Cecil Facer Youth Centre

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Cecil Facer Youth Centre

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Cecil Facer Youth Centre

    Other form(s) of name

    • Cecil Facer School (Sudbury, Ont.)

    Identifiers for corporate bodies

    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1971-

    History

    The Cecil Facer School officially opened in August 1972 in Sudbury, Ontario as a bilingual, inter-denominational facility capable of holding 120 wards from northern Ontario. This Reception and Assessment Centre dealt with all new admissions from the Provincial Courts (Family Division), while southern Ontario wards were admitted to the Syl Apps Campus. In 1987, it ceased operations as a training school and re-opened as Cecil Facer Youth Centre for the Ministry of Correctional Services. The youth in custody at Cecil Facer range from 12 to 17 years of age and, as of 2010, it became male-only facility. In 2012, with the creation of new youth detention facilities, the facility was downgraded from 48 to 32 beds.

    Places

    Legal status

    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Cecil Facer Youth Centre was opened as a bilingual training school for boys. The facility was named after the first judge of juvenile court in Sudbury, who was respected for refusing to allow police to hold youth offenders in the Sudbury jail after their arrest. Training schools are facilities for youth placed under the wardship of the Ontario government. The schools offer a variety of vocational and occupational training to their wards, as well as treatment services and recreational programs. After 1978, the government's policy was to place youths in training schools only when they posed a danger to themselves or to others.

    Address

    No authorizing agent has been identified for this agency.

    Internal structures/genealogy

    General context

    Relationships area

    Related entity

    Ontario. Dept. of Correctional Services (1968-1972)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA76

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Dept. of Correctional Services controls Cecil Facer Youth Centre

    Dates of relationship

    1971-1972

    Description of relationship

    Related entity

    Ontario. Ministry of Correctional Services (1972-1993) (1972-1993)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA81

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Dates of relationship

    1972-1977

    Description of relationship

    Related entity

    Ontario. Children's Services Division (1977-1981) (1977-1981)

    Identifier of related entity

    BA761

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Children's Services Division (1977-1981) controls Cecil Facer Youth Centre

    Dates of relationship

    1977-1981

    Description of relationship

    Related entity

    Ontario. Ministry of Community and Social Services (1972-2018)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA35

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Ministry of Community and Social Services controls Cecil Facer Youth Centre

    Dates of relationship

    1981-

    Description of relationship

    Access points area

    Subject access points

    Place access points

    Epithet

    Control area

    Authority record identifier

    CA2377

    Institution identifier

    Rules and/or conventions used

    RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

    Status

    Approved

    Level of detail

    Dates of creation, revision and deletion

    2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

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      Script(s)

        Sources

        Ontario Government Telephone Directory, 1998. KWIK Index to Services, 1999. Ministry of Correctional Services Annual Report, 1987. Ministry of Correctional Services Annual Report, 1991.

        Maintenance notes

        Archivist(s):
        McIlroy