NCJ Number
137442
Date Published
1984
Length
168 pages
Annotation
Project New Pride is a community-based, comprehensive program in Denver of integrated services for serious, multiple delinquent offenders.
Abstract
The project's specific target group involves adjudicated youth from 14 to 17 years of age who have at least two prior sustained offenses for serious misdemeanors and/or felonies with an additional sustained offense at the time of referral. These youth are generally regarded as hardcore intractable cases for which incarceration would have been the only practical answer. Major objectives of Project New Pride are: (1) increased school achievement, remediation of learning disabilities, employment, and improved social functioning; (2) reduction in the incarceration of youth adjudicated for criminal offenses; (3) reduction in arrests; and (4) institutionalization of comprehensive and integrated community-based treatment services for serious juvenile offenders through the redirection of State and local resources into more cost-effective, community-based treatment services. A central concept of Project New Pride is its wholistic approach to working with delinquent youth. The project's primary program components include intensive supervision, diagnostic assessment, alternative education, school reintegration and maintenance, and employment. An attempt is made to individualize services to meet the specific and unique needs of every client. A detailed discussion of intensive supervision, diagnostic service, employment, school reintegration, and alternative education components of Project New Pride is presented. 36 figures