In treatment the offender is required to admit that he is a sex offender in need of assistance. He must attend our weekly group therapy sessions. He must not live with or be in the unsupervised company of anyone under the age of 19. He is expected to be a contributing member of his own rehabilitation and that of the other group members. In this sense the group becomes a major element of the offender's support system.
Sex offenders come from all walks of life and all socioeconomic groups.
Untreated, they continue to offend. Changing the offender's behaviour is necessary if we want our community to be a safer one. Treatment that attempts to discover what goes on in an offender's mind may promote safer methods of control than years of unconstructive detention. The major objective of therapy is to restore the sexual offender to the point where they are no longer a danger to other people. People can and do change.