Program administered by Arizona State University Youth Justice Lab This will help keep young people on track with their schoolwork while they experience expanded detention in Mojave and Pinal counties in January.
ASU’s student volunteers are in their third semester providing free, high-quality tutoring inside the Maricopa County juvenile detention facility, the assistant professor said. Adam Fine of School of Criminology and Criminal Justicepart of Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. no thanks Tutoring program‘s chief investigator. Tutors are currently helping students in Lake Havasu City and Florence, in addition to Phoenix.
Administered by Arizona State University’s Youth Justice Lab, the program will expand to Mojave and Pinal counties in January to help boys maintain their academic achievements while experiencing incarceration. Photo credit: Blaz Photo/Unsplash
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In Maricopa County, this program is a collaborative effort between the university, the Maricopa County Office of Juvenile Probation, and the teachers of the Maricopa County Area School District. A small Inclusive Design for Equity and Access (IDEA) grant from Watts College funded this program. In recent expansions, the Youth Justice Lab has partnered with the Pinal County Youth Justice Center and the Mohave County Juvenile Detention Facility.
Fine said tutoring gives students experiencing detention a better chance to resume education that many have neglected for some time.
“Boys in camps are often well behind their grades. “A lot of people say, maybe he hasn’t been to school for a year or he hasn’t been to two years. You ask, ‘What grade are you in?’ They tell us the last school year they were in. “
ASU tutor Danna Almeraz Preciado said the program gives her the opportunity to be part of positive change and provides many opportunities to provide educational encouragement and guidance. .
Almeraz Preciado said, “It’s been very rewarding to see that coming on a regular basis and working one-on-one with adolescents has created trust and allowed us to see their progress in their research.” I always look forward to my days as a tutor knowing that deepening my knowledge will help me not only now but also in the future.”
Kevin Malakowski, an education transition specialist for the Maricopa County School Superintendent’s Office, said the tutoring program was “an incredible blessing” for students and teachers.
“Our students have benefited from receiving more direct, one-on-one support, and tutors have been able to expand the reach of our educational programs,” Malakowski said. “They have helped students get credit and get their GED.”
Three students assisted by ASU tutors in the program’s first spring 2022 semester earned General Education Development (GED) certificates, he said.
“This is a community effort to help our students succeed, and we appreciate the tutoring program to help them become part of the community,” said Marakowski.
