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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.

    Top tasks

    • Go to the Building Safer Communities Program
    • Download the Crime Prevention Strategy
  • Grants  

    Grants

    • 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.

    • Community Safety Infrastructure Grants

      Community Safety Infrastructure Grants

      Funding of up to $500,000 to improve community safety, security and confidence in public places.

    • Youth Crime Prevention Grants

      Youth Crime Prevention Grants

      Funding for community-led initiatives that address offending behaviour and recidivism by young people.

    Top tasks

    • Manage my grants
    • Build partnerships
    • Design projects for young people
    • Get data and statistics
    • Find projects we've funded
    • Read about our past grants
  • 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

    • Theft and burglary

      Theft and burglary

      Protect your home, your car and your stuff.

    • 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.

    Top tasks

    • View all resources
  • In your community  

    In your community

    • Featured projects

      Featured projects

      Get ideas about activities that you could implement in your local area by reading about our featured projects.

    • Find projects we've funded

      Find projects we've funded

      Search for all the crime prevention projects across Victoria funded under the Community Crime Prevention Program.

    Top tasks

    • Go to the crime prevention grants
    • Explore current crime statistics (External link)
    • Call Crime Stoppers (External link)
    • Contact your local police station (External link)
    • Access data about your local government area (External link)
    • Find projects we've funded
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  3. Manage my grants

Manage my grants

Link to SmartyGrants and key resources to help you manage your project.

Access the SmaryGrants portal to manage your grant applications.

Go to SmartyGrants (External link)

Resources

The following resources are available to assist you to manage your project.

  • Evaluation Toolkit
  • Information on writing a case study
  • Photograph and video consent form
  • Supplier Details Form - EFT Payments
  • Information about Child Safe Standards 
  • Acknowledgement and Publicity Guidelines

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  • Go to grants pages
  • Search crime prevention resources
  • Evaluate my crime prevention project
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  • About us
  • News and events

Other useful sites

Department of Justice and Community Safety (External link)
Crime Statistics Agency (External link)
Victoria Police (External link)
Australian Institute of Criminology (External link)
Grants Victoria (External link)

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander flagsThe department acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Custodians of the land and acknowledges and pays respect to their Elders, past and present.

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