Minority communities participate in crime prevention summit in Montreal
Global News
Around 20 different organizations from Montreal's English-speaking minority communities participated in a crime prevention summit on Saturday.
The Centre for Research Action on Race Relations (CRARR) continued its two-day crime prevention summit on Saturday afternoon.
More than 20 minority group organizations from Montreal’s English-speaking community participated.
The summit acted as a roundtable discussion and aimed to attract more resources to meet the English-speaking minority community’s crime-prevention needs.
“How do we develop programs and services to tackle crime, to prevent crime, and how do we get access to resources,” said CRARR Executive Director Fo Niemi.
“How do we work together with the city and the police and the schools, eventually, to address the needs of the youth,” he added.
Saturday’s session also focused on economic opportunities.
“In the end, it’s about combatting poverty,” said Niemi. “It’s about giving young people a chance to believe that they can get a good job if they don’t stray away.”
According to many experts, financial literacy is key to combatting poverty.