Objectives • Requirements • Description • Staff Members

Youth Alternative Intervention Program

The purpose of the Youth Alternative Intervention Program is to develop an alternative intervention program to facilitate the needs of troubled youths, and to establish an effective and efficient remedy to change their pattern of delinquent behavior.

Alternative Solution

It is an alternative to incarceration as well as a preventative measure in an attempt to minimize and weed out juvenile crime and delinquency. The program staff will consist of Police and Fire personnel, professional volunteers, parents, citizens and college interns who have volunteered their time and services to the program.

Overview

The Youth Alternative Intervention Program is a combination of boot camp, big brother / big sister ideology, academics and methods of discipline such as physical training and drill instruction.

Parents will be required to sign their child into the program on Saturdays at 7:45 AM and pickup the child at 3:45 PM. The program is twelve (12) weeks in length and perfect attendance is required.

Objectives

·         To provide an alternative solution for parents who have unsuccessfully sought remedies through the Juvenile Justice System.

·         To minimize the inappropriate or unnecessary use of secure detention.

·         To redirect efforts to responsible strategies.

·         To minimize failure to appear and the incidents of delinquent behavior through mentorship and constructive action.

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Requirements

·         The child must between the ages of 10 and 16.

·         The parent(s) of the child must be a resident of the City of East Point, or the child's crime was committed in the City of East Point.

·         The child must attend a school in the City of East Point.

·         The child can be referred by the Fulton County, GA Department of Family and Children Services or any other Governmental agency.

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Description

Each child participant will be provided a program uniform, and will be evaluated each week by a Program Officer. The Mentorship Program consists of Program Officers assigned to each participant and graduate. The child must satisfactory complete each weeks activities to graduate from the program. Upon graduation the child will receive the following mementos for their accomplishment:

·         Certificate of Achievement

·         Program T-shirt

·         Qualify for membership in the Youth Alternative Mentor Alliance

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