This is a glossary to help you understand what the 'Youth and Adults Correctional Services' program is all about. It's made with important terms used or related to the program.
Community Center
Noun
Public locations where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes.
Example: The teenager needs a place to get information and advice about consuming drugs.
fr: Centre communautaire
Correctional Officer
noun
An officer responsible for the custody, safety, security, and supervision of inmates in a prison or any other correctional facility.
Example: A correctional officer intervened in a violent situation between two inmates.
fr: Agent correctionnel
Delinquency
noun
Failure to do what law or duty requires.
Example: They tried to steer him away from delinquency by giving him a job in their store.
fr: Délinquance
Empathy
noun
Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings and motives.
Example: She felt empathy for the delinquent.
fr: Empathie
Low income
noun
Of or relating to individuals or households supported by an income that is below average.
Example: This family needs financial help due to their low income.
fr: Faible revenu
Marginal
Adjective
Participating only slightly in the life of two cultural groups without feeling identified with either group.
Example: I don't want to call him marginal, but he's not a major character.
fr: Marginal
Mental health
Noun
The psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment.
Example: Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
fr: Santé mentale
Prison
noun
A building of confinement of persons held while awaiting trial or after conviction.
Example: He went to prison for two weeks.
fr: Prison
Rehabilitation
noun
The restoration of someone to a condition of health or useful and constructive activity,
Example: He needs rehabilitation to get back his feet.
