How CORCAN works with offenders

The CORCAN Employment and Employability Program (EEP) provides offenders with what they need to get and keep employment when they return to the community. It helps them:

• acquire employment and employability skills
• develop the pro-social attitudes and behaviours that are valued by employers
• gain technical skills

Offenders can learn and then practice the skills and behaviours in real-life work environments like:

• CORCAN supervised on-the-job training
• employment assignments in other areas of Correctional Service Canada (CSC), or
• with private industry partners

To help offenders achieve their reintegration objectives, CORCAN works with:

• CSC operational sites
• other government departments
• community organizations, and
• private industry

CD 735 Employment and Employability Program provides the framework for the offender opportunities outlined in this section.

Offenders who are employed in the community are three times less likely to reoffend. Thus, the program improves their chances of finding and maintaining sustainable employment as part of a safe and successful reintegration into the community.

The various parts of the program include:

Want to learn more about how CORCAN skills training has made a real impact on offenders becoming law-abiding citizens? Check out our video on helping offenders find meaningful employment.