SNAP® - Stop-Now-And-Plan

On October 15th, 2009 the National Crime Prevention Centre announced financial support for the Canadian Safe School Network (CSSN) to deliver the award winning SNAP® (Stop Now and Plan) program to selected schools in five school boards across the Greater Toronto Area over the next 3.5 years.

SNAP is an evidence-based model developed more than 30 years ago by the Child Development Institute (CDI) in Toronto, Canada (formerly called Earlscourt Child and Family Centre). It first started as a simple strategy used to get children in a day treatment program exhibiting behavioural problems to “stop and think” before they reacted. In the early 1980’s, the strategy evolved into a school based program -- Earlscourt Social Skills Program. In 1985, an innovative model designed specifically for young children in conflict with the law (SNAP® Under 12 Outreach Project) was built around the SNAP strategy. Today, this manualized model is noted in the literature “as the most fully developed intervention to date for child delinquents.”

Based on the promising SNAP research and continued development of the model by its originators at CDI, a SNAP for Schools model has been developed. CSSN will work collaboratively with school staff to teach children the award-winning SNAP strategies promoting pro-social behaviour, problem solving skills and self-control. SNAP has proven to be a promising prevention and intervention model for young children with conduct problems. The goal of SNAP is to keep these high-risk children in school and out of trouble.

CSSN hired staff who have been fully trained by CDI to deliver the SNAP program in selected elementary school classrooms beginning in late January 2010. 

This project is partially funded through the Government of Canada’s National Crime Prevention Strategy.

Ce projet est financé en partie par la Stratégie nationale pour la prévention du crime du gouvernement du Canada.