Goal: Reentry and recidivism reduction challenges posed for youth who are returning to their communities from juvenile residential or correctional facilities.
Funding: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention – Second Chance Act
Setting: Juvenile Justice
Curriculum: Project WITH
Goal: Addressing and mitigating trauma with high-needs youth, families, and communities.
Funding: California Behavioral Health Youth Initiative
Setting: Runaway and Homeless Youths
Curriculum: Mind Matters
Goal: Delinquency prevention, Delinquency intervention, and Delinquency accountability services for youth at risk for delinquency or affected by the correctional system
Funding: Arizona Title II Forumla Grant
Setting: Runaway and homeless youth shelters, Tribal schools, Diversion classes, PRIDE center, AIM Program
Curriculum: Mind Matters
Goal: To diminish occurrences of Substance use/misuse prevention, address Ongoing stress, Truancy prevention, and Violence prevention.
Funding: Governor’s Office of Youth Faith and Families, Drug Free Communities, and Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS).
Setting: School facilities, Aftercare programs, Diversion programs, and Mostly rural locations
Curriculum: Mind Matters
Goal: Improve Relationship skills
Funding: Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP)
Setting: Juvenile Justice Center
Curriculum: Love Notes
Prison Families Aftercare
Goal: Prepare for reentry and family reunification
Funding: National Guard Challenge Program, Private & Church
Setting: Boarding school classroom
Curriculum: Love Notes
Goal: Help Inmates become less emotionally reactive and to decrease anxiety
Funding: Extension Funds
Setting: Jail, Corrections
Curriculum: Mind Matters
Goal: Strengthen connections between incarcerated and their families
Funding: State funds and private donations
Setting: Prisons
Curriculum: Love Notes
Curriculum for Corrections
LOVE NOTES
Ages: 14-24
Topics: Knowing Myself, Expectations, Attraction, Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships, Decision-making, Communication, Pressure Situations, Sexual Decision-Making, Unplanned Pregnancy Through the Eyes of a Child.
Project WITH
Ages: 15-25
Topics: Love And Relationships, Goal Setting, Healthy Connections, Maturity, Waiting and Self-Control
MIND MATTERS
Ages: 12+
Topics: Self-Soothing and Regulating Emotions, Managing Stress Effectively, Developing Empathy, Developing a life of intention, and Building and Using a Support System