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 child/youth assault prevention resources, based on child and youth advocacy and, to
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:

ensuring the transfer of resources to new communities throughout Ontario
helping facilitate program and resource access to and support for under-serviced and highly 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 and of the organization