Presentation: CoDesign and place making

Resources
Resources
- Urban design and crime
  Urban design and crime
  
  Good urban design can help make public places safer.
- CCTV
  CCTV
  
  Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) in public places can be an effective crime prevention tool.
- Graffiti
  Graffiti
  
  Information about addressing illegal graffiti, prevention and removal initiatives in Victoria
- Manage my grants
  Manage my grants
  
  Link to SmartyGrants and key resources to help you manage your project.
- Working with young people
  Working with young people
  
  Useful resources to assist in designing and delivering a project with young people.
- Our research projects
  Our research projects
  
  We are doing research to build knowledge about crime prevention across government and community.
- Building partnerships
  Building partnerships
  
  Resources to consider when establishing and managing your partnership project.
- Crime Prevention Evaluation Toolkit
  Crime Prevention Evaluation Toolkit
  
  The toolkit contains a guide and resources to assist you to evaluate your community safety project.
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The Strategy
The Strategy
- Intervening early to prevent crime
  Intervening early to prevent crime
  
  The Victorian Government’s goal is to prevent crime and keep communities safe by addressing the root causes of offending.
- A joined-up approach to support people and communities in need
  A joined-up approach to support people and communities in need
  
  Collaboration across government, key organisations and with communities is the best way to provide individuals with the right supports to address the risk factors for offending and strengthen social recovery outcomes.
- Working with the community across three action areas
  Working with the community across three action areas
  
  The Strategy will support effective, collaborative efforts to improve outcomes for individuals and communities in Victoria across three interconnected action areas.
- Measuring the impact of our efforts to prevent crime
  Measuring the impact of our efforts to prevent crime
  
  We will monitor and evaluate our progress in addressing risk factors for offending across the Victorian Government.
- Action Area 1: Empower and invest in communities to implement local solutions
  Action Area 1: Empower and invest in communities to implement local solutions
  
  Empower and invest in communities to implement local solutions.
- Action Area 2: Enhance and connect support for people in need
  Action Area 2: Enhance and connect support for people in need
  
  Enhance and connect support for people and communities in need.
- Action Area 3: Evidence and impact for effective and innovative approaches
  Action Area 3: Evidence and impact for effective and innovative approaches
  
  Evidence and impact for effective and innovative approaches.
- How the Strategy was developed
  How the Strategy was developed
  
  The Crime Prevention Strategy has been developed through a whole-of-community and government effort.
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- Go to the Building Safer Communities Program
- Download the Crime Prevention Strategy
Grants and Programs
Grants and Programs
- Youth Engagement Grants
  Youth Engagement Grants
  
  Grants for small multicultural and Aboriginal clubs and organisations to support projects that use cultural connection, sport, arts, music or other creative activities to engage young people.
- Creating Safer Places
  Creating Safer Places
  
  Creating Safer Places supports urban design projects that apply an inclusive environmental design approach to deter crime, increase safety and activate public places.
- Crime Prevention Innovation Fund
  Crime Prevention Innovation Fund
  
  Grants of between $25,000 and $300,000 for councils, not for profit community organisations and other specialist organisations for partnership projects that deliver and evaluate innovative community safety and crime prevention initiatives.
- Empowering Communities
  Empowering Communities
  
  Funding to support innovative, evidence-based approaches to address crime and improve community safety in selected community areas.
- Youth Crime Prevention Program
  Youth Crime Prevention Program
  
  Funding for community-led initiatives that address offending behaviour and recidivism by young people.
- Project Outcomes
  Project Outcomes
  
  Outcomes of crime prevention projects funded under Creating Safer Places, Crime Prevention Innovation Fund and the Empowering Communities partnerships.
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Video presentation on place making and urban design.

This presentation was delivered by Jessica Christiansen-Franks from CoDesign Studios at the 2016 Public Safety Infrastructure Information Forum on place making and urban design.

Download a copy of the presentation below.