Road to Reading: Working with children
in public schools whom teachers have targeted as at risk
of failure due to poor reading skills
Pathfinders: This project provides mentors/tutors
for those young people transitioning from the juvenile
probation system.
Life’s Skills Laboratory: Providing
classes in social skills as well as literacy.
History Sings: Bringing programs of
history and culture to the public by way of the performing
arts.
Remember When: Utilizing music and drama,
to bring programs of comfort through nostalgia to senior
citizens.
Los Angeles Literacy Project
Unfortunately, due to a number of varying factors in today’s
society, many young people have somehow fallen through
the educational cracks and find themselves in a situation
where they are unable to read at grade level. Research
has shown that many of these youths end up in our correctional
facilities. Empirical evidence indicates that one of the
primary factors in criminal behavior is illiteracy. Los
Angeles Literacy Project currently has in place in juvenile
camps a program teaching basic reading skills. This program
also incorporates vocabulary building, spelling and enunciation
skills. Not only is this program successful with English
speaking juveniles, but also has proven to be successful
with juveniles whose primary language is not English.
We have a very positive relationship with the teachers
and the probation officers in the various facilities where
our programs are located and our programs have proven
to have a positive effect on not only the student’s
academic abilities but on their behavior as well.
Setting Goals and Guidelines
This program is designed to help the student develop goals
within their philosophical guidelines. They will learn
how to set short term and long term goals using the guidelines
developed within their philosophical beliefs. This effects
not only their school and career decisions, but their
interpersonal relation-ships as well. The student will
work with calendars for goal setting and other academic
paraphernalia. This program was designed specifically
to empower these young people to:
·articulate their philosophy
·develop personal guidelines within that philosophy,
and
·develop long and short term goals within those
guidelines.
Students will be introduced to the PEACE process which
is a method of analyzing a situation and discuss the various
solutions within predetermined philosophical guidelines.
·P - What is the PROBLEM
·E - What EMOTION does the problem evoke
·A - ANALYZE the situation
·C - CONSIDER the consequences of all alternatives
