COPA’s mandate

COPA is a Francophone provincial training and consultation body with English-language capacity. COPA's goals are to:

develop, consolidate, and disseminate quality assault prevention educational resources for children and youth based on recognized best practices;
engender individual and collective commitment to faciltiating empowerment and fostering Safe, Strong and Free environments for children and youth; and,
help consolidate and support a Franco-Ontarian resource network in the field of child and youth violence prevention.

COPA works to expand the scope of this resource network, in particular to support the establishment of high quality assault prevention education programming in French in Ontario, as well as the creation of new tools and resources for assault prevention.

This is carried out by:

ensuring the transfer of resources to new communities throughout Ontario
helping facilitate program and resource access to and support for under-serviced and isolated Francophone communities;
ensuring that new curriculum, resources and tools are created, evaluated and disseminated in a timely and appropriate fashion;
fostering the development and consolidation of potential/actual partnerships whose mandate is distinct yet linked;
supporting the expansion of COPA's capacity to provide essential project support, furthering development and sustainability of local projects in Ontario and of the organization.