Linkages to SchoolPLUS

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Linkages to SchoolPLUS

• Saskatchewan Justice and Corrections and Public
  Safety

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Strategic Plans

• Justice
• Safe Communities Preserve public order and
  personal safety, reduce crime, and protect the
  rights of people
• Aboriginal Justice Build capacity and respond
  to needs.
• Civil and Family Justice Resolve conflicts
  constructively and in timely ways, and address
  the needs of vulnerable people and persons
  involved in family disputes.

• Corrections and Public Safety
• Re-offending behavior is reduced due to effective
  program interventions
• Communities have the capacity to increase public
  safety

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CPS Primary Objective

• Enhancing community safety through supervision
  and rehabilitation
• Promoting offender accountability

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Importance of Success in School

• Being successful in school is a protective factor
  
• School failure is a risk factor linked to
  offending
• SchoolPLUS will support youth transitions back to
  school, to employment, to communities

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Role of School in Preparation for Life Success

• Prepare children/youth for life success as
  citizens, parents and individuals
• Methods can include addition of key information
  in the curriculum, through mandatory and optional
  life skills courses
• appropriate conflict resolution skills /mediation
• parent education

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Curriculum (continued)

• Drug/alcohol abuse
• Race - relations diversity recognition
• How to access government programming legislation
  and processes.
• To ensure the community, family and service
  delivery structures understand basic concepts,
  work to deliver public legal information and
  education in school locations.

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Family Justice

• Developments in family justice support and
  parallel the directions taken in SchoolPlus
• Through a variety of Family Justice Services
  programming, Saskatchewan Justice seeks to
  promote resiliency in children following a
  separation or divorce. Programs include parent
  education, childrens education, and mediation.

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Family Justice

• Justice is involved in dealing with family
  violence through Interdepartmental Steering
  Committee funding and partnership with
  Saskatchewan Toward Offering Partnership
  Solutions to Violence (STOPS). STOPS hosted a
  conference in March 2003 which focused on
  gathering input from young women on approaches to
  prevent relationship violence.
• Legislative response - provincial and federal -
  Victims of Domestic Violence/Criminal Code

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Family Law Issues related to schools

• The role of the school in participating in child
  abuse investigations - Child Abuse protocol.
• The role of school authorities in providing
  information to parents under custody and access
  orders.
• The role of schools in supporting child safety in
  child abduction situations.

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Criminal Law Issues

• Provincial Child Sexual Exploitation strategy
  since 1997
• Education, prevention, enforcement, legislative
  and service response
• Interdepartmental Steering Committee
• Section 43 Criminal Code - use of force by
  persons in authority

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Criminal Law Areas of Influence

• A broad range of community-based justice
  services, including courtworkers, victims
  services and alternative measures programs.
• Crime prevention grants that focus on Aboriginal
  youth and link with national crime prevention
  strategies

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Criminal Law Areas of Influence

• Legal aid and relationships with the Bar
• RCMP and municipal police relationships
• Relationship with judiciary

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Young Offender Programs

• Alternative Measures
• Judicial Interim Release Services
• Case Management
• Risk Needs Assessment
• Risk Management
• Rehabilitation/reintegration
• Residential Support
• Custody

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Principles of Effective YO Programs

• Risk
• Need
• Responsivity

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Youth and Criminal Justice

• Emphasis on integrated and targeted approaches to
  reducing crime.
• Participation of various departments and human
  service providers in developing strategies to
  reduce crime has been encouraged.

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Youth and Criminal Justice

• Examples of interdepartmental cooperation
• The Youth Services Model, piloted in Regina and
  Prince Albert, was jointly developed by the
  departments of Justice, CPS, Health, CRE, and
  Learning.
• Aboriginal Crime Prevention initiatives, funded
  by Saskatchewan Justice, are founded on
  partnerships with 7 community organizations in
  Saskatoon, P.A., and Regina.

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Youth and Criminal Justice

• Crime reduction strategies in Regina and North
  Battleford, developing strategies in Meadow Lake,
  Saskatoon and Prince Albert
• participation of RICs and coordinators
• connected to pilots in Regina and Prince Albert
• tailored to community with typical prevention,
  early intervention, enforcement and chronic
  offender components
• school/employment and community reintegration are
  important to success

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Youth And Criminal Justice

• Participation in the Battlefords School Retrieval
  Project, now led by DRCE
• Victims Services provides assistance to victims
  of violent crime, including youth victims.

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Youth and Criminal Justice

• Learning/CPS Custody and School Transitions
  Initiatives
• fosters success transitions between custody and
  schools
• important for risk reduction and future success
• 6 initiatives
• North Battleford (Battlefords School Division,
  Northeast Catholic School Division, NBYC,
  Drumming Hill)
• Regina (Regina Public, Regina Separate,
  QuAppelle Valley, Indian Head, PDYC, House of
  Concord, Dales House, Echo Valley)
• Yorkton (Yorkton Public, Yorkdale, Souris
  Moose-Mountain, Orcadia Youth Residence and
  Kenosee Youth Camp)

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Youth and Criminal Justice

• Learning/CPS Custody and School Transitions
  Initiatives
• 6 initiatives (continued)
• Saskatoon (Saskatoon Public Catholic School
  Division, Kilburn Hall, Yarrow Youth Farm, Red
  Willow Centre)
• Prince Albert (Prince Albert Catholic,
  Saskatchewan Rivers School Division, PAYR, Nisbet
  Youth Centre)
• Carlyle (Souris Moose-Mountain, Kenosee Youth
  Camp)

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Youth and Criminal Justice

• North Battleford
• Expansion of Elder Services in the School
  Retrieval Programs
• More professional development for teacher
  therapists
• Curriculum improvement at NBYC, literacy tutors,
  computer software, and library resources
• Expand educational and life skills training for
  youth destined for employment (drivers education,
  CPR/first aid, ready to work)
• Half time liaison teacher therapist to work with
  the Battleford School Division and NBYC

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Youth and Criminal Justice

• Regina
• Computer assisted learning through use of
  web-based PLATO sites within facilities
• Community-based mentoring program to assist with
  transition and ongoing support
• Recreational/cultural component to engage youth
  in positive and culturally meaningful choices
• Yorkton
• Liaison worker to facilitate transition
• Accreditation of Orcadia School

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Youth and Criminal Justice

• Saskatoon
• Creation of a Transition Room at Opening Door
  Program, Joe Duquette H.S. or Murray Bishop to
  support youth experiencing challenges with
  learning and behaviour as they transition from
  custody
• Teacher and teacher assistant to assist with
  transition and support these youth
• School and classroom readiness skills will be
  targeted focusing on appropriate school behaviour
• Access to educational assessment (in some cases)
  in order to provide appropriate programming

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Youth and Criminal Justice

• Saskatoon (continued)
• Career, personal and lifestyle counselling, some
  youth will work in the community in work
  education planning
• Prince Albert
• Liaison workers/mentors to work with youth and
  families to assist and support the youth in
  transition to community schools
• These workers liaise with custody facilities,
  community youth workers and schools to assist
  with discharge planning

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Youth and Criminal Justice

• Kenosee
• Computer assisted learning for youth in custody
• Computers provided by Souris Moose-Mountain

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What are we doing now?

• Justice and CPS actively participate in
• Council on Children and Youth
• Human Services Integration Forum
• Interdepartmental Management Committee
• Building Educational Capacity Committee
• Interdepartmental Working Committee
• Interdepartmental Communications Committee

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What are we doing now?

• CPS is prepared to participate in
• Regional Support Committees (Regional Directors,
  Facility Directors)
• Co-management Committees (Regional Directors,
  Facility Directors, supervisors)
• Justice has sector specific resources, no similar
  regional structure and must rely on sectors
  courts, Crown, police

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Sector Awareness and Understanding

• Exploring linkages with SchoolPLUS
• Presentation to Directors
• Symposium on educational needs of custody youth
• Written material available in all offices
• Mail out to community based organizations (CBOs)
• Invitation to CBOs to develop innovative
  initiatives to enhance partnerships and provide
  supportive programs (contribution to T/C
  Engagement Fund)