Through our Lighthouses Program funding program, the Department has been able to help several community groups establish and further local crime prevention programs. Please read through their stories, and find out how they put great ideas together with community support to offer young people safe and constructive places to be, learn and grow.

The following organizations currently receive Lighthouses Program funding:

• ArtsExpress: Youth on the Radar
• Bay St. Lawrence Community Centre: Youth-Seniors Time Banking Project
• New Germany Area Promotion Society: Teen Place Youth Nights
• Annapolis Valley Regional Library: Teen Zone
• Leave Out Violence: Media Arts Program
• Nova Scotia Sea School Society: North-End Youth Boat Building & Sailing Project
• Community Justice Society: Voices of Change
• Chapel Island First Nation: Potlotek Youth Program
• Whitney Pier Youth Club: Youth Program
• Educational Program Innovations Charity Society: Youth Peer and Parents PEACE Program
• Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre: Youth Forum for Violence Prevention
• Northern AIDS Connection Society: Colchester Youth Photo Voice
• Eastern Communities Youth Association: Anti-Drug Strategy 2009 & Beyond
• Springhill Teen Centre
• Split Rock Learning Centre Association: Yarmouth Youth Centre