Program directory · Correctional Service Canada

Community Engagement

Department

Correctional Service Canada

Program code

BUK02 (CSC)

Core responsibility

Correctional Interventions

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Community Engagement Program contributes to Correctional Interventions through citizen engagement by developing and maintaining relationships with volunteers, partners, stakeholders, Canadians and communities. CSC provides voluntary client-centered services focused on restorative justice and victim services that further contribute to the federal correctional process in areas including meeting victims’ needs and integrating their concerns, meaningful offender accountability and their reintegration.

Key activities include raising public awareness to improve confidence in federal corrections; developing and maintaining partnerships; creating collaborative working relationships with diverse segments of the community, non-governmental agencies, and other government departments; providing leadership to the volunteer program, National Victim Services Program and Restorative Opportunities Program, engaging in restorative justice initiatives; providing / receiving information to / from victims; providing opportunities for and delivering victim-offender mediation services to address serious crime nationally, and supporting ongoing activities that promote the successful reintegration of offenders into the community.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.