Mistik North: A Program for Community Youth and Young Offenders (From Self-Sufficiency in Northern Justice Issues, P 291-300, 1992, Curt Taylor Griffiths, ed. -- See NCJ- 141302)

• NCJ Number: 141315
• Author(s): L Mourot; B Watson
• Date Published: 1992
• Length: 10 pages
• Sale Source: Northern Justice Soc
• Publication Type: Program/Project Description
• Language: English
• Country: Canada
• Note: From a workshop at the fifth meeting of the Northern Justice Society held in Sitka, Alaska, April 1991.

Annotation

This paper describes the creation and operation of Mistik North, a Junior Achievement program in Canada that operates in an open-custody facility to provide both young offenders and community youth training in how to operate a business.

Abstract

Junior Achievement Canada is a program generally targeted for high school students who are achievers or high achievers. It is part of an international, nonprofit organization financed by business and individuals. This educational program provides youth with practical business experience that includes insights into the complexity of the profit-and-loss system, business initiatives, productivity, risk-taking, and free enterprise. The Mistik North program, however, involves young offenders who are not high school students and may not have been in school since the sixth or seventh grades. Currently, 12 youths from the open-custody facility and 12 youths from the outside community are involved. The program has guided the participants in setting up a business, forming a board of directors, electing officers, dissolving the business, and disbursing whatever money there is. The program intends to provide the rehabilitative benefits of a cognitive or knowledge base, skills development, and attitudinal objectives. For each of these areas, objectives have been developed by the Junior Achievement Canada Corporation or governing body. Thus far, the participants have worked well together and succeeded in creating a clock-making business. 1 resource reading