Program directory · Correctional Service Canada

CORCAN Employment and Employability Program

Department

Correctional Service Canada

Program code

BUK09 (CSC)

Core responsibility

Correctional Interventions

In Departmental Plans

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

What it does

As part of correctional interventions utilized to contribute to offender rehabilitation, the CORCAN Employment and Employability Program provides offenders with skills training that develops technical and essential skills that are transferable to community employment. This is achieved through on-the-job training, apprenticeship hours and vocational certifications that improve their ability to find and maintain employment as part of a safe and successful release into the community.

Key activities include teaching a combination of industry standard technical skills (mastery of tools and processes associated with a specific occupational role), transferable skills (with opportunities for offenders to apply these skills in various industry jobs), and essential skills (improve employability and job readiness). These skills are foundational to secure employment opportunities. Other activities include assisting offenders through employment readiness, employment search support services throughout their sentence, as well as transitional employment and training at CORCAN Community Industries, provide interventions and services directly through CORCAN or as complimentary to other CSC employment and employability initiatives.

The program is designed to allow offenders to acquire skills and develop the pro-social attitudes and behaviours that are valued by employers, and is a key part of CSC’s commitment to actively support offenders to become law-abiding citizens.

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.