Our Collaborators
Direct Your Life collaborates with industry leaders who share the same values that people can recover, reclaim and transform their lives, all people have unique strengths, talents and skills and community provides a key to helping people achieve well-being.
Institutions We Serve
Bath Institution
Bath Institution is a federal prison located just east of Bath, Ontario, about 25 kilometres west of Kingston. Opened in 1972, it sits on a federal reserve property shared with Millhaven Institution and has a rated capacity of 516 inmates.
It is also home to the Regional Intermediate Mental Health Unit, established in 2016 from the former Ontario Regional Treatment Centre, providing specialized mental health services within the facility.
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Warkworth Institution
Warkworth Institution is a medium-security federal prison just outside Brighton, Ontario. Opened in 1967 on over 200 acres, it houses several hundred inmates in multiple units and is a major local employer, providing substantial annual grants to Brighton and Northumberland County.
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Focused on rehabilitation and secure custody, it offers living unit arrangements and programs that help prepare inmates for successful reintegration into society, highlighting the value of community partnerships in that process.
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Beaver Creek Institution
Beaver Creek Institution is a federal prison in Gravenhurst, Ontario, operated by the Correctional Service of Canada, with a total capacity of 717 inmates. Its minimum-security site opened in 1961 and houses 201 inmates in residential-style units, with an additional 50-bed unit added in 2015.
The medium-security site opened in 1998 as Fenbrook Institution and merged with the minimum site in 2014. It now accommodates 516 inmates, including a 96-bed unit added the same year.
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Millhaven Institution
Millhaven Institution is a maximum-security federal prison located in Bath, Ontario, with a capacity of about 500 inmates. Opened in 1971 to replace Kingston Penitentiary, it is one of Canada’s two identically designed maximum-security prisons.
Millhaven handles some of Canada’s highest-risk offenders and has also served as the regional assessment unit for new federal inmates in Ontario. It shares its federal property with Bath Institution and features multiple living and secure assessment units within its complex.
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Grand Valley Institution
Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario, is a multi-level federal prison with a capacity of about 215 inmates. Opened in 1997, it is Ontario’s only federal women’s prison, featuring cottages for lower-security and pods for maximum-security inmates.
The institution offers programs focused on rehabilitation and family connection, including a program that allows mothers to keep their children with them during incarceration
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The Federal Training Center(CFF)
Collins Bay Institution is located on the Bath Road in the City of Kingston, Ontario. Collins Bay Institution first opened in 1930 as a medium-security facility under the name "Preferred Class Penitentiary (Ontario)".
Effective April 1, 2013, Collins Bay Institution, a medium-security facility and Frontenac Institution, a minimum-security facility built in 1962, amalgamated as a clustered site. In addition, effective January 2015, Collins Bay Institution opened a maximum-security unit.
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Joyceville Institution
Joyceville Institution is a federal prison located about 20 kilometres northeast of Kingston, Ontario, with a rated capacity of 752 inmates. Built in 1959, it was later joined by the adjacent minimum-security Pittsburgh Institution, constructed in 1963. In 2014, the two facilities were amalgamated into a single clustered site.
Today, Joyceville houses a minimum-security area with residential-style group accommodation, as well as the Regional Assessment and Temporary Detention Units, serving multiple roles within the Correctional Service of Canada.
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Community Partners
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Projects DYL Supports
NexGen Builders
NexGen Builders mentorship program is helping to form the next generation of construction trades workers and professionals.
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Transformation Lab
The Collaborative was created to establish a more effective and equitable justice system that is
responsive to the needs, rights, and perspectives of all young people. Specifically, we envision a future where interaction with the justice system no longer increases the likelihood of recidivism for youth. Instead, in our vision, the justice experience will foster large support networks and impart tools to youth so that they may effectively navigate any systemic barriers they
encounter.
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