Safer Communities
Lighthouses - Funding Criteria
Youth involvement
Inter-agency collaboration and cooperation
Police or Justice personnel support
Activity-based Proposals
Prevention of youth related crime
Youth leadership
Community support
Program outline
Evaluation
Criminal record check
Projects will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- Youth involvement - The core belief of the Lighthouses program
is that youth must be involved in all stages of the program for it to be successful. Proposed Lighthouses
programs must identify youth involvement at all stages including needs identification, development,
implementation and evaluation.
- Interagency collaboration and cooperation - The Lighthouses
program supports the further development of inter-agency collaboration and cooperation. Proposals need to
illustrate involvement by key community stakeholders. This involvement should take the form of a steering
committee. A representative of Lighthouses is available to assist the steering committee in all stages of
development.
- Police or Justice personnel support - Projects are encouraged
to develop a cooperative and collaborative relationship with local police and justice personnel.
- Activity-based proposals - Proposals for activity-based
projects should focus on recreational activities supplemented with educational opportunities such as
conflict resolution, peer mediation and other life-skills training.
- Prevention of youth related crime - Proposals must illustrate
how the project will address the prevention of youth-related crime.
- Youth leadership support - The Lighthouses program encourages
proposals that include support from community agencies with people whose leadership skills will engage and
motivate young people.
- Community support - All proposals must show local community
support, including how better use can be made of existing facilities after hours for activities. Preferred
proposals include those where the community contributes a share of the resources required for the success
of the program. That contribution can be financial or in-kind such as providing access to program space,
office equipment or transportation for youth.
- Program outline - A general outline of the program will be
required. It should include when and where the activities will occur, what kind of activities are planned,
how frequently the program will run and other general operational details.
- Evaluation - Proposals must include a general evaluation plan.
It should include how the program will be monitored to ensure the results that are expected and hoped for
are achieved. The Lighthouses managers will work with program coordinators to develop an effective
evaluation process. Lighthouses will provide quarterly and year-end reporting forms for
program activities.
- Criminal record and Child Abuse Registry check - Everyone,
whether paid or volunteer who will have direct contact with youth through a Lighthouses program must
consent to a criminal record review and a check of the provincial Child Abuse Registry. Forms and
information about processing can be obtained from:
Lighthouses
Community Justice Branch
Manitoba Justice
1505 - 405 Broadway
Winnipeg MB, R3C 3L6
e-mail: richard.kennett@gov.mb.ca
Phone: (204) 945-1549
Fax: (204) 948-2113
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