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Eight Week Curriculum

Week 1. See the Situation Clearly

Reviews how emotions can affect our decision-making process and how each youth is a unique individual that can affect the way they perceive situations.

Week 2. Know What You Want

Youth are taught how to make short-range, mid-range and long-range goals and how to develop strategies towards reaching these goals.

Week 3. Expand the Possibilities

Teaches youth to brainstorm ideas about the many possibilities that are out there for them.

Week 4. Evaluate, Decide, & Act

Looks at possibilities and how to evaluate them, then learn to make decisions and carry them through, considering risks, odds, and outcomes.

Week 5. Accountability / Consequences

Examine different types of decisions (harmful, irrevocable, limiting, contingent) and prioritize with discussion of values, incorporating positive and negative consequences.

Week 6. Team Building

Learn the importance of teamwork (respect, trust, compromise, & sharing).

Week 7. Parent's Night

Parents receive resource information while youth prepare an interactive Jump – Start presentation.

Week 8. Community Panel Night

Community representatives demonstrate to the youth how their behavior not only affects themselves, but the entire community.

What is a Mentor?

A MENTOR is an adult volunteer who is willing to be partnered with one juvenile during the eight-week decision-making/life skill-building program held at the York Police Department. A MENTOR must be willing to share a little of him/her self and be willing to listen in a non-judgmental, non-confrontative way. MENTORS are not “Big Brothers/Sisters” or counselors. They are never alone with the youth and use first names only to ensure confidentiality. All program sessions occur in a group setting and are led by officers of the York Police Department or other trained facilitators.

Mentor Responsibilities:

Maintain confidentiality
Assist the youth during class and solicit feedback on lessons
Assist youth in developing goals
Support youth in self-esteem issues
Report to the York Police facilitators, any indications of drug/alcohol abuse, child abuse, sexual abuse, neglect or any other issue the would have a negative effect on the youth.
Assist the youth with program rules and requirements, such as community service, restitution obligations, letters of apology and participation
Agree that all mentoring is conducted on-site and all contact will occur within the Jump-Start sessions.

For More Information Contact

School Resource officer
Jamie R. Rooney
207-363-4444