Community and Justice Services

NEW for 2023 - An immersive experience that sets Cambrian College Community and Justice Services program out from other colleges. We are the ONLY CJS Program offering an immersive off-campus two-night three-day Indigenous experience, making our program a destination for an inclusive experiential curriculum.

In your first semester, you will enter into a two night-three-day immersive experience in a remote location with rustic accommodations, that will include programming from your faculty to introduce critical vocational skills, and education from Cambrian’s Wabnode Center on Indigenous traditional land-based teachings, all to foster belonging, independence, cultural awareness of Indigenous ways of healing that promote rehabilitation, and perspective-taking for persons in conflict with the law and Indigenous persons overrepresented in our criminal justice system.

Are you ready to be a change maker in our community and justice services? Our program unlocks your ability to work with diverse, marginalized groups including hard-to-serve populations, people at risk for being in conflict with the law, offenders in the community, and those incarcerated in our institutions. Our program prepares you to examine social and criminal justice through the lens of corrections, intervention and rehabilitation.​

Community and justice services professionals often work with clients who find themselves at a crossroads. This program opens the doors for diverse and exciting career options in correctional institutions, open and secure custody facilities, group homes, community corrections, advocacy, non-government agencies and even law enforcement and border security.  ​

Our faculty are skilled, committed, and have direct work experience within community and institutional correctional services. Our faculty take you beyond the textbook into applied learning in our Justice Simulation Lab – complete with cell blocks.  We provide the controlled learning environment for you to mediate crisis, de-escalate conflict, and roll with resistance.  You gain confidence through observation and practiced performance.  When the classroom experience is not enough, we network with our community partners to bring you to the field to experience it firsthand. ​

From your very first day of class, we will introduce you to the world of corrections.  Classes begin with a balanced examination of community and institutional correction to give you a strong foundation for the remaining semesters to effectively compare the unique needs, challenges, and care requirements of at-risk youth, young offenders, and adults in conflict with the law. You will focus on emerging social issues and explore ways to work with both offenders and victims in a variety of methods of appropriate interventions.

The program experience includes tours of adult and youth correctional institutions (Criminal Record Check Required), simulations, immersive learning and a 350-hour placement. Where possible, the location of placement will correspond to your preferred choice of vocation. Field placement is restricted to those who have successfully completed or are completing all required courses.​

In addition to your program courses, you will also receive specialized seminars, workshops and certifications in behaviour management, de-escalation techniques, assisting those at risk of suicide and interprofessional collaborative practices.​

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