Block Parent Program
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The Block Parent Program (French: Le Programme Parents-Secours) is a large, volunteer-based, child safety & crime prevention program operating across Canada. Participants in the program (Block Parents) place signs on their homes indicating that the house is a police-screened, safe home for community members in distress, particularly children. If someone is in need of help and see a block parent sign, they know there is someone home who can help them and call the appropriate emergency service if necessary.
The program now includes 300,000 participants.
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[edit] History
The program first began in London, Ontario in 1968. Independent programs began appearing across Canada until 1983 when a national committee was formed and the national Block Parents Program of Canada was created in 1986.
[edit] Future of the Block Parent Program
Some provinces and communities are discontinuing, or proposing to discontinue, the block watch program, for various reasons.
- In Prince Edward Island in November 2006, the Block Parent Program there was discontinued because it was "unable to recruit a provincial executive."
[edit] See also
- Neighborhood watch
- National Safe Place (US)
- Safety House Program (Australia)
[edit] External links
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