TESS - Role Model Schools Pt. 5
TOWARDS ESTABLISHING A SAFER SOCIETY, INC.
NONPROFIT CORPORATION
ROLE MODEL SCHOOLS OR LIFE ENHANCEMENT CENTERS PROGRAM
ABSTRACT
NEED FOR THE PROJECT
A recent
study reported about in the Detroit News has shown that many
students cannot function well in the classroom because they
are sick, hungry, troubled and/or depressed.* This research shows
that 50 percent of adolescents are vulnerable to moderate to high
risk behavior and lack access to health care and counseling. The Bureau
of Substance Abuse, Detroit Health Department, shows that in 1985,
54
percent of teenagers
were involved in drug and/or alcohol use and that 3,792 youth between
the ages of 10 and 16 had contact with the Detroit Police Department
because of violent and non-violent behavior.
PROPOSED PLAN OF OPERATION
TOWARDS ESTABLISHING A SAFER SOCIETY, INC., (TESS) will attempt to
provide its social education program of role model schools or Life
Enhancement Centers nationwide. TESS will accomplish this program
through the provision, supervision, and coordination of crisis, mental
health, and substance abuse counseling. TESS will offer assistance to
the indigent in obtaining employment, food, clothing, and shelter, and
will offer counseling in an attempt to raise the self-esteem of
individuals by creating within them a belief in them. For youth, TESS
will deal with the causes of delinquent behavior and self-limiting
concepts through individual and group counseling, tutoring, and by
offering co-operative arrangements with the business community to give
the participants work experience.
INTENDED
OUTCOME OF THE TESS PROJECT
The TESS project will work toward providing an environment
where learning can take place and will attempt to eliminate disruptions
in the classrooms, drug trafficking, and bullying and name- calling on
the school grounds. The goal of TESS is to offer an environment where
students feel important, equal to others, cared for, and at “home”; a
place where students and parents can share their problems with others
and obtain assistance from them, and thereby lessen the probability of
the use and sale of drugs. TESS aims to offer a safe place where the
confidential disclosures of parents and students will remain
confidential; where support is available to empower parents to be able
to ensure that their children will give priority to their homework, seek
help when needed, and not interfere with the education of other
students. In this environment, students would be able to devote
sufficient time to their school work, learn to accomplish their dreams
and goals, and discover that learning is both fulfilling and fun.
David C. Hakim, J.D., Chairperson
*IlTuming Points: Preparing American Youth for the 21st Century,”
prepared by the Carnegie
Council on Adolescent Development, Task Force on Education of Young
Adolescents, June, i89 as
reported in “Junior Highs in
U.S. Get Falling Grade,” Detroit News, Monday, June 19,
TOWARDS ESTABLISHING A SAFER SOCIETY, INC.
NONPROFIT CORPORATION
ROLE MODEL SCHOOLS OR LIFE ENHANCEMENT
CENTERS PROGRAM
ABSTRACT
NEED FOR THE PROJECT
A recent study reported about in the
Detroit News has shown that many students cannot function well in
the classroom because they are sick, hungry, troubled and/or depressed.*
This research shows that 50 percent of adolescents are vulnerable to
moderate to high risk behavior and lack access to health care and
counseling. The Bureau of Substance Abuse, Detroit Health Department,
shows that in 1985, 54 percent of teenagers were involved in drug and/or
alcohol use and those 3,792 youth between the ages of 10 and 16 had
contact with the Detroit Police Department because of violent and
non-violent behavior.
PROPOSED PLAN
OF OPERATION
TOWARDS ESTABLISHING A SAFER SOCIETY,
INC., (TESS) will attempt to provide its social education program of
role model schools or Life Enhancement Centers nationwide. TESS will
accomplish this program through the provision, supervision, and
coordination of crisis, mental health, and substance abuse counseling.
TESS will offer assistance to the indigent in obtaining employment,
food, clothing, and shelter, and will offer counseling in an attempt to
raise the self-esteem of individuals by creating within them a belief in
them. For youth, TESS will deal with the causes of delinquent behavior
and self-limiting concepts through individual and group counseling,
tutoring, and by offering co-operative arrangements with the business
community to give the participants work experience.
INTENDED OUTCOME OF THE TESS PROJECT
The TESS project will work toward providing an environment where
learning can take place and will attempt to eliminate disruptions in the
classrooms, drug trafficking, and bullying and name- calling on the
school grounds. The goal of TESS is to offer an environment where
students feel important, equal to others, cared for, and at “home”; a
place where students and parents can share their problems with others
and obtain assistance from them, and thereby lessen the probability of
the use and sale of drugs. TESS aims to offer a safe place where the
confidential disclosures of parents and students will remain
confidential; where support is available to empower parents to be able
to ensure that their children will give priority to their homework, seek
help when needed, and not interfere with the education of other
students. In this environment, students would be able to devote
sufficient time to their school work, learn to accomplish their dreams
and goals, and discover that learning is both fulfilling and fun.
David C. Hakim, J.D., Chairperson
*IlTurning Points: Preparing American Youth for the 21st Century,”
prepared by the Carnegie
Council on Adolescent Development, Task Force on Education of Young
Adolescents, June,
1989, as reported in “Junior Highs in U.S. Get Failing Grade,”
Detroit News, Monday, June 19,
1989, p.
lA.