MISSION
The mission of the Competency Development Program (CDP) is to assist, guide, mentor, and supervise adolescents in the development of pro-social, moral reasoning, academic, workforce, and independent living skills to enable them to get a job, develop close healthy personal relationships, and to form positive attachments and bonds to social groups and institutions in order to integrate or re-integrate themselves into the social, public, community, school and family environments.
PURPOSE
It is designed to serve youth involved in the juvenile justice system, removed from school, or who are at risk high for either. It is also designed to assist in positive youth development and to discourage or prevent delinquency or truancy and reduce recidivism in the criminal justice system. The overall purpose is to “help juvenile offenders acquire the knowledge and skills that make it possible for them to live and function productively” and responsibly in a connected and lawful manner in their schools, families, and communities.
This mission and purpose is developed around and driven by information and research from the National Center for Juvenile Justice 2005 Advancing Competency Development: a White Paper for Pennsylvania and the Search Institute research, development and program of Developmental Assets.
FACILITY
The “W” can boast of multi-faceted facilities. The Fitness and Community Center has a Learning Center with a large selection of books to include reference books, 4 computers a competent staff that also provides tutoring support. There is adequate space to provide classrooms for individual or group teaching. All levels of recreation is available to include swimming, volley, basketball, weight training, track, racquetball, cardio vascular exercise and many other recreational and sports outlets. Job training skills can be developed through pool maintenance and control, custodial, grounds, and minor construction and repair. Off site, we operate a sledding and ice skating area that will double as a summer activity building to include biking and possibly a bike club. We offer piano and guitar lessons among our many programs. All of these programs held in or attached to our facilities cover a broad range of expectations listed in the Developmental Assets and the Competency Development Domains.
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