2025 to 2026 GBA Plus supplementary information table

P1: Institutional Management and Support

1. No
2. The performance indicators associated with this program do not report on offender-level details as this program area monitors performance at the incident-level. With respect to Structured Intervention Units (SIUs), we do not have specific data points on GBA Plus for inmates in SIUs. However, we do have a stream of the SIU Motivational Module for Indigenous inmates, which includes cultural interventions, in comparison with the non-Indigenous stream. The interventions are also different for women than for men inmates in SIUs. Also included in the SIU policy is the requirement to consider gender diversity, in assessing a transfer to the SIU. Research would, however, have to be done to further monitor and report on the program’s impacts by gender and diversity.
3. N/A

P2: Supervision

1. No
2. The performance indicators associated with this program do not report on offender-level details as this program area monitors performance at the incident-level.
3. N/A

P23: Preventive Security and Intelligence

1. No
2. The performance indicators associated with this program do not report on offender-level details as this program area monitors performance at the incident-level.
3. N/A

P3: Drug Enforcement

1. No
2. The performance indicators associated with this program do not report on offender-level details as this program area monitors performance at the incident-level.
3. N/A

P4: Clinical Services and Public Health

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. There are no notable future initiatives to expand the program's capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity at this time.

P5: Mental Health Services

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. There are no notable future initiatives to expand the program's capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity at this time.

P6: Food Services

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. Food Services now has a national menu that supports the nutritional requirements of its offender population in both the men's and woman’s institutions. Since October 2023, the five women institutions have transitioned from a site-specific menu to a modified version of the national menu adapted to their nutritional needs. The Food Services Management Information System has the capacity to report on religious diets, diets of conscience, by gender type, and by aging population.

P7: Accommodation Services

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. The data for the indicators for this program can be disaggregated for women and Indigenous offenders. The only caveat is that since the number of "accommodation services" grievances from women offenders will likely be quite low, the rates per 1,000 may not be very meaningful.
   The 2020 to 2025 Accommodation Plan estimates accommodation requirements for three sub-populations (women, Indigenous and aging offenders) and for specialized health services.

P8: Offender Case Management

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. NIL

P9: Community Engagement

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. 2021 was the first year that the National Victims Services Program was able to report on demographic data related to victims, including ethnicity and gender. The Program generated a number of demographic data reports that were shared with Public Safety Canada for publication in its Corrections and Conditional Release Statistical Overview. The reports were also shared with external stakeholders, including members of the Regional Victims Advisory Committees, Citizen Advisory Committees and Regional Ethnocultural Advisory Committees. This has helped to raise awareness of the demographics of registered victims. While the voluntary, self-reported data remains incomplete, as CSC cannot require victims to provide the information, CSC will continue to encourage victims to provide demographic data through ongoing engagement with them. Knowing that statistically, Indigenous and Black communities suffer victimization of some crimes, such as homicide, at a rate much higher per capita than non-Indigenous or non-visible minority counterparts, CSC believes this means we need to do more outreach in these communities to raise awareness of our services and victims' rights under the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights. CSC has placed a priority on outreach to these communities for the next three years (2020 to 2021 to 2023 to 2024). We will be taking an intersectional approach to our outreach, also working with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and looking at how services may need to be tailored culturally or by gender. The values in the Victims Application Module for gender reporting were updated in March 2021 to include ‘another gender’ in addition to 'female', 'male' and ‘does not want to provide’.
4. While CSC collects information by gender and diversity for CSC’s volunteers, we do not collect sufficient data to be able to monitor and/or report program impacts. In 2022, we pulled data from the Volunteer Module in HRMS (VHRMS) that included self-reported data for disability, visible monitory and gender for all CSC volunteers, including members of our Citizen Advisory Committees. The report identified that our data is very weak. We do not know if this is attributed to volunteers who have chosen not to self-identify or if they were not given the form to complete when registering as a volunteer. To improve our data for future monitoring and reporting, we are considering an update to our existing self-identification form and a blitz to ask volunteers to submit, if they do not have one on file. However, this would add a burden of data entry on frontline staff and we have to ensure we are managing privacy considerations.

P10: Chaplaincy

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. Chaplaincy Services has been working with the OMS-M team to explore options to capture inmate participation in religious/spiritual activities. This enhanced reporting would provide increased capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity. Additionally, Chaplaincy Services will continue to leverage CRS-M data and adjust service delivery rates through the year. This includes analyzing gender and religion breakdowns for each region and institution on a yearly and quarterly basis to adjust institutional chaplaincy services in response to changing offender religious and spiritual needs, population distribution, and religious affiliation.
4. Program delivery data is gathered through service provider reporting, which provides disaggregated information on spiritual services provided to inmates. In the community, CSC gathers disaggregated information pertaining to faith community reintegration efforts. Data will be gathered under new reintegration initiatives specific to Black offenders, Muslim offenders, Sikh offenders and others.

P11: Elder Services

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. The only area that is reported is Elder Reviews completed; this is reported by men, women, Indigenous and Non-Indigenous.  Also related to Elder Services is reporting on the Interest in Traditional Healing Path flag – which is also reported by men, women, Indigenous and non-Indigenous. 

P22: Correctional Programs

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. NIL

P15: Offender Education

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. NIL

P16: CORCAN Employment and Employability

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. NIL. CORCAN does not have any specific standalone plans. As part of CSC, CORCAN uses the same databases as the rest of CSC; therefore, any plans for improvements in databases such as the Offender Management System will have positive impacts for CORCAN as well.

P17: Social Program

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. An evaluation of social programs is expected in fiscal year 2026-2027. This is expected to drive new data-collection initiatives.   The Reintegration Services Division (RSD) is currently seeking data on unstructured social activities, which will provide disaggregated information on activities geared to offenders based on gender and diversity. RSD is also in ongoing discussion with the OMS-M team on the feasibility of tracking unstructured social activities within the new OMS, which would enhance our reporting capabilities.

P18: Community Management and Security

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. NIL

P19: Community-Based Residential Facilities

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. The data for the indicators for this program can be disaggregated by gender and diversity. The Population Management and Transfers Division is working to explore ways to better capture and analyze information on residential services in the community to improve our ability to report on impacts on access to accommodation, wait times and alignment with release plans, which will support future gender and diversity initiatives.

P20: Community Correctional Centres

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. NIL

P21: Community Health Services

1. Yes
2. N/A
3. There are no notable future initiatives to expand the program's capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity at this time.