Practitioners’ Experience in Preventing Violence at the Core of CPN-PREV’s Recent vPiP Training in Atlantic Canada
This March, CPN-PREV’s Community of Practice—vPiP— delivered two capacity development training sessions on the Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE) in Atlantic Canada, in Prince Edward Island (March 9–10) and Halifax, Nova Scotia (March 12–13). Over 80 frontline practitioners across mental health, social work, youth services, education, law enforcement, policy, and community development convened.
The program was co-designed by 23 practitioners, representing professional organizations across the PVE field. This co-designed module intentionally draws on the rich, accumulated experience of practitioners working in the tertiary space, recognizing their grounded expertise as essential to shaping relevant and effective approaches. By coming together as a community, it embodies a genuine partnership that bridges knowledge and practice, strengthening collective capacity to prevent and respond to violent extremism.
This is only possible with partners who share that vision:
Burlington Public Library
Canadian Association of Journalists
Canadian Association of Social Workers
Canadian Centre for Safer Communities
Canadian Psychological Association
Halifax Regional Municipality
Moonshot
Nova Scotia College of Social Workers
Organization for the Prevention of Violence - Evolve Program
Project Reset John Howard Society of Ottawa
Public Safety's Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence
Shift BC
Yorktown Family Services - ETA Ontario
And a facilitation team that embodies cross-sectoral collaboration:
Ciara Middlebrook
Elliot Simpson
Gabriela Zarama
Ghayda Hassan
Hana Hadzifejzovic
Saed Abu-Haltam
Zohra Tasci
Zeina Ismail-Allouche
What comes next matters as much as what happened in those rooms. Follow-up sessions are in development. A community of practice rooted in Atlantic Canada is taking shape. Because sustainable impact requires sustained investment in people, in relationships, and in structures that allow knowledge to keep moving.
We invite practitioners, organizations, funders, and decision-makers to be part of what comes next.