The National Crime Prevention Strategy (NCPS) is the policy framework for the implementation of crime prevention interventions in Canada for children, youth and young adults ages 6-30. The NCPS provides funding through key Crime Prevention Funding Programs to:
- Address known risk and protective factors associated with crime among vulnerable groups of the population;
- Respond to priority crime issues or local, targeted and tailored youth violence and youth gang prevention initiatives; and/or
- Increase knowledge about what works in crime prevention.