Provides support to individuals who are involved in the criminal justice system and who suffer from mental health and substance use problems
Offers the following programs:Mental Health Court Outreach

• Supports individuals in the court system
• Collaborates with legal counsel and family members
• Assists with bail release planning
• Helps secure beds for forensic assessments

Release from Custody

• Provides case management to individuals who are incarcerated
• Assists with release from custody and up to 3 months after release
• Helps with accessing community resources, such as housing, financial, and medical care

Mental Health Diversion

• Supports individuals who have been charged with a minor offence where mental health has been determined to be a factor in the offence

Provides the following support services:Youth Court Support

• Attends court with the youth every Thu morning
• Helps youth navigate the court system

Youth Mental Health Court Diversion

• Works with youth to help them take responsibility and ownership of their offence
• A youth's charges may be withdrawn following successful completion of the program

Bail Release Planning

• Provides a Youth Mental Health Court Worker in bail court as needed
• Services may include advocacy, interviewing family members, and referring youth to community services

• Provides a non-residential attendance centre for youth who have been in conflict with the law
• Offers support, services and programs that address the identified risk and needs of the young person

Services are usually offered on a group basis but can be individualized upon request and may include but are not limited to:

• Anger awareness and management skills
• Cognitive skills
• Employment, job search skills and literacy/tutoring
• Healthy self-esteem development
• Gender-specific programming for both males/females
• Life skills and problem-solving
• Recreation
• Substance abuse
• Violence and victim awareness

Addresses youth crime by providing the following services:

• An alternative to custody
• Intensive clinical support and community supervision
• Focus on treatment

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

Institutional Visitation

• Visits people at the local jail in response to requests
• Advocates with legal aid and involvement with the family

Pre-Release Planning

• 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

Community Service Order Program

• 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

Reconciliation Between Victims and Offenders

• 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

Youth Referral Project

• Determines the most appropriate consequences with the alleged young offender, parent(s)/caregiver(s), John Howard Society and the police

Anger Management Program

• 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

Extrajudicial Sanctions/Enhanced Extrajudicial Sanctions

• 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

Summer Maintenance Crew

• Coordinates a free yard work service for seniors and those with physical challenges

Sudbury Youth Rocks Program

• 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

Addresses youth crime by providing the following services:

• An alternative to custody
• Intensive clinical support and community supervision
• Focus on treatment

Primarily delivers the Miwdoodaa Minomaadiziwin Diversion Program

• Acts as a pre/post-charge diversion program that offers culturally appropriate services to help Indigenous people deal with the criminal justice system
• Offers culturally appropriate alternatives upon sentencing before a conviction is entered
• Provides an opportunity for the community member to enter into a mutually agreed Healing and Wellness Plan which will be taken into consideration upon sentencing
• Elders, Band officials, victims and community service providers may assist the community member during the Council process
• Facilitates mediation between the victim and offender to allow each party to be seen, heard and believed in order to repair the harm done to the community
• Offers assistance with victim services, legal aid and advice clinic, probation, and bail supervision

Some typical Healing and Wellness Plans may include, but are not limited to:

• Attending cultural events, such as Ceremony and Justice Circle
• Some form of restitution
• Community service hours
• Counselling and/or treatment

Community Justice Committee

• Acts as an advisory committee to the Justice Coordinator
• Participates in Justice Circles and development of Healing Plan
• Supports the offender and the victim