PROGRAMS & SERVICES
Correctional Programs
Correctional Programs provide support, advocacy, reintegration planning, counselling, and community supervision services for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals. Programs work with Correctional Service Canada, correctional institutions, and community partners to support reintegration, program compliance, relapse prevention, and stabilization in the community.
Program at a Glance
Who We Serve
Programs support incarcerated women and gender diverse individuals, as well as men and individuals under the supervision of Correctional Service Canada.
Service Area
Programs operate through the Grand Valley Institute for Women, the Vanier Centre for Women, the Central North Correctional Centre, and community-based Reporting Centre services. Cost
Cost
Free of Charge
Availability
Referrals to Reporting Centre services are made directly through Correctional Service Canada Parole Officers.
What This Program Offers
- Reintegration planning and advocacy support
- Parole hearing preparation and support
- One-to-one support and group reintegration programming
- Individual programming workbooks
- Case management, counselling, support, and referrals
- Telephone curfew checks and community supervision support
- Correctional plan compliance support
- Relapse prevention, emotions management, and reintegration programming
- 24-hour crisis support
- Additional supervision and stabilization support in the community
- Community Maintenance Program group sessions focused on self-management and skill development
- Follow-up support for violence prevention, family violence prevention, substance abuse, and behavioural programs
Jail Visitation and Advocacy
Vanier Centre for Women and Grand Valley Institute for Women
Staff from the Elizabeth Fry Society Simcoe Muskoka visit women and gender diverse individuals regularly who are incarcerated at Grand Valley Institute in Kitchener-Waterloo and Vanier Centre for Women in Milton for the purpose of reintegration planning, parole hearings support and preparation, and advocacy.
Central North Correctional Centre
A trained facilitator visits Central North Correctional Centre (CNCC), twice weekly, to provide one-to-one support, group reintegration programs, and individual programming workbooks to incarcerated women and gender diverse folks.
Reporting Centre
The purpose of a Reporting Centre is to provide additional support and supervision to high risk/high need individuals under community supervision of Correctional Service Canada (CSC), who do not have a residency condition, but still require additional support in the community.
Services offered through the reporting centre include:
Case management, counselling, support and referrals
Regular observation and telephone curfew checks
Correctional plan compliance
Program sessions to support; relapse prevention, emotions management and reintegration
Alternative to residency, suspension and/or revocation
24-hour crisis support
Referrals to the Reporting Centre are made directly from Correctional Service Canada Parole Officers.
Potential Referrals:
Those under the supervision of CSC who do not meet the criteria for a residency condition but require additional support in the community.
Those under the supervision of CSC who are currently being considered for the removal of a residency condition.
Those under the supervision of CSC who need additional support during a period of re-stabilization.
Those under the supervision of CSC who have recently been suspended or are at risk of being suspended.
Those under the supervision of CSC who are on a UTA (Unescorted Temporary Absences) or pass to Barrie and require additional supervision or support during that time.
Those under the supervision of CSC who are on a Long-Term Supervision Order.
Community Maintenance Program
The Community Maintenance Program is a self-management, follow-up program for men supervised in the community by Correctional Services Canada (CSC). The goal of the program is to review and apply skills taught in the institution in any of the following programs:
a violence prevention program
a family violence prevention program
a substance abuse program
the Alternatives, Associates and Attitudes Program
The Community Maintenance Program consists of 12 group sessions. Each session is 2 hours long. The program allows men to combine the skills they have learned in correctional programs into one self-management plan.