Stanford Miaro centre, with Shad Qadri, left, President of Crime Prevention Ottawa and Barbara McKinnon, CPO Board member
Among the winners of the Crime Prevention Ottawa 2015 Community Safety awards was 18-year old Stanford Miaro. According to one of his teachers at Longfields Davidson Heights Secondary School, Stanford embodies everything our community looks for in a man: captain of the basketball team and active in many social circles. Together with his classmates, Stanford helped create ManUp! after hearing Glen Canning speak about his daughter, Rehtaeh Parsons, who took her life after being sexually assaulted and tormented online. Soon after, Stanford stepped in when a friend was harassing his girlfriend in the school cafeteria. To his fellow students, he became a hero for standing up and speaking out against violence. Stanford and his ManUp! friends hosted an assembly for 1,000 Barrhaven boys, targeted key issues like sexting, created public service announcements and launched a poster campaign. He’s been key to ManUp!’s success. Now a first year criminology student at Carleton University, Stanford continues to demonstrate how the actions of one person can help create a safer community.
Source: Crime Prevention Ottawa