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HALFWAY HOUSE [18 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Administration
  • Criminology
DEF

An offender who escapes from, or fails to return to, the penitentiary or prison or halfway house.

OBS

Fugitive Offenders Act.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration pénitentiaire
  • Criminologie
CONT

Le projet Condor consiste en une équipe spéciale dédiée à la recherche et à l’arrestation des délinquants illégalement en liberté. Cette initiative regroupe des membres de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC) et du Service correctionnel du Canada (SCC).

OBS

Loi sur les criminels fugitifs.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Administración penitenciaria
  • Criminología
CONT

De conformidad con este artículo, puede emitirse un mandamiento de detención sobre la base de pruebas que, a juicio del magistrado, autoricen la emisión de un mandamiento de detención de una persona acusada de cometer un delito correspondiente o, según sea el caso, de una persona que presuntamente está ilegalmente en libertad después de haber sido condenada por un delito cometido dentro de la jurisdicción de los tribunales de justicia penal de Malta.

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Record 2 2024-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Administration
  • Social Services and Social Work
  • Indigenous Sociology
CONT

An Indigenous halfway house aligns with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action which seek to return power and rights of the Indigenous community to utilize Indigenous practices of conviction, rehabilitation, and reintegration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration pénitentiaire
  • Services sociaux et travail social
  • Sociologie des Autochtones
CONT

Il devrait y avoir une maison de transition pour Autochtones, qui serait semblable au Pavillon de ressourcement, parce que, dans certaines maisons de transition, des obstacles viennent nuire à la pratique de la spiritualité autochtone.

Spanish

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Record 3 - external organization data 2023-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 4 - external organization data 2023-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 5 - external organization data 2022-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 6 2017-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Criminology
  • Social Services and Social Work
OBS

The Regional Halfway House Association(RHHA) is a non-profit alliance of over 130 community residential facilities who work together to ensure the safety of Canada's communities. RHHA supports the safe, gradual reintegration of men and women in coflict with the law within the community. RHHA members also work with various other agencies to improve integration and communications with criminal justice services throughout Canada.

OBS

As an organization, [RHHA’s] mission is to ensure the successful reintegration of offenders into the community through the use of evidence-based programs tailored to suit the needs of [its] clients. RHHA advocates for improvements in training, funding, and support strategies for community-based residential facilities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Criminologie
  • Services sociaux et travail social

Spanish

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Record 7 2017-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Social Services and Social Work
OBS

The Prairie Region Halfway House Association(PRHHA) was founded in 2003 in order to contribute towards a more effective justice system. The PRHHA membership is comprised of community-based residential service providers as well as various governmental agencies and stakeholders who work together to promote and facilitate community-based criminal justice services and resources. PRHHA is committed to improving the safety of all prairie communities by ensuring the successful reintegration and rehabilitation of offenders. [Their] mission is to ensure the safe, successful reintegration of offenders into the community through the use of evidence-based programs tailored to suit the needs of [their] clients. PRHHA advocates for improvements in training, funding, and support strategies for community-based residential facilities.

OBS

Mission Statement. The Prairie Region Halfway House Assocation is a member organization dedicated to providing information, education, leadership and advocacy for its membership and the community to promote successful and healthy reintegration and community safety.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Services sociaux et travail social

Spanish

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Record 8 2016-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

The British Columbia-Yukon Halfway House Association was founded to promote the interests of community residential facilities within British Columbia and Yukon. BCYHHA serves as a forum for the halfway house, criminal justice and treatment facilities who work together to promote and facilitate community-based criminal justice resources and services.

OBS

[The] mission is to ensure the safe, successful reintegration of offenders into the community through the use of evidence-based programs tailored to suit the needs of ... clients. BCYHHA continues to advocate for improvements in training, funding, and support strategies for community-based residential facilities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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Record 9 2016-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Sociology
OBS

The Atlantic Halfway House Association is a self-sustaining, non-governmental organization of service professionals and agencies who believe in the positive impacts of community re-integration and working together to achieve a premier industry standard in community corrections in Atlantic Canada. AHHA members work together with communities to promote client integration and public safety. The AHHA and its members promote community release and the effective use of community resources such that all clients are placed in a least restrictive environment, which promotes personal growth and safe integration at the earliest opportunity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Sociologie

Spanish

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Record 10 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Services and Social Work
DEF

Transitional accommodation ... provided for those who cannot live in their own homes but are ready to be discharged from institutions ..., e.g. the ex-mental hospital patient who is well enough to go out to work but still needs a certain amount of care.

Key term(s)
  • half-way house

French

Domaine(s)
  • Services sociaux et travail social
OBS

Équivalents adoptés par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des services sociaux.

OBS

Le terme «maison de transition» englobe les maisons d'hébergement, où les victimes habitent pour une période de quelques semaines pendant laquelle elles se relocalisent, et les maisons de deuxième étape, pour les femmes qui ont besoin d'un suivi plus formel, plus structuré et de plus longue durée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Servicios sociales y trabajo social
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Record 11 2001-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Social Services and Social Work
OBS

In the National Occupational Classification (NOC), an official occupational title in Group 4212 - Community and Social Service Workers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Services sociaux et travail social
OBS

Dans la Classification nationale des professions (CNP), titres de professions officiels dans le Groupe 4212 - Travailleurs/travailleuses des services communautaires et sociaux.

Spanish

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Record 12 1998-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens

Spanish

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Record 13 1997-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Provincial Government Programs (Canadian)
OBS

Program of the Calgary John Howard Society, Bedford House.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens
OBS

Programme de Calgary John Howard Society, Bedford House.

Key term(s)
  • Programme résidentiel de traitement de groupe (maison de transition)

Spanish

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Record 14 1995-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
Key term(s)
  • sensible halfway house

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
OBS

Source(s) : Sault Ste-Marie [1978] 2 RCS [Recueil des arrêts de la Cour suprême du Canada] 1299.

Spanish

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Record 15 1994-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Administration
Key term(s)
  • half way house concept
  • halfway house concept

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration pénitentiaire
OBS

Source(s) : Sault Ste-Marie [1978] 2 R.C.S. [Recueil des arrêts de la Cour suprême] 1322.

Spanish

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Record 16 1992-12-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

Agencies and individuals working in community-based treatment programs for the socially stigmatized. Purposes are: to assist members to function more effectively through the exchange of information regarding management and treatment, with the goal of helping the socially handicapped achieve a satisfactory return to the community; to develop and implement a program of public information and education in the field of community-based treatment; to assist social institutions within communities to accept, along with socially handicapped individuals, the responsibility for coping with crime, substance abuse, mental health, delinquency; and related social problems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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Record 17 1991-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Health Institutions

French

Domaine(s)
  • Établissements de santé

Spanish

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Record 18 1981-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
OBS

The two-tier system works well, but it is only a halfway house, a stopgap arrangement. The frozen and limited total of official gold would soon put a throttle on the expansion of total world trade were it not for the new plan adopted by the IMP [the International Monetary Fund] to create "paper gold" in the form of Special Drawing Rights(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

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