What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us Ralph Waldo Emerson San Mateo County Probation Department San Mateo County Private Defenders Program ID: 699429
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Community
Partners
“
What lies behind us,
and
what lies before us,
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson San Mateo County Probation DepartmentSan Mateo County Private Defenders ProgramSuperior Court of California, San Mateo County Branch, Juvenile Justice JudgesSan Mateo County Office of Education Nonprofit Organization: Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)Slide4
Influencing Models
Preparation Bridge First-Year Support Partnerships
National Youth Employment Coalition:
Promoting Postsecondary Success for Court-Involved Youth
,
2013American Youth Policy Forum: Building Postsecondary Pathways for Opportunity Youth, 2015Berkeley and Stanford Law School: Degrees of Freedom-Expanding Opportunities for Currently and Formerly Incarcerated Californians, 2016U.S. Department of Education: Reentry Education Model- Promoting Reentry Success Through Continuity of Educational Opportunities, 2017Slide5
Access, Equity, Achievement
“The engaged voice must never be fixed and absolute but always changing,
always evolving
in dialogue with a world beyond itself
”
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Bell Hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as Means for FreedomEnriched PreparationPostsecondary BridgingFirst-Year SupportSlide6
Project Change at CSMSlide7
Comprehensive PathwaysSlide8
Support Services
Financial Aid:
Free Tuition on campus and in the juvenile hall
Book stipends and material costs covered
Assistance with financial aid (workshops and one-on-one support)
Academic Support:
Designated counselors with case-load model for Project Change studentsSMCOE staff to assist with enrollment and student selection for courses at the juvenile hallCASA Volunteers in each “Keys to Success” classTechnology:Computer lab and laptops available for college courses in the juvenile hallIndividual laptops provided to students on campusSlide9
Student
Profile (Access and Equity)
First-time college student:
100
%
Enrollment
status on campus: Majority part-time or lessStudents served 2015/16: 122 students have participated in Project Change ProgrammingAverage class size inside juvenile hall: 25 students for “Keys to Success,” 5-10 for online and writing workshop coursesPersistence 2015/16: 79% of the 28 students enrolled on campus completed one semester or more of courses Gender: 61% male, 31% female, 8% undisclosedAge: Range-18-24. Majority
younger than 20
Ethnicity:
Representative of the county, majority
Latino(a)Slide10Slide11
2015/16 Highlights
Students
toured UC
Berkeley
and met
with Underground Scholars
Three Project Change students currently serve as Youth Representatives for the San Mateo County Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Commission (JJDCP)Students attended the Umoja Conference in L.A. and the NCORE Conference in SFStudents spoke on multiple panels in the county to highlight ways to best serve youth in the justice system Students established their own club on campusStudents hosted a screening of the debut documentary about the justice system, “They Call Us Monsters” in SFSlide12Slide13
Awards, Reports, and County Impact
Project Change was honored to receive “Partner Organization of the Year,” from San Mateo County
Probation,
2015
Project Change was highlighted as a model program for California in the Youth Law Council
report
http://www.ylc.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/EDUCATIONAL%20INJUSTICE.pdfThe Superior Court of California, San Mateo County Court Judges, identify Project Change as a key program for providing educational services to incarcerated youth: https://www.sanmateocourt.org/documents/grand_jury/2014/juv_education.pdfSlide14Slide15
Activity
First fifteen minutes:
Unite
Gather with your county group. Ex: representatives from Alameda County (Probation, Office of Education, and community college). Identify as a group three top goals you have regarding serving incarcerated populations and three top challenges you face.Slide16
Activity
Next fifteen minutes:
Mix
Contra Costa and Alameda County Representatives join together. In
collaboration with San Mateo County, identify possible solutions and expanded
goals based on previous discussion
.Slide17
Activity
Final fifteen minutes:
Share out