Halifax Integrated Youth Services is a collaborative, community-based initiative of Correctional Services, in cooperation with partners from the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Department of Community Services and IWK Youth Forensic Services.

Halifax Integrated Youth Services provides coordinated services and supervision to youth sentenced under the Youth Criminal Justice Act by providing access to a range of evidence-based programs and services. Halifax Integrated Youth Services provides services, programs and supervision strategies for all court-sentenced youth in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Halifax Integrated Youth Services also provides services to young people 18 to 20 who are sentenced to adult Court Orders.

Halifax Integrated Youth Services has multiple partnerships with agencies and government departments to facilitate collaboration and implementation of responsive risk assessments and case management plans for individuals involved in the criminal justice system. These services are provided in the community and onsite at Community Corrections field offices and are focused on individual case plans.

Halifax Integrated Youth Services is not a facility-based day program for groups of youths. Rather the approach taken involves engaging high value services and support to meet youth within the stages of change model reflecting their individual risk and needs.