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Outcome Objectives
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Counseling Services are conducted at our center based facilities and at locations of our program partners. Services also include educational work shops for the youth by agency staff and program partners on topics that help in prevention and deterrence efforts. Topics include; family planning, self sufficiency, skills development, safely resisting intimidation & pressure, facts about prosecution of minors & fitness hearings to try juveniles as adults in a court of law, and more. |
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Objectives are guides for solutions to problems faced by high risk clients |
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1. Increase awareness on
consequences of targeted behavior
2. Prevent violent confrontations 3. Deterrence from juvenile delinquency 4. Prevention of substance abuse 5. Increase awareness of vulnerability 6. Safely reject intimidation & pressures 7. Increase literacy and computer skills 8. Enhance self image & community pride
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9. Prevent teen parenthood 10. Improvement in school participation 11. Successful completion of probation status 12. Re-entry to regular school from alternative & probation schools 13. Improve hygiene practices 14. Improve communication skills 15. Learn to advocate for ones self 16. Succeed in higher education & world events
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| Evaluation efforts include surveys and assessments to ascertain the attainment of objectives, and our impact on target communities. Based on conclusions, the Board of Directors and administration determine if services are being effective or need changing. | |||
| Other priority outcomes are related to helping decrease the cost of detention of minors at the local and state levels through preventing & deterring adolescents from entering the juvenile justice & prison systems. This also helps alleviate costs to parents for the detention, restitution, and defense in our target area schools. | |||
| Our target schools provide the highest number of free and reduced meals indicating that city wide poverty levels exists highest in our target area schools. | |||