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National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk“What Incarcerated Youth Say Would Help Them Succeed: Can Extension Play a Role?”
Eric Killian, Randy Brown, and William Evans, Journal of Extension, August 2002
In 2002, the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and the Clark County Division of Family and Youth Services (CCDFYS) conducted a survey to inform the development of community re-entry programming. Juvenile offenders in two Nevada detention facilities completed a survey assessing perceptions of facilities, staff, future programming, and psychosocial variables such as anger management, decision-making, violence, abuse, and gang affiliation. Programming options, brainstormed during focus groups held with youth offenders, consisted of strategies and programs that could help youth become successful upon return to the community. Youth rated job training and counseling with parents inside the facility were two types of helpful in-facility programming. For outside-facility programming, youth rated job training inside the facility and having a safe place from family outside the facility, as the most helpful.