Youth Probation Officer A Juvenile Probation Officer monitors criminal offenders that are 18 years of age and younger that have been sentenced to a period of time on probation instead of spending time in prison. meeting with the young offenders regularly, as well as their families, teachers, counselors, to ensure that the youth has been following the conditions of their probation. must check regularly and make sure the youth has been meeting their obligations, such as court appearances and community service.

Expected Hours generally ( 7:00am-7:00pm) must be prepared for calls during the night or weekends from courts or clients. About 40hours a week is expected. Risk of Injury depend on unstable youth that may have anger problems or more dangerous conditions/issues. Place of work can be anywhere from the Office, Court, or Jail. The look-out on the work day can change at anytime depending on the youth’s actions. *Dress professionally and casually.

Starting salary for an entry level Juvenile Probation Officer holding a qualified Bachelors Degree is $15.24/hr or $31,716 on an full time employment schedule. *The more years of experience the higher the pay.

The job outlook is good, with the field expected to grow strongly through the year Court systems expecting to be working with non- violent youths on probation instead of prison time. Juvenile PO’s will be greatly needed, rather than juvenile detention centers.

UBCO for 4 years to get my bachelors degree in social work. After I get my degree I will need to take 3 YPO courses to become an official Youth Probation Officer. Total cost for schooling, tuition, books.. ( $ 25,765 )

If this didn’t work out I would go into either Social work, Drug and Alcohol Counseling or Psychology. I would pick one of these because I like to help people with changing their lives, mostly youth. When people get on a bad track in life I like to help them try to get back on the right track and help them find ways to cope with their problems, and like to help people get out of bad situations.

I’m interested in this career because I really want to work with troubled youth, because I have seen people and my life screw up and end up in jail at a young age. I want the chance to try and help kids get through the after effect of their bad decisions and help them change their negative ways. I’ve been interested in being a youth probation officer for a while now, I wanted to be a social worker for a long time but just recently decided I would much rather do this. One of my biggest interests are defiantly helping people so that makes this job so good for me.