JoAnn Bridges Academy is a residential facility which houses court adjudicated female youth from the ages of 12 – 18 years of age.  The program, six to nine months in length, utilizes a positive peer enhancement approach, progressive level system, emotions management, and practical application of learned alternative thinking and decision making.

PROGRAM COMPONENTS:
·    Positive Peer Enhancement      * Emotions Management       * Beautification classes
·    Seven Thinking Patterns                 * Recreation/Team Building  * Home economics
·    Seven Levels of Intervention       * Individual Ed. planning      * Creative Expression
·    Restitution/Community Service  * Jaguar Club
·    Progressive Level System      * Victim Empathy          *Cognitive Behavior Model
·    Individual Evaluation Process    * Chemical Dependency Education/Prevention
·    Group/Individual Counseling    * Groups (problem solving, educational, focus)

·    Arise Curriculum:  life skills, parenting, child development, self-esteem, networking, employment skills, learning strategies/time management, health & hygiene,  trauma & abuse resolution.
·    Extra-curricular activities – athletics, choir, newspaper, drama club, dance
·    Emphasis on gender specific programming including mentoring, role modeling, and researching the roles of women throughout history and in various cultures.  Gender specific programming utilizes an array of relationships and perceptions to draw a girl into a new style of living while insuring her physical, and emotional needs are being met as she considers and later changes her patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting.

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