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Backgrounder: Funded Projects for 2008 National Victims of Crime Awareness Week

To help commemorate National Victims of Crime Awareness Week 2008, up to $5,000 per project was provided through the Victims Fund to those projects that advance the goals of the Week.

The following is a list of projects that received funding to host events during National Victims of Crime Awareness Week.

• Organization: BAYNet Inc.
  Location: Bonavista, Newfoundland
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse (CCASA)
  Location: Calgary, Alberta
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Calgary Police Service Victim Assistance Unit
  Location: Calgary, Alberta
  Amount: $4,700.00

• Organization: Canadian Association for Victim Assistance
  Location: Coquitlam, British Columbia
  Amount: $2,000.00 (2007/2008), $3,000.00 (2008/2009)

• Organization: Central Okanagan Elizabeth Fry Society
  Location: Kelowna, British Columbia
  Amount: $4,940.00

• Organization: Centre d’aide aux victimes d’actes criminels Côte-Nord
  Location: Sept-Îles, Québec
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Centre de Ressources et d’Intervention pour Hommes Abusés Sexuellement dans leur Enfance (CRIPHASE)
  Location: Montréal, Quebec
  Amount: $3,000.00 (2007/2008), $2,000.00 (2008/2009)

• Organization: Centre Passerelle pour femmes du Nord Ontario
  Location: Timmins, Ontario
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Child Abuse Prevention and Counselling Society of Greater Victoria
  Location: Victoria, British Columbia
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Crime Prevention Ottawa
  Location: Ottawa, Ontario
  Amount: $4,500.00

• Organization: Delta Police
  Location: Delta, British Columbia
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Fraser Region Coordinating Committee
  Location: Chilliwack, British Columbia
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Information Services Vancouver
  Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
  Amount: $4,880.00

• Organization: Inuvik Victim Services
  Location: Inuvik, North West Territories
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Lanark County Community Justice Program
  Location: Perth, Ontario
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Law Courts Education Society of British Columbia
  Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
  Amount: $2,000.00 (2007/2008), $3,000.00 (2008/2009)

• Organization: Lesser Slave Lake Indian Regional Council
  Location: Slave Lake, Alberta.
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Listuguj Community Health Services
  Location: Listuguj, Québec
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Long-term Inmates New in the Community. (L.I.N.C.)
  Location: Abbotsford, British Columbia
  Amount: $2,700.00

• Organization: MADD Canada
  Location: Ottawa / Toronto, Ontario
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Manitoulin Northshore Victim Crisis Assistance & Referral Service
  Location: Little Current, Ontario
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Mediation & Restorative Justice Centre – Victim Issues and Impact
  Location: Edmonton, Alberta
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Nelson Police Victim Services
  Location: Nelson, British Columbia
  Amount: $4,900.00

• Organization: Northern Region Victim Services – Saskatchewan
  Location: La Ronge, Saskatchewan
  Amount: $4,400.00

• Organization: Ottawa Police Services
  Location: Ottawa, Ontario
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Pic Mobert First Nation Social Department
  Location: Mobert, Ontario
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Regina Women’s Community Centre
  Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
  Amount: $2,101 (2007/2008), $1,604 (2008/2009)

• Organization: Rainy River District Victim Services Program
  Location: Fort Frances, Ontario
  Amount: $3,500.00 (2007/2008) $1,500.00 (2008/2009)

• Organization: Service d’aide aux victimes d’actes criminels de l’Outaouais
  Location: Gatineau, Québec
  Amount: $4,730.00

• Organization: Service d’aide aux victims d’actes criminels Marthe Vaillancourt
  Location: Chicoutimi, Québec
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Services de Counselling Hearst-Kapuskasing – Smooth Rock Falls.
  Location: Hearst, Ontario
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: South West Victims Services
  Location: Swift Current, Saskatchewan
  Amount: $1,380.00 (2007/2008), $3,450.00 (2008/2009).

• Organization: Temiskaming & District Victim Crisis Assistance & Referral Service
  Location: New Liskeard, Ontario. 
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Vancouver Island Men’s Trauma Counselling Society
  Location: Victoria, British Columbia
  Amount: $3,393.00

• Organization: Vancouver & Lower Mainland Multicultural Family Support Services Society
  Location: Burnaby, British Columbia
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Victim Services of Brant
  Location: Brantford, Ontario
  Amount: $3,600.00 (2007/2008), $1,400.00 (2008/2009)

• Organization: Victim Services of Middlesex County
  Location: Strathroy, Ontario
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Victim Services Sarnia Lambton
  Location: Sarnia, Ontario
  Amount: $5,000.00

• Organization: Victim Services Unit (Association) Sturgeon Region
  Location: Morinville, Alberta
  Amount: $4,115.00

• Organization: Victim Services Wellington
  Location: Guelph, Ontario
  Amount: $3,525.00 (2007/2008), $3,525.00 (2008/2009)

• Organization: Williams Lake Community Policing Committee and MADD Canada
  Location: Williams Lake, British Columbia
  Amount: $3,050.00

• Organization: Women Against Violence Against Women Rape Crisis Centre
  Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
  Amount: $5,000.00

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Department of Justice Canada
April 2008