Program directory · Correctional Service Canada

Chaplaincy Services

Department

Correctional Service Canada

Program code

BUK03 (CSC)

Core responsibility

Correctional Interventions

In Departmental Plans

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

What it does

Chaplaincy services contribute to Correctional Interventions by offering a continuum of care that begins at intake, through incarceration to post-release. To accommodate offenders’ right to participate in and express their religion or spirituality, CSC arranges services provided by qualified professionals and volunteers from Canadian faith communities.

The program supports the role of spirituality in helping offenders reintegrate safely into the community, ensuring that all offenders, no matter their faith or beliefs, have access to support for issues of faith, purpose, and meaning, as well as relationships with themselves and others.

Institutional chaplains provide and coordinate religious services, rites and rituals according to the diverse religious and spiritual needs of offenders at an institution. Through institutional chaplaincy services, offenders are provided with spiritually based encounters to address various aspects of human experience as well as crisis intervention in response to personal loss, institutional disruptions, and challenging life events. Institutional chaplains contribute to offender case management and provide opportunities for offenders to examine their behaviours and take accountability for their actions as they discover new ways of living during incarceration.

Key chaplaincy activities include the provision of religious and spiritual services and support from Chaplains and faith community volunteers, involvement in the Case Management process, as well as initiatives to assist in safe community reintegration through partnership with local faith communities.

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.