action Group

Outer West Domestic Violence Committee

Parkes Domestic Violence Committee

Parramatta-Holroyd Domestic Violence Committee

Port Stephens Local Domestic Violence Committee

Queanbeyan Domestic Violence Committee

Ryde Hunters Hill Domestic Violence Liaison Committee

Shoalhaven Domestic Violence Committee

South Sydney Domestic Violence Committee

Southern Highlands Domestic Violence Committee

St George Domestic Violence Committee

Sutherland Shire Domestic Violence Committee

Tumbarumba Anti-Violence Group

Tweed Valley Committee Against Domestic Violence

Ulladulla Domestic Violence Committee

Wallsend/Toronto Local Domestic Violence Committee

Western Region Domestic Violence Collective

Young Domestic Violence Committee

Beat Graffiti Grants Program:

Ashfield Municipal Council
Darrell Jackson Gardens

Engage a professional artist and a variety of local young people to do two legal theme murals within a well utilised park in Ashfield. Amount of funding: $6,000.00

Auburn Council
Graffiti Mural Design

Anti waste theme and multicultural graffiti murals to be designed and painted in the Auburn area by local young people. Amount of funding: $11,330.00

Bankstown City Council
Expansion of Moveable Murals and Graffiti Solutions Project

Youth arts program, including aerosol art workshops with tutors covering; art and mural training, voice and drama; community events, murals on Council work vans and selected sites, legal walls, job skills & portfolio development and an education kit. Amount of funding: $15,000.00

Bathurst PCYC
Youth Art Program

Employ an aboriginal artist to run art workshops for aboriginal young people; to produce art works for inclusion in the redevelopment of three bus shelters in Kelso. Amount of funding: $3,960.00

Blacktown City Council
Mt Druitt Aerosol Mural Project

Expand Council's existing graffiti program to include an art project involving local young people painting a mural on a council underpass. Amount of funding: $3,850.00

Blacktown Youth Services & Blacktown PCYC
Youth Mural Project 2000

An aerosol artist will conduct a series of art workshops and mural projects for local young people, including education on illegal graffiti (tagging) and negotiating legal sites. Amount of funding: $14,619.25

Bulli PCYC
Beat Graffiti - Art on the Streets

A youth arts program in conjunction with club cultural activities including: art exhibitions, excursions, working bees for park restoration and aerosol art. Three major project areas Corrimal, Bulli and Thirroul at Police and Community Youth Clubs, parks and Seaside Arts Festival. Amount of funding: $15,000.00

Canterbury City Council
Graffiti Task Force

Employ a designated project co-ordinator and establish two project teams to identify local graffiti issues and hotspots and; to develop a comprehensive training program including artistic and employment related skills for young people, in particular young people who are unemployed and of non-english speaking background. Amount of funding: $15,000.00

Cessnock City Council
Legalised Graffiti Program

Conducting a graffiti audit, educational workshops with a tutor, painting at six legal sites and a graffiti art competition. Amount of funding: $7,890.00

Channel FreeYouth Media Access
Fusion

Provide media training in digital art and involve emerging aerosol artists in a mentoring scheme with established artists in the creation of a legal mural, production of a broadcast quality video and website. Amount of funding: $5,000.00

Cowra Shire Council
The River Park Youth Art Project

Engage a coordinating artist and youth artists to paint a mural on a highly vandalised water reservoir building located near a sports ground in Cowra. Local school aged youth to be involved in submission of designs for incorporation into the mural. Amount of funding: $12,584.85

HomeBase Youth Service Tuncurry
Skate Park Mural

A joint project with HomeBase and Tuncurry TAFE will involve young people in the design and painting of a mural on a newly completed Skate Park. Amount of funding: $5,485.90

Hornsby Shire Council
Graffiti Solutions Project

A comprehensive graffiti management program involving: rapid response at target sites, a graffiti policy, a graffiti reporting hot line to council, establishment of legal sites and a community art project including a workshop, mini-murals and large mural. Amount of funding: $13,000.00

Lane Cove Council
Lane Cove Community Aerosol Art Project

Involve young people interested in aerosol art in the design and production of legal murals. These murals will be painted after the design work with assistance of professional artist and facilitator. Amount of funding: $5,000.00

Maroubra PCYC
Millenium Rug - Maroubra PCYC

Further develop existing arts and crafts program including weekend graffiti art workshops run by a local artist to paint a mural on a carpet for the foyer of PCYC. Amount of funding: $5,354.00

Marrickville Council
Graffiti Solutions Policy and Practice: Marrickville Experience

Contract a project co-ordinator to consult key stakeholders and develop a best practice policy and procedure. Co-ordinate a series of aerosol art workshops with a professional artist and develop accredited training. Amount of funding: $15,000.00

Mission Employment Punchbowl
YALE Youth Art Language Employment

Engage an artist and involve young people in the production of four murals in the Bankstown, Canterbury, Hurstville and Sutherlands areas, providing skills training to disadvantaged young participants. Amount of funding: $7,500.00

North Sydney Council & PCYC
Aeroglyphics

Develop cooperative partnerships between agencies and young people. Improve artistic skills of young people through workshops that culminate in permanent and mobile murals eg. Royal North Shore Hospital and the Neutral Bay Streetscape and related Web page design. Amount of funding: $15,000.00

PCYC NSW Ltd (Burwood Parramatta Penrith)
YATAWS

In conjunction with Youth By Design conduct a series of aerosol art workshops with art tutors at PCYCs at Burwood,Parramatta and Penrith. Project will include displays of artwork, clean up of some graffiti sites, aerosol art murals and a public awareness campaign. Amount of funding: $24,115.00


Port Macquarie PCYC
Stop the Scribble

Expansion of successful Stop the Scribble program to provide legal artistic opportunities for young people at risk. Recruitment of young people to clean graffiti and create murals for community and public art at three sites in the Hastings area. Amount of funding: $5,950.00

Queanbeyan City Council
Graffiti Art Project

A group of young offenders from a high school behavioural cottage will work with experienced street artists to discuss, design and paint six large mural art boards to be installed on the walls of the cottage. Amount of funding: $5,000.00

Riverstone Neighbourhood Centre & Blacktown City Council
Riverstone Youth Development-Beat Graffiti Project

To provide a permanent legal graffiti wall, tuition & alternative art resources including an airbrush and t-shirts for disadvantaged young people in the Riverstone area. Amount of funding: $3,000.00

Shellharbour City Council
Croom Indoor Stadium Good Graffiti Community Art Project

Employ four artists to work with young people including NESB and indigenous communities to produce images for a good graffiti mural - large scale outdoor mural for Croom Indoor Stadium. Also a public awareness campaign and mural celebration. Amount of funding: $6,000.00

Sutherland Shire Council & Sutherland College of TAFE
Cronulla Pedestrian Tunnel

Embellishment of a pedestrian tunnel near Cronulla Railway Station and the ferry wharf. Mural project theme - underwater scene of local Bay areas. Employ tutors, coordinators and lecturers through TAFE. Project involves Youth By Design and local young people. Amount of funding: $15,000.00

Sydney City Mission
Poetry ”n” Motion

A six week series of creative writing, discussion and art workshops around graffiti and an exhibition of these art works. Involving tutors and young people from seriously disadvantaged backgrounds developing artistic and social skills. Amount of funding: $4,928.00

Ulladulla and Districts Blessing of the Fleet Festival Committee Inc
Beat Graffiti Ulladulla SK8 Park

Artists and young people to design and paint murals at the SK8 Park facility which is the centre of national and international youth culture activities, in conjunction with community cultural festival and tourism events. Amount of funding: $5,000.00

Warringah Council
Warringah Graffiti Project

Expansion of successful graffiti project. Employ a well known graffiti artist to coordinate a program of mobile art tutoring sessions and seven murals. Inspect, document and clean up illegal graffiti by council maintenance and graffiti crew participants. Amount of funding: $15,000.00

WAYS Waverley Action for Youth Services
Beach Front Urban Art Project

A program involving skills development, access to education, training and employment for young people involved in the design and painting of a 100 metre theme wall mural at the Bondi Olympic venue. Amount of funding: $15,000.00

Woolloomooloo Youth & Childrens Service Providers Group - Baptist Inner City Ministries
Beat Graffiti

A strategy involving three major projects. Establishment and maintenance of a legal tagging wall; painting a multicultural mural and establishment of a Graffiti Response Team, including a skills program and employment for young trainees. Amount of funding: $15,000.00

Wyong Shire Council
Youth 2000 Arts Program

Engage a community based advisory/management committee. Employ a community artist and guest tutors to mentor and work with young people . Plan and design a mural for the regional youth facility. Assist development of a graffiti policy for the Shire. Amount of funding: $9,433.00

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