- Description
- Provides various services including the following:
- Individual counselling and referrals to other resources
- Library Services for inmates
- Community Education through displays, discussions
- Guest speakers to speak on various topics
- Visits people at the local jail in response to requests
- Advocates with legal aid and involvement with the family
- Meets with inmates, at their request, to develop an individual plan of action that can be followed upon release
- Develops a plan based on individual need and may involve networking and collaborating with service providers to assure assistance to clients
- Provides follow-up and support once released
- Provides an option to jail sentences and can be a condition of a probation order for adult and youth offenders
- Works a specific number of hours of community service work
- Focuses on assistance for seniors, non-profit organizations, and physically challenged persons
- Facilitates reconciliation between victim and offender where both parties are willing to undergo a group conference to discuss the offence, the effects of the offence on the victim and appropriate consequences for the offender
- Determines the most appropriate consequences with the alleged young offender, parent(s)/caregiver(s), John Howard Society and the police
- Teaches people to use appropriate thoughts and actions to express anger
- Teaches skills to help understand themselves and how to identify and express their anger appropriately
- Provides community based post charge sanctions for youth, outside of formal judicial proceedings, where a young person cannot be adequately dealt with by police cautions, warnings or referrals to community support programs
- Provides music lessons to youth who are at risk of conflict with the law or who do not have the opportunity to play a musical instrument and who want to learn music and join a band
- Eligibility
- Reconciliation Between Victims and Offenders
- Youth ages 12-17
- Youth ages 12-17
- Youth ages 10-17
- Application Process
- Call for more information
- Documents Required
- No documents required
- Phone
- 705-673-9576
- Office
- 705-673-9576
- Fax
- 705-673-1543
- Web Site
- www.johnhoward.on.ca/sudbury
- [email protected]
- Languages
- English, French, American Sign Language (ASL), English, French
- Fees
- Program ; None - Youth Programs
- Topic(s)
- Social Media
- Agency Information
- View Agency Profile
- Copyright
- 211 Ontario North
- Last Verified On
- March 20, 2025
- Address
- 204 Pine St
Greater Sudbury, ON, P3C 1X5
Located at Pine St and Hartman Ave
Open in Google Maps - Accessibility
- Not Accessible
- Hours of Operation
- Tue-Fri 9 am-4:30 pmMon0900 to 1630Tue0900 to 1630Wed0900 to 1630Thu0900 to 1630Fri0900 to 1630
- Service Area(s)
- Greater Sudbury
