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The “John School”<\/b> concept originated in San Francisco in January 1995 with over 300 men participating successfully in the first year. The program has been expanded from that point to now where there are over 14 Programs operating successfully in Canada including Toronto, Winnipeg, and Edmonton. The school is based on a restorative justice model focusing on educating the offenders who are attempting to buy sex from prostitutes on the streets of Vancouver neighbourhoods. The school will educate offenders in the following areas: <\/p>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 1998 the Vancouver Police Board approved the concept of the Vancouver Police researching the feasibility of starting a John School in Vancouver. A Steering Committee composed of a cross section of agencies and community representatives was struck. In the fall of 1998 a request for expressions of interest for a contract to run a John School and subsequently a school for sex trade workers utilising any money generated by the John School was sent out. February 1999 the John Howard Society was selected by the Steering Committee to operate both schools. The Steering Committee became the Advisory Committee at that time and was tasked with overseeing and directing the John Howard Society as needed in the operation of the schools. A process began of arranging a contractual relationship between the Police Board and John Howard Society for them to operate the school.<\/p>\n In June 1999 the Mayor on behalf of the Vancouver Police Board signed a contract with the John Howard Society to operate the Prostitution Offender Program. <\/p>\n The school is operated as a pre-charge diversion program. Offenders arrested in the course of police undercover sting operations for Section 213 cc, Communicating for the Purpose of Prostitution, are screened by police and if deemed appropriate for diversion they are offered the option to attend a Prostitution Offender Program class. They will then be referred to the Prostitution Offender Program Co-ordinator from the John Howard Society for intake and registration. The cost of attending the school is $500. The class is one day in length featuring a variety of speakers including; community members, ex-sex trade workers, police officers, health professionals. <\/p>\n The Prostitution Offender Program is an opportunity for the city to respond in a tangible fashion to an ongoing societal and criminal issue in an innovative fashion. The program involves the communities affected by prostitution and educates the offenders to the issues surrounding street prostitution and the harms caused to the community at large by it. The school is operated by the John Howard Society but is run in close association with members of the Vancouver Police Vice Unit and the Prostitution Offenders Program. <\/p>\n If you have questions and or comments please e-mail the Vice Squad directly at: vpd_vice@city.vancouver.bc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a9 2004 Vancouver Police Department <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u05db\u05d9\u05d5\u05d5\u05df \u05e9\u05de\u05d8\u05e8\u05ea \u05d4\u05d9\u05e9\u05d9\u05d1\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d9\u05ea\u05d4 \u05dc\u05d4\u05d5\u05d1\u05d9\u05dc \u05dc\u05e9\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5\u05d9 \u05e2\u05de\u05d3\u05d5\u05ea, \u05d4\u05d9\u05d0 \u05e0\u05e4\u05ea\u05d7\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d4\u05ea\u05d9\u05d9\u05d7\u05e1\u05d5\u05ea \u05e7\u05e6\u05e8\u05d4 \u05dc\u05e2\u05de\u05d3\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05e7\u05d9\u05d9\u05de\u05d5\u05ea \u05db\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d1\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc \u05d1\u05d9\u05d7\u05e1 \u05dc\u05d6\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea. \u05dc\u05e9\u05dd \u05db\u05da \u05d4\u05ea\u05d1\u05e7\u05e9\u05d4 \u05e4\u05e8\u05d5\u05e4’ \u05de\u05d9\u05e0\u05d4 \u05e6\u05de\u05d7 \u05dc\u05d4\u05e6\u05d9\u05d2 \u05e1\u05e7\u05e8 \u05e9\u05e2\u05e8\u05db\u05d4 \u05dc\u05e4\u05e0\u05d9 \u05db\u05e9\u05e0\u05d4 \u05dc\u05d1\u05e7\u05e9\u05ea\u05d5 \u05e9\u05dc \u05d7”\u05db \u05e8\u05e9\u05e3 \u05d7\u05df, \u05e9\u05d4\u05d9\u05d4 \u05de\u05e2\u05d5\u05e0\u05d9\u05d9\u05df \u05dc\u05d7\u05d5\u05e7\u05e7 \u05de\u05e2\u05d9\u05df \u05de\u05d9\u05e1\u05d5\u05d3 \u05d7\u05dc\u05e7\u05d9 \u05e9\u05dc \u05e1\u05d5\u05d2 \u05de\u05e1\u05d5\u05d9\u05d9\u05dd \u05e9\u05dc \u05d6\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea. \u05e4\u05e8\u05d5\u05e4’ \u05e6\u05de\u05d7 \u05d7\u05d9\u05dc\u05e7\u05d4 \u05d0\u05ea \u05ea\u05d5\u05e6\u05d0\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05e1\u05e7\u05e8, \u05e2\u05dc \u05e4\u05d9\u05d5 48% \u05de\u05df \u05d4\u05e6\u05d9\u05d1\u05d5\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc\u05d9…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-17","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oritkamir.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oritkamir.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oritkamir.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oritkamir.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oritkamir.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oritkamir.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oritkamir.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oritkamir.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oritkamir.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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