Intervene with the Correctional Service of Canada and the community in order to offer the targeted clientele services adapted to their needs for the best possible quality of life.
Foster the potential for individual autonomy by allowing them to take up new challenges likely to lead to successful reintegration into the community.
Encourage the empowerment and commitment of people to respect the values and norms of the society in which they live.
Create and maintain collaborations with other stakeholders in community networks (halfway houses, organizations for the elderly, volunteers, etc.) and correctional (detention facilities, sector offices, CCCs, etc.) in order to support reintegration procedures social clientele.
The resource persons of the Oxygen Service meet inmates and released prisoners grappling with one or another of these difficulties and intervene with them and on their behalf with the Canadian community and correctional networks.
Having an excellent knowledge of these networks, the resource persons suggest alternatives to prolonged imprisonment or disorganization, in particular for those who already live in the community.
Services
Service Oxygène encourages elderly prisoners and ex-prisoners (50 years and over) to actively participate in their reintegration into the community by directing them to the services and programs available in the community.
The Oxygen Service maintains relationships of mutual aid and collaboration with case management officers (institutions and community) while staying informed of the policies and directives of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) and the National Parole Board. of Canada (NPB).
The Oxygen Service helps each individual to prepare for the next stage of his life: cascading, liberation, autonomy in community, relocation to another resource, etc.
Support for residential placement is at the heart of the Oxygen Service's concerns. Referrals for placements are made in the CRC / CCC or in all other residences (residences for the elderly, foster homes, etc.) that can accommodate the target clientele.
Support for maintaining a community is facilitated by the help given to finding accommodation and finding other services that allow people to meet their basic needs.
Referral to specialized resources for the elderly is supported. We are thinking, among other things, of situations requiring that an elderly person who has been in court be referred to a long-term care center (CHSLD).
The sensitization of the public and of the correctional network to the problems of gerontological type which are confronted by the elderly delinquents and the whole society.
Clientele
Elderly offenders (50 years and over) serving life or long sentences or incarcerated at an advanced age.
Capacity
2 intervention staff are assigned to this task
Admission condition
- Desire to receive help from workers
- Be able to speak French or English
Exclusion criteria
The Oxygen Service serves sector offices and penitentiaries in the greater Montreal area
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