Justice, Community Safety and Emergency Services
SHSM Policy and Implementation Guide – Justice, Community Safety, and Emergency Services
The SHSM – Justice, Community Safety, and Emergency Services enables students to build a foundation of sector-focused knowledge and skills before graduating and entering apprenticeship training, college, university, or an entry-level position in the workplace. Where local circumstances allow, boards may elect to offer one or more variants of the SHSM in a given sector, each with a particular area of focus. This SHSM may be designed to have a particular focus – for example, on legal services, policing and private security services, the armed forces, or correctional services. This focus is achieved through the selection of the four major credits in the bundle.
Required Certifications for the SHSM – Justice, Community Safety, and Emergency Services
Required Courses for the SHSM – Justice, Community Safety, and Emergency Services
A bundle of eight Grade 11 and Grade 12 credits
These credits make up the bundle:
four justice, community safety, and emergency services major credits that provide sector-specific knowledge and skills. The four courses can be any combination of Grade 11 or 12 credits (including all four credits in Grade 11 or all four credits in Grade 12). This may include up to three cooperative education credits related to the sector to count as the major credits (in addition to the two required cooperative education credits in the bundle).
two other required credits from the Ontario curriculum. Schools may commit to including a contextualized learning activity (CLA) for the justice, community safety, and emergency services sector in each of the two credits. In each credit, some of the course expectations are then met through the CLA. (Schools that do not formally commit to including CLAs are still free to offer them in one or more of the credits.) The two credits include:
one in English1 and
one in mathematics;
two cooperative education credits that provide authentic learning experiences in a workplace setting, enabling students to refine, extend, apply, and practise knowledge and skills outlined in the cooperative education curriculum as well as sector-specific knowledge and skills.
Required Experiential Learning and Career Exploration for the SHSM – Justice, Community Safety, and Emergency Services
Experiential learning and career exploration opportunities relevant to the sector might include the following:
one-on-one observation of a cooperative education student at a placement in the justice, community safety, and emergency services sector (an example of job twinning)
a day-long observation of a justice, community safety, and emergency services sector employer or employee (an example of job shadowing)
a one- or two-week work experience with a municipal government official or a professional in the sector (an example of work experience)
a volunteer experience accompanying an emergency first aid provider at a community event
a leadership experience in a school related to drug-use awareness
a visit to a detention centre
a monitoring experience in a traffic court or in a courtroom of a trial, which is open to the public
a visit to a fire hall or a military base, or attendance at an emergency services career fair
Required Reach Ahead Experiences for the SHSM – Justice, Community Safety, and Emergency Services
Students are provided one or more reach ahead experiences – opportunities to take the next steps along their chosen pathway – as shown in the following examples:
Apprenticeship: visiting an approved apprenticeship delivery agent in the sector
College: interviewing a college student enrolled in a sector-specific program
University: observing a university class in a sector-related program
Workplace: interviewing an employee in the sector
Required Sector-Partnered Experiences for the SHSM – Justice, Community Safety, and Emergency Services
All students pursuing an SHSM must complete at least one sector-partnered experience (SPE). SPEs are learning experiences tied to a student's chosen SHSM sector, developed and delivered by sector partners in tandem with teachers. All SPEs focus on one of the following:
innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship (ICE)
coding
mathematical literacy
The concepts of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship (ICE) are inextricably linked. Innovation is the generation and realization of a new idea in the world; this means that innovation contains within it elements of both creativity and entrepreneurship. Creativity comes into play in the generation of ideas to meet a need in the world, based on a fundamental belief that there is more than one right answer to a given problem. Entrepreneurship is the set of activities aimed at building, scaling and sustaining the new ideas into an organization, whether extending an existing organization or creating a new one.
ICE, coding (computer programming), and mathematical literacy are all areas of knowledge that are key to a wide variety of 21st century careers. An SPE is designed to support students in cultivating the mindset that is needed for success in any of these areas of focus – a mindset that includes proposing ideas and solutions, taking smart risks in a safe environment, studying the results, and applying critical thinking.
Future Career Paths
For Justice, Community Safety & Emergency Services majors, possible career paths include:
Air Traffic Controller
Court Recorder
Customs Officer
Firefighter
Forest Fire Officer
Police Officer
Security Manager
Criminologist
Disaster Relief Services Coordinator
Intelligence Officer
Lawyer
Military Officer
Policy Advisor
Probation Officer
Youth Worker – Corrections
Animal Control Officer
Animal Services Worker
Bodyguard
Correctional Officer
Court Clerk
Court Services Officer
Emergency Centre Operations Officer
Emergency Services Dispatcher
Municiple Law Enforcement Officer
Private Investigator
Security Guard
Soldier
Connection to the Community
Attend customized workshops and presentations delivered by experienced professionals in the field
Participate in presentations offered by York Regional Police, York Region Paramedic Services and York Regions Fire
Option to participate in presentations by the Canadian Armed Forces
Attend college information tours in related programs
Dual Credits
JCE SHSM students are automatically eligible to enrol in dual high school/college credit courses during their co-op placements. These courses are taught on a college campus. Choosing this option will reap several benefits:
JCE-related dual credits are considered a grade 12 SHSM major
Taking a dual credit at a college campus is also considered a reach ahead activity
Students earn a free post-secondary credit and a high school credit before graduating from high school and gain access to all campus resources for the entire semester
The courses offered may vary. Find updated Dual Credit information at WWW.YCDSB.CA
Which Schools Offer This Program
Unique to York Catholic District School Board, the JCE SHSM will be available to all students in our Board