COPA’s mandate

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

  1. develop, consolidate, and disseminate child/youth assault prevention resources, based on child and youth advocacy and, to
  2. 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 (for information about COPA's work in the English sector, go to Programs in English), as well as the creation of new tools and resources for assault prevention. This is carried out by: