Prepare for diverse career options in correctional institutions, open and secure custody facilities, group homes, and private agencies. From day one, you’ll get hands-on experience at the Wendigo Lake Expeditions youth open custody facility, where you'll participate in hands-on activities designed to develop your team-building, facilitation, and leadership skills. This experience will be your first introduction to youth-centered justice services with classes in the remaining semesters effectively comparing and contrasting the unique needs, challenges, and care requirements of at-risk youth, young offenders, and adults. This will be followed by tours of adult and youth correctional institutions (criminal record check required), scenario training, and a 400-hour placement. You’ll also take specialized courses related to corrections and learn from numerous guest speakers currently employed in the field who will share their tips, stories, and an outstanding breadth of knowledge. You will develop interview, security, safety, case management, communications, facilitation, and therapeutic intervention skills and become prepared to develop constructive working relationships with hard-to-serve populations, persons at risk for being in conflict with the law, offenders in the community, and inmates in our institutions. The final five weeks of the program will be spent on campus engaging in specialized training related to crisis intervention, self-defense, suicide, and mental health first aid.

Graduates may find employment in: Federal and provincial correctional institutions Open and secure custody settings for youth Residences for adult offenders (halfway houses, treatment centres) Residences for youth who are in conflict with the law (group homes) Federal and provincial government ministries – Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Corrections Services Canada, the Ministry of Children and Youth Services Private and non-profit community organizations Graduates may also work with people who are at risk of being in conflict with the law and in community-based justice services and/or victim-oriented programs.