Evaluation report : Rapport d'évaluation : Programme communautaire de maintien des acquis

As such, the Community Maintenance Program was developed in 2001 to address the challenges associated with the design and delivery of specialized maintenance programs in the community, particularly to the address concerns over access to, and availability of programs in the community (Yazar, 2003). [...] With regards to the Community Maintenance Program, at the national level, the Offender Programs and Reintegration Branch is responsible for the development of tools and training materials as well as the overall monitoring of the program. [...] However, due to the scope of the evaluation of CSC’s Correctional Programs, the evaluation of the Community Maintenance Program focused on the statistical analysis of outcomes and it was not possible to examine factors that might have contributed to the high dropout rate. [...] Given that the Community Maintenance Program is being implemented in such a way as to gradually replace specialized maintenance programs (CSC, 2005), the present evaluation also assessed the effectiveness of the Community Maintenance Program compared to specialized maintenance programs delivered in the community. [...] If the specialized maintenance programs and the generic Community Maintenance Program are comparable with respect to the extent to which they respond to offender risk and responsivity, the specialized maintenance program model would still be expected to be more effective than the generic model due to its greater adherence to the need principle.