Specialist High Skills Major – Justice,
Community Safety and Emergency Services
The Specialist
High Skills Major (SHSM) in Justice, Community Safety, and Emergency Services
enables students to build a foundation of sector-focused knowledge and skills
before graduating and entering apprenticeship training, college, university, or
an entry-level position in the workplace.
Where local
circumstances allow, boards may elect to offer one or more variants of the SHSM
in a given sector, each with a particular area of focus. This SHSM may be
designed to have a particular focus – for example, on legal services, policing
and private security services, the armed forces, or correctional services. This
focus is achieved through the selection of the four major credits in the
bundle.
A bundle of eight Grade 11 and Grade 12
credits
These credits make up
the bundle:
- four justice, community safety,
and emergency services major credits that provide
sector-specific knowledge and skills. The four courses must include at least
one Grade 11 and one Grade 12 credit, and may include one cooperative education
credit related to the sector. (This cooperative education credit would be
additional to the two that are required in the bundle; see below);
- two other required credits from the Ontario curriculum, in each of which some
expectations must be met through a contextualized learning activity (CLA) for
the justice, community safety, and emergency services sector. The two credits
include:
- one in English1 and
- one in mathematics;
- two cooperative education
credits that provide authentic learning
experiences in a workplace setting, enabling students to refine, extend, apply,
and practice sector-specific knowledge and skills.
Note: that a compulsory
English credit is required in Grade 11 and in Grade 12 for graduation with an
OSSD. Schools may determine whether the CLA, required
Sector-recognized certifications and/or
training courses/programs
This SHSM
sector requires students to complete a specified number of compulsory and elective sector-recognized
certifications and/or training courses/programs, as indicated in the following
table.
NOTE: Where an item in the table is capitalized, it is
the proper name of the specific certification or training course/program that
is appropriate for the SHSM. Where an item is lower cased, it is the name of an
area, type, or category of training for which specific certifications or
training courses/programs should be selected by the school or board. The
requirements are summarized in the table below.
Four (4) compulsory
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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Level C –
includes automated external defibrillation (AED)
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conflict resolution
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Standard First Aid
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Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System
(WHMIS) – generic (i.e., not site-specific) instruction
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Three (3) electives from the list below
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advanced training in a technique (e.g., climbing)
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ambulation, lifting, and transfer
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animal first aid
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basic electrical safety
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compass/map/global positioning system (GPS)
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concussion awareness
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confined space awareness
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customer service
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defensive driving
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emergency preparedness – basic
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emergency response techniques
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emergency services tools (e.g., fire hose)
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ethical considerations
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fall protection
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fire safety and fire extinguisher use
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geographic information system (GIS)
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group dynamics
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health and safety – basic
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incident management
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Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (ICE)
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ladder safety training
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leadership skills
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legal terminology/ language of law
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legal/administrative procedures (e.g., handling
subpoenas)
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life-saving (Bronze Cross or higher)
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lockout/tagging
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marine safety/marine first aid
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Mental Health First Aid
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military – basic
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non-violent crisis intervention
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personality inventory
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Pleasure Craft Operator
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portfolio development
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project management
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radio operator
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SafeTALK
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safe weapon handling
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search and rescue
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self-defence
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wilderness first aid
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wilderness survival
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Working at Heights
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Experiential Learning & Career
Exploration
Experiential learning
and career exploration opportunities relevant to the sector might include the
following:
- one-on-one observation of a cooperative education student at a placement in the justice, community safety, and emergency services sector (an example of job twinning)
- a day-long observation of a justice, community safety, and emergency services sector employer or employee (an example of job shadowing)
- a one- or two-week work experience with a municipal government official or a professional in the sector (an example of work experience)
- a volunteer experience accompanying an emergency first aid provider at a community event
- a leadership experience in a school related to drug-use awareness
- a visit to a detention centre
- a monitoring experience in a traffic court or in a courtroom of a trial, which is open to the public
- a visit to a fire hall or a military base, or attendance at an emergency services career fair
Sector Partnered Contextualized Experience (SPCE)
Innovative, Creativity & Entrepreneurship
Training (ICE)
The ICE
training in SHSM programs will allow students to understand the world from the
perspectives of others, generate new ideas, and give students the confidence to
develop strategies to implement and sustain their ideas while considering the
impacts and consequences their innovation has on the world around them.
Or
Sector-delivered Contextualized Coding
(e.g.
SHSM-Agriculture: GPS, GIS,
Computer-controlled Devices with Ontario Federation of Agriculture)
Or
Sector-delivered Contextualized Mathematical literacy
(e.g.
SHSM-Horticulture and Landscaping: estimating, measuring, and budgeting with
Landscape Ontario)
Reach Ahead Experiences
Students are
provided one or more reach ahead experiences – opportunities to take the next
steps along their chosen pathway – as shown in the following examples:
- Apprenticeship: visiting
an approved apprenticeship delivery agent in the sector
- College:
interviewing a college student enrolled in a sector-specific program
- University:
observing a university class in a sector-related program
- Workplace:
interviewing an employee in the sector