Our Goals The Centre for the Children of Offenders will enable the Society to improve the circumstances of women and children involved or at risk of involvement in the Criminal Justice System through the provision of a strategic initiative that will enable us to provides leadership regarding effective programs, services and policy development for the children offenders. In this way the Society can bring attention and services to the children of offenders that they so desperately need. • To provide specific effective interventions in the lives of children of offenders and bring about the public policy changes that will provide for systemic change; • To provide information and education to social service agencies and educational institutions that have overlapping domains of interest or target population groups in which children of offenders will be found; • To improve the self esteem and academic achievements of children in school; • Implementation of a volunteer program to provide information about legal rights and responsibilities and to enable clients to represent themselves. This is now a national model across Canada ; • To provide children of offenders with peer support and opportunities for achievement (day and summer programs; mentoring; etc).