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This may be too specific, so I won't go into a lot of detail until I see whether there's someone on the board who can help. But, basically...
I have a teenage MC in either Toronto or Vancouver (I can move her wherever the system would be easiest, plot wise) who has serious violence issues. She's been in trouble with the police several times, and also had trouble at school.
As the story opens, I want her to be being kicked out of school and forced into a community service/treatment program - this program, of course, is a front for a nefarious quasi-criminal organization, but the courts don't know that.
So, I'm trying to figure out how this would look. I think I'm okay on the kicked out of school part, but I'm not sure how to get her into the program. 42(2)(p) of the YCJA apparently provides for a deferred custody and supervision order, and there are conditions that go with that, so I'm assuming that one of the conditions, given that she's kicked out of school, could be attendance at this program. I think it's the judge who lays out the conditions of the order, but I'm assuming that s/he would do so in consultation with... somebody.
Does anyone know who that somebody is? And would it be the same somebody who supervises my MC's compliance with the order? And given that my MC has been in trouble in the past, is she likely to have already established a relationship with some sort of case worker, and might this case worker be the person who makes the recommendation to the judge?
Have I got anyof this right? Am I missing important aspects? Thanks for any help...
I have a teenage MC in either Toronto or Vancouver (I can move her wherever the system would be easiest, plot wise) who has serious violence issues. She's been in trouble with the police several times, and also had trouble at school.
As the story opens, I want her to be being kicked out of school and forced into a community service/treatment program - this program, of course, is a front for a nefarious quasi-criminal organization, but the courts don't know that.
So, I'm trying to figure out how this would look. I think I'm okay on the kicked out of school part, but I'm not sure how to get her into the program. 42(2)(p) of the YCJA apparently provides for a deferred custody and supervision order, and there are conditions that go with that, so I'm assuming that one of the conditions, given that she's kicked out of school, could be attendance at this program. I think it's the judge who lays out the conditions of the order, but I'm assuming that s/he would do so in consultation with... somebody.
Does anyone know who that somebody is? And would it be the same somebody who supervises my MC's compliance with the order? And given that my MC has been in trouble in the past, is she likely to have already established a relationship with some sort of case worker, and might this case worker be the person who makes the recommendation to the judge?
Have I got anyof this right? Am I missing important aspects? Thanks for any help...