The Transformative Justice Project of Pennsylvania, New Jersey & Delaware

Service Components
Below is a detailed description of the services and activities that will be provided by the BRY-AMA
program over a two-year life-cycle.
Literacy and Psycho-Social Assessments
All enrolled youth will be assessed upon admission into the Building Resilient Youth – A
Multidisciplinary Approach (BRY-AMA) program. The assessment helps our professional staff identify
areas of deficiency so that our prevention and intervention activities can be aligned with each individual
student’s needs. The results from the assessments are inserted into each student’s confidential file.
The BRY-AMA assessment will begin with the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, Stimulus Book 2,
to assess each student’s Reading Comprehension, Numerical Operations, Listening Comprehension, and
Spelling skills. This Literacy assessment will help our professional staff identify the grade-level on
which each student is performing, as well as identify key areas in which they may need remedial
assistance. Each assessment will be administered individually in order to provide each student with a
high level of privacy. BRY-AMA professional staff has been trained to both administer the assessment
tool and tabulate results.
BRY-AMA will use a variety of tools to conduct the
Psycho-Social assessment. The Psycho-Social
assessment seeks to identify the psychological and
social status of each participant. It identifies student
goals, living arrangements, peer relationships, social
behaviors, family and personal history, mental health
status, academic background, and employment history.
The following tools are used to obtain the
aforementioned information: Admission Application,
Student Autobiography, School Transcripts, Report
Cards, Attendance Reports, Caregiver Evaluation,
Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Systems
(CASAS), Job Interest Inventory, and Vocational Aptitudes Inventory. These assessments are inserted
into each student’s confidential file.
The Psycho-Social assessments provide us with very important information about each participant.
Participants who belong to a gang, or who use drugs, or who are sexually active, or who are not thriving
in school, will be identified, referred, and/ or serviced appropriately. Many of our present students face
multiple barriers, as they seek to cope with the trauma experienced within their families. Identifying all
barriers is critical for a successful prevention/ intervention.
Weekly Workshops
A battery of workshops will be used from our Ten-Step Rites of Passage NFLEC evidence-based
curriculum. Through the weekly workshops, students will learn the lessons of the Ten-Step Rites of
Passage Program and experience the rituals and ceremonies of growth, maturity, and evolution. All
workshops are designed to be interactive and interesting for participants. Our goal is to equip students
with all of the tools they will need to become positive and productive adults. Workshops, therefore, cover
a wide range of topics from self-esteem, conflict management, discipline, anger management, social
etiquette, and study skills from cooking, ironing, and lodging a complaint with a Public agency.
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