Community Placement Services
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HUMAN RESOURCES MANUAL
POLICY
COMMUNITY PLACEMENT SERVICES
(Also see Workfare, HR # 2-70.)
The AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT) does not seek to be a regular placement site for placement. However, ACT considers accepting community placements for people sentenced to community service hours rather than jail time having regard for the following considerations:
1. the specific duties and responsibilities that would be associated with the placement and the relevance of the particular criminal conviction to the position, and
2. the potential risk posed to clients of ACT as a result of accepting the placement.
Where a person is accepted for community placement, the community placement worker is not considered a volunteer. This person reports to a designated staff member rather than the Program Volunteer Coordinator. The fact that the person is a community placement worker is kept confidential. Only staff working directly with the person are to be informed that the worker is a community placement and not a volunteer.
Revised 1999
