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9/1/14
Volume 1, Issue 1
JUVENILE HALL!
October, 2014
Marinello/ Youth Build
We have had two visitors to TMS to show our
students some of the possibilities they have
once they leave Juvenile Hall.
Marinello School of Beauty came first. They
gave information regarding their high school
diploma program and how that could lead the
students into the cosmetology or barber
programs.
Youth Build also came to our school. They,
too, offer a diploma program. They also offer
GED pathway. This is an opportunity for
students to finish their schooling while also
Phoenix Portfolio
The PHOENIX portfolio contains student information
gathered during the orientation process that will
hopefully be shared electronically with other schools.
This includes the student’s personal data, credits,
learning style, career interests, test scores, and
future plans. We are piloting the program with Fair
View High School in Chico, and hope to soon have
agreements in place to share with other school
districts.
Open House: Back to Life!
Come Join Us!
October 29th from 3:00 – 5:00 pm come
over to meet with Table Mountain, Juvenile
Hall, and Boys and Girls Club staff! Here is
your opportunity to learn about your
student’s curriculum and daily activities to
support both their mental and physical
growth.
Each entity within Juvenile Hall is working
together to support students and to help
them become better than they were when
they came in!
Writing Exchange
Student work from our Art class with teacher Macy
learning construction skills by building homes
for Habitat for Humanity.
We are looking to bring in more
speakers/presenters in the future to make
sure students know all of their options. If you
have any suggestions please call in!
Some future options are: CCC, Job Corps, and
Alliance for Workforce Development.
This Writing Exchange is a writing program for at risk
youth that started in 2006 and has evolved into an
exchange of writing between several juvenile hall
programs that currently include Lassen, Butte, and
Fresno Juvenile Halls. It was created to display some
of the powerful writing being done by incarcerated
youth. In Butte County each month, students are
given journal topics and asked to write about what is
happening in their lives. They can also write on an
open topic about whatever is on their minds. The
work is collected, edited, and returned the following
week. Students then type their work, making
improvements along the way. Several entries are
handpicked from each pod and posted to the blog
anonymously. The other juvenile hall programs do the
same. Artwork is added that is often completed in
art classes run by Macy Joachim. Finally, students at
each site read and view the material together,
discussing the writing and connecting with others:
www.writeyourtruth.blogspot.com.
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Writing Exchange continued…
Upcoming Events
The writing includes first-person snapshots of abuse,
addiction, homelessness, loss and heartbreak. Many of the
stories detail young people’s descent to rock bottom, hope for
redemption, and frustration at their past failures. It gives
students an opportunity to vent and even purge some of the
difficult events in their lives. The motivation to participate in
the program is very high. Those who would consider
themselves “non-writers” often produce powerful entries.
Students become excited to know people are reading their
writing and that they are being published on the blog (The
blog is hit approximately 600 times per month!). It is not
uncommon for students in the hall to ask when the Writing
Exchange will take place next or to hand in writing at times
they have not even been asked to do so. Table Mt School
students have had their poetry and prose from the exchange
place in local writing contests put on by the Chico News and
Review called Poetry 99 and Fiction 59.
LCAP Committee Meeting
Lincoln Center October 15, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Open House: Back to Life!
October 29th in Visiting 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Site Council
Thursday, October 30th, 12:30 to 2:30 P.M.
CAHSEE Testing
November 4th and 5th. For 11th and 12th
graders only
Honor Roll Students!
Art work from Writers Exchange
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Zach x 17 weeks
Bradley x 6 weeks
Tyler x 5 wks
Jesse x 1 wk
William “Cody” x 1 wk
Gilbert x 5 wks
Nick x 3 wks
Brandon C. x 1 wk
Antonio x 1 wk
Ivory x 1 wk
Brandon M x 3 wks
Eva x 2 wks
Shyanna x 2 wks
Sarah x 1 wk
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAM .
The Live Spot—Oroville’s Youth Center
A wonderful program is waiting for you and your teen!!
This program will assist in building healthy family relationships by assisting parents in learning healthy, positive ways to
manage stress, encourage good behavior and communicate with their children. Teens will learn better ways to handle
peer pressure, speak and listen effectively, stay cool in conflicts and problem solve.
The hope of this program is to change outcomes by changing behaviors by changing beliefs.
Please go to www.butteyouthnow.org/livespot for more information or call 530.538.7124
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Butte County Probation and Juvenile Hall are proud to announce that we
now have our Camp up and running!
Camp Condor is an 8-14 month program housed within Butte County Juvenile Hall. Our Camp emphasizes youth
accountability and achievement. Youth will work through a series of Phases which provide increased
opportunity for reintegration within the community as the youth demonstrate appropriate responses and
positive behavioral achievements. The overall goal of Camp Condor is to help youth realize they have a higher
responsibility to the community as a whole and to learn to hold themselves accountable so that others do not
have to.
The goal for the youth is to begin transitioning back into their community where ultimately they attain the
tools to hold themselves accountable for their successes and failures so that others no longer have to do so
within their community. Youth will participate in their education, Boys & Girls Club programming, Alliance for
Workplace Development, Individual and family counseling, community service projects, evidence based
programming and countless other pro-social activities.
Youth in our Camp are held to six basic tenets of behavior:
Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring and Citizenship.
Butte County Juvenile Hall currently operates 40 detention beds and an additional 20 camp beds within Camp
Condor. Youth within a detention bed receive a myriad of services through Table Mountain School (TMS). TMS
offers a robust high school curriculum with a teacher and paraprofessional in every classroom, a special
education instructor, transitional specialists and on on-site principal. During the past two years 9 students
have received high school diplomas and 20 have received GEDs.
Great News!
Butte County Office of Education recently received a federal ASSETS grant to provide further afterschool
services to all youth in our care. These services include a homework hour along with increased Boys and Girls
Club activities and programming.
It is our goal that every youth in our care leave a stronger, more confident, better person than when they
arrived.
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has
never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among
stones.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre