Community programs

If you are serving a sentence in the community, you may be enrolled in one or more of BC Corrections’ cognitive behavioural programs that are proven to reduce criminal behaviour.

Programs include:

• Relationship Violence Prevention Program - Helps individuals identify abusive behaviour, understand its harmful impact and learn how to avoid it in relationships
• Thinking Leads 2 Change - Helps medium- and high-risk women explore the roots of their thoughts, beliefs and emotions that led to their anti-social or criminal behaviour
• Living Without Violence - Helps individuals recognize the source of their anger, improve their communication skills and learn respectful, non-violent problem-solving
• Substance Abuse Management - Uses practical strategies to reduce the negative consequences of substance abuse, ranging from safer use, to managed use, to abstinence
• Treatment and Maintenance Programs for Sexually Motivated Offences - To treat sex offenders and help them retain what they have learned in treatment

Probation officers can also help you find other resources in the community based on your needs. They include mental health and addiction services, income assistance, housing, employment skills training or education upgrading.

More information

For more information, please visit:

• Community Corrections in B.C. (Key Parts of the Criminal Justice System)