The Mission:

We are seeking to help them strive Educationally, Economically, Politically, to build Social Development Skills, Organizational Skills and Unity. And if we use these six (6) elements I just mentioned as a guiding light, we believe that they will grow and develop into our future leaders of tomorrow. In the visions of this program and through this programs’ vision they’ll become a reckoning force of power beyond boundaries and without measures. If they trust, look, listen, and learn to see everything placed before them in its entire form, and to that all they have to do is keep their eyes, ears, and mind open and they will learn. All they have to do is use everything they have learned from our program to gain an advantage in life. With the concept of the five (5) P’s, which is our motto and stands for: Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance. Thus, meaning if we Properly Prepare them for the future we can Prevent Poor Performance in their lives--by giving them stepping stones instead of stumbling blocks--and that poor performance is being involved in drugs, guns, robberies, and several other crimes and mishaps and going in and out of jail. So, we are asking you, the parents and community, to lend a helping hand in making the J.I.T. Outreach Program a success and impact in giving our children a chance to live an auspicious, propitious, and fortunate future!!

Our main focus is helping these juveniles to seek a better path in life other than that of the streets; but in order to do so; we’ll need the help of those juveniles’ parents. If we show them Love, Life, Loyalty, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding, we believe that we can capture their way of thinking at an early stage in life, we can help mold them into our future Lawyers, Doctors, Teachers, Police Officers, Fire Fighters, Governors, Senators, Contractors, etc. As we all know, it takes a village to raise child, and with the help of the parents and community, J.I.T Outreach Program will become that village. Even though I was once one of those juveniles involved in the street life, drugs and guns, I have made a major turn-around in my life and I am willing to help these juveniles make that same turn-around in life that I made through my experience. By being a positive role-model and being heavily involved with the children and their families to help keep them from making those same mistakes that I made or end up in one or two places that nobody wants to be: Jail or the Graveyard!!

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Programming

Surveys indicated a deficit in specialized programming for youthful offenders. In some cases, programming such as violence interruption or sex offender treatment is not available. In most others, existing programming was designed to respond to these issues as manifested in the typical adult offender and lacked a more developmentally responsive adaptation of the curricula. Although this situation may be driven by the relatively small number of juveniles in most adult facilities, the lack of appropriate programming for youth in adult facilities remains a major shortcoming in the management of these offenders.



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In addition to special management and programming needs, youthful offenders need educational programming that is more structured, thorough, and intensive than that provided in adult institutions. It is important to ensure that facilities are both aware of and adhering to federal mandates to provide regular and special education services to youth in their care. Incarcerated youth are required to receive regular, special, and vocational education services in accordance with the state law for public schools, the rules and regulations of the state board of education, and the regulations of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

All youth should be offered an average of 5.5 hours of daily instruction, 5 days a week, by qualified teachers, in an environment that facilitates learning. Additionally, youth ought to be assigned to grade levels with curricula that are in accordance with their educational level, and they should receive academic credit for their educational achievements. Facilities should offer GED preparation and testing to qualified prison inmates and juveniles confined in jails for at least 6 months. Youth who are in disciplinary isolation or are otherwise unable to attend school for a significant period of time must be provided with a reasonable level of education services.

Federal regulations through IDEA guarantees special education services to juveniles (up to age 21) in adult facilities as a constitutional right. Although there are no national figures on the number of special education
youth who are incarcerated, it is estimated at between 30 and 50 percent require this service. A recent study by Leone and Meisel (2000) on the proportion of special education youth incarcerated in Arizona, Florida, and Maine indicates that between 42 and 60 percent of the juvenile populations are classified as special education. This estimate shows the importance of ensuring that adequate special education services are available to those juveniles who are incarcerated. Proper identification of youth with special education needs, exposure to special education curriculum, and teachers certified as special education instructors should be available to juveniles in adult prisons as well as those in juveniles facilities. Training and technical assistance programs could be developed in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education or the state’s education system.

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