COPA NATIONAL’s mission is to prevent and interrupt violence, bullying, and child abuse on individual, organizational, and systemic levels by offering simple and effective tools and resources that promote positive social change. In our experience, it is tools, not rules, that create sustainable change.

We have been developing and perfecting these tools and resources for 25 years in schools, communities, and organizations all over Ontario, and in our role as provincial coordinator of settlement workers in Francophone school communities in Ontario. We have offered programming to over 170,000 children so far. 

Our approach is unique in that it focuses on prevention and on building capacity in people, families, organizations, and communities in order to create lasting change.

DONATIONS IN LISA’S MEMORY

Everyone has the right to be safe, strong and free. Everyone belongs.

A lifelong social justice activist and a fierce feminist, Lisa Weintraub’s career and her life were dedicated to the prevention of violence against women and children and all those in the world who are vulnerable and at risk. She founded and managed COPA with a close colleague who shares the same passion for children’s and all human rights In the unique period of time at the end of her life, Lisa created Project Freedom, a special project within COPA to help launch the process of releasing this organization from its dependence on government funding. Donations to Project Freedom will be used creatively and effectively as a seed fund to allow COPA NATIONAL to imagine and activate initiatives that are not imposed on them by current political priorities.