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- Title
Preparing Incarcerated Youth for Employment.
- Authors
Weissman, Shel
- Abstract
This article offers a summary of an exploratory approach to provide incarcerated youth with job finding, job keeping, and life coping skills. Curriculum was designed and implemented with the counselor-teacher collaborations. <BR> Over the last several years, increased public attention has been focused on a recognized national problem: the large number of functionally incompetent and illiterate youth in America. Nowhere is this problem more acute than in institutions that incarcerate 14- to 21-year-old youth. In many of these institutions, the ward (inmates) spend much of their time planning their next crime or improving their criminal techniques. Rehabilitation programs rarely affect these wards, much less prepare them for survival on the outside. <BR> The California Youth Authority has long recognized the shortcomings of its programs. A follow-up study of wards (Carvel, 1977) indicated that two out of three had remained employed less than 60 days on the job because they had either poor interpersonal skills or poor communication skills. As a result of the research and subsequent studies, a preliminary experimental project was developed to (a) design a series of curriculum modules for teachers to use with wards in preparing them for job finding, job keeping, and life coping skills; (b) train a team of supervisors and teachers to implement the modules using career counseling techniques; and (c) develop strategies for institutionalizing the program. The purpose of this article is to introduce the program, list the initial results, and discuss future considerations.
- Subjects
UNITED States; YOUTH; TEACHER participation in educational counseling; PERSONALITY development; TEACHER-counselor relationships; INTERPERSONAL relations &; culture
- Publication
Journal of Counseling & Development, 1985, Vol 63, Issue 8, p524
- ISSN
0748-9633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.1556-6676.1985.tb02752.x