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Career Builders Plus gets a million-dollar boost

MP James Moore came to the David Lam Campus May 20 to announce more than $1
million in federal funding for the College's Career Builder Plus Program. The program offers
career assistance to participants in the Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows and Tri-City areas. The

$1,004,453 boost comes courtesy of Service Canada’s Employment Assistance Services

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Program. The MP for Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam, second from right, with, from
left, The Training Group (TTG) Director, Bob McConkey, TTG Career Consultant Aya Johns,
TTG Program Manager Valerie Lockyer and VP Finance and Administration Karen Maynes.

Criminology Coordinator and students

take a bite out of Big Apple

Criminology Coordinator
Heidi Currie anticipates she'll
be learning as much as her
students during a week-long

trip to New York City.

Currie is leading 25
Criminology students from
her Comparative Criminal
Justice Systems on a trip from
June 7-13 to observe New
York’s community courts in
action, before Vancouver's
first community courts open
this summer in Downtown
Vancouver.

“These students will be
the first observers from
the College of this kind of
innovative practice,” says
Currie.

Students will hone their field
observation methods by
seeing cases move through
the system, along with the
approach and attitudes of key
players. On their return they
will write a research paper
based on the trip.

Commu nity courts sentence

low-level offenders to pay back

the neighbourhood through
community service, while
offering to help them with
problems that are often at the
root of criminal behaviour.

Currie and her students will
visit the community courts

in Midtown and Red Hook.
Midtown Community Court,
which opened in 1993, was
the first community court in
the US. It handles offences
such as prostitution, graffiti,
shoplifting and vandalism.

“There are similar social
problems in Vancouver and
New York such as property
crime, drugs and lack of
support,” says Currie.

This is the first time in
several years that Douglas
Criminology students will be
taking a field study trip and
their first-ever trip to New
York City. Currie decided

the time to resurrect the trip

 

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Criminology Coordinator Heidi Currie and her band of merry students are making their way to New York City to
study an established community court system in action.

was right after speaking with
friend Stephenie Lewis, a
BC Corrections Officer who
had recently returned from
a similar trip with provincial
courts employees. Lewis will

be accompanying Currie and in one field study course, that

her students on a volunteer would be great,” says Currie.

basis to share her perspective.

“IFT could have every
criminology student engage