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Acting Together CURA Project

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We love to hear feedback from our community. Please call us with any questions, comments or to share your interest in participating in our research. You may leave a message in English, Punjabi or Hindi and someone will return your call.

For General Information

Deborah Nowak, Research Administrator
(604) 599-2961
Deborah.Nowak@kwantlen.ca

For Other Inquiries

Dr. Gira Bhatt, Principal Investigator and Project Director
(604) 599-3268
Gira.Bhatt@kwantlen.ca

Steve Dooley, Co-Investigator, Lead: Community Research
(604) 599-2457
Steve.Dooley@kwantlen.ca

Dr. Roger Tweed, Co-Investigator, Lead: Academic Research
(604) 599-3382
Roger.Tweed@kwantlen.ca

What is AT-CURA?

Acting Together (AT) is a federally funded project aiming to identify factors that protect youth from gang involvement and to support community resilience-promoting initiatives. The project, led by Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, B.C., Canada has brought together 12 community partner organizations and nine academic researchers from four post-secondary institutions.

We want your help!

If you are a parent, teacher, teenager, high school or university student, service provider, policy maker, law enforcement agent or community activist, and are concerned with the issues of gang involvement and youth violence, you are invited to participate in the project’s various activities, including research. Please contact us for more information.

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“Given that crime reduction is one of the four key areas of focus for the City of Surrey, we view our partnership with the Acting Together Community-University Research Alliance as a key component in assisting us as we move forward in our efforts to develop partnerships, seek solutions to root causes of crime, and to ultimately bring together all stakeholders in our shared goal of ensuring a safe, healthy and vibrant community.”

Dianne Watts
Mayor of City of Surrey

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