Cecil Facer Youth Centre

• Cecil Facer Youth Centre

• Cecil Facer School (Sudbury, Ont.)

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.

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.

No authorizing agent has been identified for this agency.

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

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

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

Archivist(s):
McIlroy