SNAP® is an internationally-recognized program that has received numerous national and international awards and effectiveness designations.

Awards and Acknowledgements

• Youth Action Plan – SNAP is selected as a Middle Years strategy by the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services as part of its enhanced Youth Action to help young people make better choices (2015)
• YWCA Toronto Woman of Distinction – Presented to Kathy Levene, developer of the SNAP Girls program, for “creating a new standard of how we understand and treat young girls with mental health issues.” (2014)
• Inaugural Prime Minister’s Volunteer Award for Social Innovator in Ontario – Presented by the Prime Minister of Canada for “CDI’s SNAP model [being] an innovative, self-sustaining social enterprise … It helps rewrite the scripts of thousands of life stories, giving them happier endings.” (2012)
• Elizabeth Manson Award for Community Service in Children’s Mental Health – Presented by the Department of Psychiatry at The Hospital for Sick Children to Dr. Leena Augimeri for her “significant contribution to the improvement of children’s mental health in the community.” (2012)
• Inaugural Outstanding Achievement Research and Evaluation Award from the Child Welfare League of Canada – In honour of “the research activities of the Centre [that] have had a positive impact on the welfare of children in Canada and elsewhere.” (2004)

Designations

• Effective Crime Solution Program by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs’ CrimeSolutions.gov, which “uses rigorous research to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice and crime victim services.” (2012)
• Canadian Violence Prevention Best Practice by the Public Health Agency of Canada, which “provides program planners and public health practitioners with easy and immediate access to successful public health programs, interventions and policies that have been evaluated and have the potential to be adapted and used.” The Best Practice designation was awarded to both SNAP Boys and SNAP Girls. (2011)
• Model Program by Public Safety Canada’s National Crime Prevention Centre, as “a prevention program that meets the highest scientific standard for effectiveness (scientifically proven prevention and intervention programs), as evidenced in published evaluations; has a significant, sustained preventive or deterrent effect or reduction of problem behaviour, the reduction of risk factors related to problem behaviour; or the enhancement of protective factors related to problem behaviour and has been replicated in different communities or settings.” (2008)
• Exemplary Program by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. (2007)
• Level 1 – Highest Effectiveness Designation by Youth.gov (2006; originally, U.S. White House’s Helping America’s Youth initiative, then FindYouthInfo.gov)
• Effective Program by the U.S. National Gang Center (2006)

Reports

Public Safety Canada

• Building the Evidence - Evaluation Summary
• Research Matters
• Crime Prevention in Action
• Families, Youth and Delinquency: The State of Knowledge, and Family-Based Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Programs
• Implementation Fact Sheets on Promising and Model Crime Prevention Programs – 2012

Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

• Community Safety and Well-Being in Ontario

For more information about SNAP®, please visit www.stopnowandplan.com.