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Legal status
  
Active

Headquarters
  
Barrie, Canada

Official language
  
English, French

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Purpose
  
Advocate and public voice, educator and network

Region served
  
London, Ontario, Canada

Website
  
Block Parent Program of Canada

Type of business
  
Child safety organization based in Canada

Similar
  
National Crime Preventio, John Howard Society, Canadian Red Cross

The Block Parent Program (French: Le Programme Parents-Secours) is a large, volunteer-based, child safety and 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 sees a block parent sign, they know there is someone home who can help them and call the appropriate emergency service if necessary.

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History

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The program 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. The first school to have Block Parent program was Arthur Stringer on Shaftesbury Avenue in Westminster Park.

Local and regional decline

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Some provinces and communities are discontinuing or proposing to discontinue the Block Parent program, for various reasons. Occasionally, regional programs have been revived after shutting down.

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  • In March 2005 the British Columbia Block Parent Society asked volunteers to remove the signs from homes.
  • In Prince Edward Island in November 2006, the Block Parent Program was discontinued because it was "unable to recruit a provincial executive".
  • The program was discontinued in 2008 in the City of Ottawa.
  • In the cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, the number of participating homes when the program began in the area was over 3,000. Participation suffered an enormous decline until recently by more than 50%. There were less than 1,500 homes involved in the program, and many positions such as event coordinator and treasurer were not filled. This decrease has been attributed to the police checks that are now required for program applicants and those already participating. These factors nearly caused the program in the region to shut down in February 2009 until a group of volunteers revived it.

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    References

    Block Parent Program Wikipedia
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