Australian Capital Territory
Confiscation of Criminal Assets (Distribution of Surplus Funds) Allocation 2012

By Notifiable Instrument N12012-335, $190,000.00 is the amount of distributable funds available for payment from the Confiscated Assets Trust Fund during the 2011/2012 financial year.

I approve the Confiscated Assets Trust Fund to be used for activities in the following manner associated with the enforcement of territory laws; criminal justice activities; crime prevention; assistance to victims of crime; the prevention of drug abuse; and the rehabilitation of drug users in the ACT.  

Agency/Body	Purpose	Amount	
Australia White Ribbon Foundation 	To support White Ribbon Day (WRD) ACT to progress improved coordination with bodies that support men using violence or at risk of using violence against women and to support the 2012/13 WRD in the ACT.	$20,000.00	
Canberra Rape Crisis Centre	Print posters and coasters to raise public awareness of sexual assault in the ACT.	$5,000.00	
Domestic Violence Prevention Council 	To ensure the Council can effectively contribute to the prevention of violence in the ACT. 	$10,000.00	
Improving Safety and Security Grants Program, Directorate of Justice and Community Safety	Provide additional funds to allocate more grants through the Improving Safety and Security Grants Program which assists community groups and organisations to purchase infrastructure and equipment to improve the safety and security of their facilities. 	$50,000.00	
Women’s Centre for Health Matters	To support the Reclaim the Night and the Summer of Respect campaign which raises public awareness of violence against women. 	$10,000.00	
Young Indigenous Offender Counselling Support Program, Office for Children, Youth and Family Support, Community Safety Directorate	To develop a pilot program with Relationships Australia to deliver individual and family counselling by Aboriginal counsellors for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people who are serious repeat offenders. 	$45,000.00	
Aboriginal Justice Centre	To allow the Aboriginal Justice Centre to run the Youth Crime Prevention Engagement Project for a second time to include more young people at risk.  	$10,000.00	
Shine for Kids	To allow Shine for Kids to run a homework program within the Alexander Maconochie Centre in conjunction with their Prison Invisits Program. 	$20,000.00	
Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Association ACT	To expand and strengthen Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (ATOD) research and enhance ATOD policy and service delivery in the ACT and region, through establishing a structured collaboration, such as a Centre for Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research, Policy and Practice in the ACT.	$10,000.00	

Simon Corbell
Attorney-General
1.8.2012

Australian Capital Territory
Confiscation of Criminal Assets (Distribution of Surplus Funds) Allocation 2012

Background

By Notifiable Instrument N12012-335, $190,000.00 is the amount of distributable funds available for payment from the Confiscated Assets Trust Fund during the 2011/2012 financial year.

The Confiscated Assets Trust Fund is to be used for activities in the following manner associated with the enforcement of territory laws; criminal justice activities; crime prevention; assistance to victims of crime; the prevention of drug abuse; and the rehabilitation of drug users in the ACT.  

Agency/Body	Purpose	Amount	
Canberra Rape Crisis Centre	Print the 2012 edition of the resource ‘All about Rape’ to assist victims of sexual assault in the ACT.	$10,000.00	

Simon Corbell
Attorney-General
6.9.2012