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Purpose

The "Pathways to Purpose: A Youth Empowerment and Justice Reintegration Program" is a three-year, community-driven initiative designed to reduce youth violence and gang involvement among racialized youth aged 12 to 17 in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick who are in contact with the youth criminal justice system. The program delivers wraparound services-including case management, mentorship, trauma-informed counselling, restorative justice supports, and gang exit programming-to youth at multiple stages of justice system involvement: post-arrest, during diversion or community-based sentencing, and throughout rehabilitation and reintegration. It provides individualized, culturally competent, and trauma-informed interventions that recognize the unique, multilayered barriers faced by racialized youth and their families.