CRIM 3090 Juvenile Program Assessment · Write a 3- 4 FULL page APA paper on a community juvenile program · It can be any program focusing on interventions for juveniles (Have to focus on juvenile programs) · The paper must include a APA cover page and reference page (not included in your page count) What should my paper include? · The program description · Tell me the name of the program and location · What the program is trying to accomplish · Is it and intervention program pre or post delinquent behavior · How it tries to bring about change · Is the program like a “scarred straight” program? or is it classes to deal with anger? or is it therapy? · Program expectations · What does the program feel they will accomplish, what are their goals? · Who attends the programs? · How people get involved/ success stories · Gaps in programs · Tell me about an area that you feel the program lacks in. For example, the groups should be homogenous when it comes to gender · Possible solutions · Suggest how the program can fill the gap. Zhao 1 Running head: YOUTHBUILD OFFENDER PROGRAM Zhao 2 YOUTHBUILD OFFENDER PROGRAM YOUTHBUILD OFFENDER PROGRAM Angus Zhao California State University of Los Angeles April 11, 2019 YOUTHBUILD OFFENDER PROGRAM One juvenile program that focuses on interventions for juveniles is the YouthBuild offender program which is across states in the US. The program was put in place targeting low-income youths between the ages of 16-24 who had been previously convicted of a crime (National Institute of Social Justice 2018). Following many reported cases of young people in the US engaging in petty crimes to be heard or pass a point, YouthBuild seeks to accomplish goals that help the youth become productive members of society. This is by ensuring that they acquire the necessary skills that will help them land a suitable job. It also aims to ensure that the youth complete school by earning diplomas that will suffice in seeking employment opportunities. Getting jobs or being in school for the young people ensures that they are not involved in criminal activities which could send them to juvenile centers. Securing jobs helps the young people have a stable life which does not allow them to seek criminal alternatives to make ends meet. The YouthBuild program is a post delinquent program that helps youth who were previously convicted of a crime and are likely to be remedied by instilling good behavior in them. The court refers the delinquents to this program as a diversion to avoid putting them behind bars or after the delinquents have completed their jail term and the correctional facilities feel that the young person has room to change. The offender program tries to bring about change by ensuring that the people sent to the center to enroll in learning programs, therefore create a platform for the delinquents attains a diploma. The platform also seeks to prepare the trainees for the job market by equipping t.

1. CRIM 3090
Juvenile Program Assessment
· Write a 3- 4 FULL page APA paper on a community juvenile
program
· It can be any program focusing on interventions for juveniles
(Have to focus on juvenile programs)
· The paper must include a APA cover page and reference page
(not included in your page count)
What should my paper include?
· The program description
· Tell me the name of the program and location
· What the program is trying to accomplish
· Is it and intervention program pre or post delinquent behavior
· How it tries to bring about change
· Is the program like a “scarred straight” program? or is it
classes to deal with anger? or is it therapy?
· Program expectations
· What does the program feel they will accomplish, what are
their goals?
· Who attends the programs?
· How people get involved/ success stories
· Gaps in programs
· Tell me about an area that you feel the program lacks in. For
example, the groups should be homogenous when it comes to
gender
· Possible solutions
· Suggest how the program can fill the gap.
Zhao 1
Running head: YOUTHBUILD OFFENDER PROGRAM

2. Zhao 2
YOUTHBUILD OFFENDER PROGRAM
YOUTHBUILD OFFENDER PROGRAM
Angus Zhao
California State University of Los Angeles
April 11, 2019
YOUTHBUILD OFFENDER PROGRAM
One juvenile program that focuses on interventions for juveniles
is the YouthBuild offender program which is across states in the
US. The program was put in place targeting low-income youths
between the ages of 16-24 who had been previously convicted
of a crime (National Institute of Social Justice 2018). Following
many reported cases of young people in the US engaging in
petty crimes to be heard or pass a point, YouthBuild seeks to
accomplish goals that help the youth become productive
members of society. This is by ensuring that they acquire the
necessary skills that will help them land a suitable job. It also
aims to ensure that the youth complete school by earning
diplomas that will suffice in seeking employment opportunities.
Getting jobs or being in school for the young people ensures
that they are not involved in criminal activities which could
send them to juvenile centers. Securing jobs helps the young

3. people have a stable life which does not allow them to seek
criminal alternatives to make ends meet.
The YouthBuild program is a post delinquent program that helps
youth who were previously convicted of a crime and are likely
to be remedied by instilling good behavior in them. The court
refers the delinquents to this program as a diversion to avoid
putting them behind bars or after the delinquents have
completed their jail term and the correctional facilities feel that
the young person has room to change. The offender program
tries to bring about change by ensuring that the people sent to
the center to enroll in learning programs, therefore create a
platform for the delinquents attains a diploma. The platform
also seeks to prepare the trainees for the job market by
equipping them with various skills that are crucial to getting
employment. The construction skills come in handy because
most of the people enrolled in the program come from low-
income families that have no decent homes. They can go back to
their community and help improve the houses that they live in
and make equipment that can assist in the household.
The program brings in qualified people educate the youth on
what it takes to land a good job and the way they are supposed
to conduct themselves when they are called for an interview.
The same qualified people include high school teachers who
could offer lessons to ensure the delinquents get their diplomas
and GED. The goal of YouthBuild is to help as many youths as
possible who have been convicted change their ways by
showing them that a life of crime is not good and non-
rewarding. The people who attend the program are delinquents
who have committed crimes that do not amount to capital
punishment because such crimes can be remedied and avoided
when the youth are taught on the disadvantages of the same
(National Institute of Social Justice 2018). There are vocational
training activities offered once a week or twice to help the
youth get the necessary skills that may be of help to them such
as how to construct affordable housing facilities.
Various success stories and milestones have been recorded

4. where the young people who have been to the program get jobs
or go back to school to get their GED and diplomas. They get to
encourage the other young people who could be engaged in
criminal behavior to join the program so that their lives could
also change. The young people appreciate the program because
without it they would not have changed and would have reverted
to committing the crimes once they are released from prison.
The central gap in the program that could be addressed is the
group of people that are taken into the program to help them
change their ways. YouthBuild has been taking in many girls
compared to the boys which raise the question of fairness in
gender. The program is scarred straight and some form of
therapy to the young people because the skills help the girls and
boys keep away from committing the crimes that could land
them into jail again. The vocational training is some form of
therapy to the delinquents as they will have something to do and
think about instead of thinking of committing crimes in the
community. The program should aim to take the same numbers
of girls as well as boys because all of them could use the help
that would be given to them.
Boys are less likely to change when they are released from
prison because they might have the urge to take revenge against
the people who sent them to jail in the first place. The program
could be taking more girls in because the people who run it feel
that the girls are likely to change and do what the instructors
tell them to do. The difficulty in making boys follow
instructions could be the reason that the program has not
enrolled as many boys as girls. However, that could be a
problem because it is stereotyping the boys as there are boys
who could not be hard headed and would be open to receiving
the vocational training offered. The possible solution to this
issue of imbalance in the numbers that they take at YouthBuild
is to enroll the same number of boys and girls so that there are
enough girls as well as boys who are being reformed to go back
into the society.
It is essential to have people who are qualified and know how to

5. interact with juveniles work in programs such as YouthBuild.
The people who receive delinquents at the program know that
juveniles are vulnerable beings who need to be handled with
care and cannot be approached the same way as adults.
Juveniles have rights that extend to them even once they have
been sentenced by the court(Cox, Allen, & Hanser, 2017).
Enrolling in helpful programs is also a right which ensures that
the delinquents get to acquire skills that help them earn a
diploma, GED or even get a job that could help sustain their
lives when they are back in the society.
YouthBuild can ask the courts that sent delinquents to them to
ensure that the numbers are balanced so that they can assist the
same number of girls and boys to be reformed members of the
society. The program has increased the likelihood of the youth
getting high school diplomas, GED and training certificates
which can help them in the employment world. It can place
adverts that are seeking to take in young people with equal
numbers in boys and girls to ensure that there is a gender
balance. One cannot simply choose to help girls more than boys
by explaining that girls need more help and vice versa. Young
people from both genders have been involved in drugs and
criminal behavior which means that they all need help in equal
measure and YouthBuild is that place which could help them
turn their lives around. The perception that boys are not likely
to change as much as the girls could be changed by seeing the
numbers that the program has recorded in having reformed
young of both genders get good jobs or end up with a diploma.
Just because some few boys refused to change in the past when
they were enrolled in the program does not mean that others
will not want to change their ways.
In conclusion, YouthBuild will be instrumental in shaping the
lives of the youths, ex-convicts and low-income earning
families. Additionally, the program ensures that society is
educated on ways of building cheap and affordable housing.
Through this, the future prospects of the youth will be brighter
through lowered crime rates. The people who go through this

6. program are more likely to end up getting good jobs which can
help deter them from engaging in criminal activities. It is not
enough to simply send delinquents to any program because in
some cases it may not be instrumental in helping change their
behavior. YouthBuild then acts as a catalyst which ensures
troubled youth is exposed to essential elements that will
reinforce good behavior and instill skills that will enable them
to become productive members of society.
ReferencesCox, S.M. Allen, J.M. & Hanser, J.D. (2017)
Juvenile Justice A Guide to Theory, Policy, andPractice
National Institute of Social Justice (2018). Program
Profile: YouthBuild Offender.
Programhttps://www.crimesolutions.gov/ProgramDetails.aspx?I
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Program Assessment Paper Grading Rubric
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CATEGORY
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7. 5
2
Required Elements
· Cover Page
· At least 3 FULL pages
· Reference page
The paper includes all required elements
(10 points will be given if this category is met)
All but 1 of the required elements are included in the paper.
Several required elements were missing.
Content
· 3 full pages of written work
· Detailed discussion of:
· The program description
· What the program is trying to accomplish
· How it tries to bring about change
· Program expectations
· Who attends the programs
· How people get involved/ success stories
· Gaps in programs
· Possible solutions
All items of importance in the paper are clearly stated and
clearly supported (i.e. Introduce the program, what the program
is trying to accomplish and how it tries to bring about changes,
explain the programs expectations in activities, resources
(funding), who attends the program, how people get involved in
the program, if available what are some success stories, you are
expected to find gaps and offer possible solutions).
4 items of importance in the paper are clearly stated AND

8. support your findings.
3 items of importance in the paper are clearly stated but lack
supportive findings.
Paper did not meet page requirement, OR only 2 important
items were reported, OR items were not properly supported.
Scholarly References
· 4 Scholarly sources used
The paper included 4 primary resources including additional
resources (i.e. more than 5 sources)
The paper included 4-3 primary resources
The paper included 2 primary resources
The paper included 1 or less primary resources
APA
The paper demonstrates exception use of APA rules (i.e. proper
citations, double space, running head, times new roman,
formatting, 0-2 plagiarism percentage)
The paper demonstrates use of APA but has 1-2 APA errors (i.e.
no page numbers, wrong use of citation, 3-5% plagiarism)
The paper demonstrates use of some APA formatting but has 3-4
APA errors (i.e. 6-8% plagiarism)
The paper did not use APA format or exceeded more than 5
APA errors (i.e. errors in title page, reference page, citations,
and more than 9% plagiarism)
Grammar
There are no grammatical/mechanical mistakes in the paper.
There are 1-2 grammatical/mechanical mistakes in the paper.
There are 3-4 grammatical/mechanical mistakes in the paper.
There are more than 4 grammatical/mechanical mistakes in the
paper.
Total Score: ________________/50