Transformative Justice Project Manual

School Contact
TJP-AMA will visit Academic Counselors once per quarter. School visits will be utilized to obtain
Report Cards, Attendance Reports, Transcripts, School Resource lists, School Calendars, Access to
Guidance & Academic Counselors, and to meet with teachers. These visits are designed to facilitate the
participants’ academic success.
Home Visits
TJP-AMA will visit each participants home once per month. Home visits will help program staff
establish positive relationships with parents and help parents reinforce the information presented in the
weekly workshops at home. Past experience has demonstrated a great need for the Home and TJP-AMA
programs to work together. During Home visits, TJP-AMA Program staff will help mediate conflicts in
the home, as well as help enhance relationships between young persons and their parents. These visits will
also offer support for parents.
Community Resources and Field Trips
TJP-AMA personnel will assemble a battery of
Multidisciplinary Youth Services resources.
Program staff will refer students to appropriate
community and county resources. Many of our
youth are unaware of the many resources and
services available to them. TJP-AMA will invite
representatives from community and county
programs to attend weekly meetings to share
information about their programs with youth.
Additionally, we will take students to tour
community and county offices.
Field trips will facilitate recreational learning.
Recreational learning provides fun, relaxation, and cultural exposure to broken students’ view of the
world. The Coalition will provide a minimum of one Field Trip per month. Field Trips will be held the
third Saturday of each month, except for Special Events. All Field Trips will be coordinated with group
home staff, caregivers, and appropriate personnel. Caregivers will be given sufficient notice via fax,
telephone, and mailed correspondence. Field Trips have varied from attending NBA games to passing out
gifts to homeless children during holidays. The Field Trips have been a highlight of our program and
have been both informative and fun for our youth.
Incentives
TJP-AMA will offer a variety of incentives to increase school performance and to reward participation in
the program(s), including but not necessarily limited to the following:
1. The Academic Bowl: the Academic Bowl is an incentive for participants to increase school
performance and to turn in weekly progress reports. The Academic Bowl rewards students on a
point system. Students with the highest point total at the end of the year will win a Grand Prize,
the size and nature of which will depend upon then current resources available for such awards.
Points are awarded based on each student’s weekly progress reports (i.e. - students having greater
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