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June 21, 2025 - Aspire is a new Mentoring Program in partnership with Employment Planning and Counselling Peterborough (EPC) and the Trent Valley Literacy Association (TVLA). Utilizing volunteer mentors Aspire aims to work with young adults (16 – 25 yrs.) with a focus on supporting them in the workforce, training or educational attainment. Volunteers may provide support and mentoring individually or facilitate a small group session about their own career and a “day in the life.” John Howard Society of Peterborough: Main Office
70 Hunter Street
Peterborough, ON
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June 21, 2025 - The Non-Residential Attendance Centre (NRAC) is a non-custodial sentencing option as identified in the Youth Criminal Justice Act, and part of a continued plan from the Youth Justice Division of the Ministry of Children and Youth Services to decrease reliance on custody, and further intensive community-based interventions. The goal of this program is to reduce offending behaviour by targeting specific risks demonstrated by youth through intensive counselling and programming. This program is intended for moderate- to high-risk youth who require intervention in multiple criminogenic need areas.
Youth Justice Probation Officers are the sole referral source to NRAC. They refer youth…Read More

June 21, 2025 - This project is in partnership with the Ottawa Catholic School Board, and is funded in part from our community partners: Community Foundation of Ottawa and Catholic Education Foundation of Ottawa. This program began as a two-year pilot project, funded through Crime Prevention Ottawa. Due to the program’s continued success, Choices has expanded into our fifth year of implementation and now services two inner city Ottawa schools.
Recognizing the importance of education in supporting a young person away from potential involvement in the justice system, this program takes place on school property. Programming for both males and females at the junior…Read More

June 21, 2025 - This programming is provided in partnership with the Ottawa Community Youth Diversion Program, operated through the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa. Gender-specific groups and individual counselling focusing on peer influences and healthy relationships, and the role of thoughts and thinking in risky and criminal behaviour, support youth ages 12 to 17 in being accountable for actions that have brought them to the attention of police and the courts. John Howard Society of Ottawa: Main Office
550 Old St. Patrick Street
Ottawa, ON
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June 21, 2025 - The Saint John Bosco Achievement Centre (JBAC) is a program provided in partnership with the Ottawa Catholic School Board and youturn youth support services. Our shared vision is to provide a unique and specialized educational program to justice-involved youth that matches their needs and complexities.
The goal of this program is to reduce youths’ risk of ongoing and future involvement in the justice system by supporting their educational achievement and, subsequently, their vocational interests and success; and increasing their participation in positive and structured activities. These are two areas in which these youth have typically experienced significant struggles.
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June 21, 2025 - The Gang Prevention/Intervention Program (GPIP) is a partnership between the John Howard Society (JHS) of Ottawa and youturn Youth Support Services to address both the male and female pathways to involvement in gang-related crime through the provision of evidenced-based and gender responsive supports and services. By combining local data with research-based criminogenic risk factors linked to youth gang involvement, GPIP works to target youth (aged 12-20) in the City of Ottawa, Russell County and the City of Rockland. John Howard Society of Ottawa: Main Office
550 Old St. Patrick Street
Ottawa, ON
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June 21, 2025 - Prevention services are available to youth and families through the John Howard Society. This program includes the provision of evidence based, gender-specific group and individual counselling delivered by trained facilitators. Support for youth involved in prevention services could include a focus on healthy relationships, structured free time, the role of thoughts and thinking in risky behaviour, as well as increasing the connection to education and employment. John Howard Society of Ottawa: Main Office
550 Old St. Patrick Street
Ottawa, ON
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June 21, 2025 - Our partner agency, youturn, provides Collaborative Problem Solving Parent Group Therapy, an 8 week program supporting parents in improving the parent/child relationship and decreasing challenging behaviour. Through the provision of targeted parental support, sustainable changes within the family lead to a reduction of future criminal involvement of the children in the family home. John Howard Society of Ottawa: Main Office
550 Old St. Patrick Street
Ottawa, ON
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