The Canadian Centre for Safer Communities is a leading national non-profit in Canada that brings communities together to share and build knowledge on effective strategies to prevent criminalization, victimization, violence, and increase community safety and feelings of safety. We specialize in community engagement and local multisector strategies that tackle root causes and address community safety challenges by enhancing people’s well-being.
Members of CCFSC represent communities and organizations across the country. By becoming members, community representatives have access to services and benefits, including:
The Canadian Centre for Safer Communities was founded in Ottawa. We acknowledge the Anishinaabe as the traditional custodians of these lands and of the Ottawa River and we thank them for their care. Ottawa is believed to be derived from adawe, which means “to trade” in Anishinaabemowin.
As a national organization, CCFSC’s staff and board live, work, and play across the country colonially known as Canada. There are nearly 700 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities across Northern Turtle Island, from coast to coast to coast, and they have been tending these lands and waters since time immemorial.
