Community safety tools
There are many excellent resources and tools that can help you and your neighbours create a safer community. This section includes checklists, guides and resources to help you on your way.
In 2004, Abid Jan took on a big challenge. Working at the South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre, Abid was asked to conduct community leadership training. The problem was there were no community members willing to participate. Abid started looking into this and quickly discovered a high level of fear and intimidation among community members whose lives were being terrorized by gangs and violence in their neighbourhood.
Upon learning this, Abid decided it was time to take action. He researched existing and successful crime prevention and community engagement models from the United States, the United Kingdom and others and with the help and collaboration of his community, he put together a plan. That plan became No Community Left Behind, an innovative program that encourages social development planning at the neighbourhood level in order to reduce and prevent violent crime, drug abuse, and gang activity in high-crime neighbourhoods.