The gang prevention fund, from what I understand, is allocated to a group for three to five years. Regardless of it achieving wonderful results, the funding after that time is switched to another group. To me that's a barrier to effective programs, which could be changed if a program could demonstrate its success. In order to help youth transition out of gangs and to stop them from getting into gangs, you need to have strong relationships, and those take time. So having that changed would be helpful to groups that have effective programming in place. I know the fact that there is a limited amount of money is a barrier to our club applying for that funding in the first place, because they're concerned about building expectations.
On March 25th, 2013. See this statement in context.