Adolescent Groups
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Respect Yourself Girls Group
This group address a variety of topics relevant to assisting teen girls to avoid negative influences that have resulted in their involvement with the juvenile justice system. According to the Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy in 2012 gender-responsive programming needs the following components to be effective:
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Man Up Boys Group
This CS group is designed to address the special consideration of the personal skills the clients need to achieve different outcomes. Through the group process youth learn to practice new ways to make good decisions and to generalize the following skills:
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"The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursuing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born male and not be guided toward the value of a man."
Michael Gurian, The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men