Mission Statement
As an alternative to court, we provide an opportunity for youth and adult offenders to fully appreciate and become accountable for their behavior, and for the healing of their victims and of community relationships, by encouraging those most directly affected to take responsibility for considering what has happened and what should happen as a consequence. By so doing, we believe that offending behavior can be transformed into a positive community resource.
How We Achieve This
The Chief Justice of Ontario Roy McMurtry spoke of youth justice at the Opening of the Courts for 2003. In deploring the absence of government support in the area of youth at risk and anti social behaviours in youth, he pointed out that "it should be pretty obvious that our courts alone will never be able to provide a social justice order based on caring, compassion, and social justice." We believe that we have and continue to take up that challenge. We do not claim to have all the answers but we do feel that we are on the way of the answer.
