The John Howard Society of Durham Region's mission is to reduce the impact of crime and its causes by providing a spectrum of effective prevention and intervention program. Currently, our Ajax-Pickering Office: provides support counseling services, groups for parenting and anger management, assistance with Record Suspensions (Pardons), facilitates the After School Jobs for Youth Program, provides in-home support and interventions to families of teens with ongoing problematic behaviours, facilitates groups for youth referred by the police, and refer to other internal and external programs to ...