Mission Statement, Purpose, Activities
MISSION STATEMENT
The John Howard Society is an organization which exists to promote and support healthy and safe communities, by mobilizing partners and engaging families and individuals, while addressing the social conditions that give rise to crime.
PURPOSE
The John Howard Society actively promotes policy and legislation that creates and maintains just, peaceful and safe communities. The Society recommends policies, which recognize the limitations of the criminal justice system to prevent crime and attempts to identify and promote the benefits of alternative prevention initiatives. The Society is active in advocacy, research, communications, community education, and coalition building and resource development.
The John Howard Society has developed and provided the highest quality of therapeutic treatment services aiming at promoting and implementing a fuller continuum of nurturing programs which meet the criminogenic needs of clients and their families. The Society believes in the potential for positive change in offenders with wrap around intensive services for the rehabilitative needs of residential care clientele.
A primary focus is the provision of community based services to offenders and their families, young offenders, victims, and community development. Due to a newly developed focus on more pro-active, preventative measures for the reduction of crime and victimization, the Society is able to provide community members and organizations with effective community based programs and services for troubled youth and their families ensuring a safer and healthier community.
ACTIVITIES
The Saint John Branch is a member of the John Howard Society in Canada which is a federation of provincial/ territorial and local Societies and comprised of people whose goal is to: understand and respond to crime, to work with people who have come into conflict with the law, to review, evaluate and advocate for changes in the criminal justice process and to engage in public education on matters involving criminal law and its application.