Youth Environmental Service in Action

By Bilchik, Shay

Book Id: WPLBN0000696202
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Youth Environmental Service in Action
Author:	Bilchik, Shay
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Language:	English
Subject:	Law., Law & economy, Litigation and arbitration
Collections:	Law Library Collection
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Publisher:	Department of Justice


Citation APA MLA Chicago Bilchik, B. S. (n.d.). Youth Environmental Service in Action. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Legal Reference Publication

Excerpt
Foreword: The juvenile justice system is being taxed. With institutions increasingly burdened by the growing number of serious, violent, and chronic offenders, we must provide alternatives for youth involved in delinquent activity? alternatives that incorporate appropriate sanctions while providing youth with necessary services, skills, and opportunities. The Youth Environmental Service (YES) initiative is one such alternative. Created through a partnership between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of the Interior (DOI), YES enhances youth?s skills through work and educational programs on Federal land. A YES program can be designed to intervene at various stages of youth involvement with the system and to prevent at-risk youth from engaging in delinquent acts. Thus, YES offers a considerable degree of flexibility in creating a program suited to the needs of the local community and its youth. Local Federal land managers also benefit from YES enrollees? participation in projects and land maintenance that might not otherwise be completed due to limited staff and resources.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v An Overview of the YES Initiative . . . . . . . The purpose of YES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 History and background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Program characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Benefits of YES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Funding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The purpose of this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 What YES Programs Can Offer . . . . . . . . . 3 Key Elements of the YES Program. . . . . . 5 Developing YES Partnerships: Roles and Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The core partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The Federal Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 A youth service provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 State or local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Forming a working partnership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Other YES partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Steps to Becoming a YES Site . . . . . . . . 11 Implementation Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Target population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Site selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Choosing appropriate work projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Supervision of YES participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Compensation of youth participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Legal concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Program costs and funding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Startup time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Other implementation issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Ways to enhance YES programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18