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The innovation demonstrated by CCCS is also reflected in the training
that both adult and youth probation officers receive from the Corrections
and Community Justice Division. To become an adult or youth probation
officer requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree and prerequisite JIBC
courses, providing knowledge of the justice system and professional ethics.

t’s a long way from the probation service's beginnings in 1942 when

Ernie Stevens, the province's first adult probation officer, was given two

rooms in downtown Vancouver with some second-hand furniture and
told to supervise all inmates aged sixteen to twenty-four leaving Oakalla
Prison Farm. Fortunately, many, if not most, joined the armed forces to
fight in Europe. In the following years, as probation officers were given more
responsibilities and duties to supervise offenders in the community, the
need for training increased. In those days, probation officers worked with
youth and adult offenders, as well as in family relations (custody access)
matters. By the mid-1970s, extensive training took place in what was the
Marpole Community Correctional Centre Probation Hostel in Vancouver
before moving to the JIBC in 1978.

By the early ’80s, the Corrections Staff Development Division was
advancing comprehensive lesson plans for all training, which grew in scope
and complexity. The program for probation officer and family court coun-
sellor duties expanded, so that by mid-decade the curriculum was divided
into thirty-one modules over eighteen weeks, including an integrated
practicum for new officers to practise their skills. As the 1990s began, there
was a wave of training for recruits who graduated to fill many of the vacan-
cies in the provincial Corrections Branch during reorganization over two
years.

Gordon Hogg, B.C’s current Minister of State for Mining, was earlier
the Children and Family Development Minister, with frontline experience
as a Regional Director of Corrections, Director of Surrey’s Unified Family
Court and Director of the former Willingdon Youth Detention Centre.
Though he trained as a youth probation officer before the Justice Institute
opened, he had some key involvements with the JIBC.

“I did some guest lectures there and spoke to graduating classes.
I was also involved in the development of the risk needs assessment for
B.C. Corrections, which the JI started training in about the mid-1990s.
The Branch brought Don Andrews of Ontario, one of the leading authori-
ties, as we were trying to develop a model that gave great tools for youth
and adult probation officers. I was coordinating the risk-needs assessment
tools, supporting the Corrections Branch to use this cutting-edge model for
looking at risks presented by offenders.

“Tt was early research in evaluating corrections approaches that
allowed the Branch for the first time to do a meta-analysis on what was