Transcript Template for FLY

THANK YOU FOR LEARNING
ABOUT
FLY!
What is FLY?
“The name Fresh Lifelines for Youth says it
all. FLY showed me light at the end of the
tunnel, and I didn’t have to die to see it.”
–FLY Client, age 16
We Believe
All our children deserve the chance
to become more than their past
mistakes.
If Only . . .
Why Do We Need FLY?
San Francisco County
Anchor Tenant
San Francisco
Distance from HQ
~45 miles
% of Probation Youth
883/107524 = 0.8%
Incarcerated Youth
477
Average Household Income
$72,947
Poverty Line (Family of 4)
$22,000
% of Households in Poverty
12%
Demographic Representation in
JJ System
69% Male; 31% Female
49% AA; 25% H; 10% W; 1.5% F;
3% PI (Sam); 1% 0
Why Do We Need FLY?
A study of incarcerated youth
shows:
• 91% do not have positive
adult role models
• 83% do not have the
basic life skills to make
healthy choices
• 78% have experienced
significant trauma
Search Institute Study 2002: www.search-institute.org
FLY’s Solution
•Help youth transform from
“juvenile delinquents” into positive
community leaders
•Increase the number of people
committed to and capable of
supporting juvenile justice youth
•Improve local juvenile justice
systems to be effective and humane
FLY’s Theory of Change
COST: CA spends
$1 billion on
Juvenile Justice
annually;50-80%
of incarcerated
youth are rearrested; local
juvenile hall costs
$283 a night per
youth, $32 million
spent annually.
AND
Change
Behavior
YOUTH
(ages 15-18 in juvenile
justice system or at-risk)
STAFF
Crime: 237,000
youth arrested in
CA each year;
6,240 youth on
probation each
Santa Clara and
San Mateo Counties
Build Assets
Programmatic
Approach*
Intermediate
Outcomes **
Law Classes
80% report they have an
increased desire to change
Mentoring
80% report an increase in
developmental assets
Leadership=
Law + Mentoring/ Case
Management + Service
Learning
80% report change in
problematic behavior
Long Term
Outcomes ***
Youth transform from
“juvenile delinquents”
into positive
community leaders
All programs drive to and
measure all 3 outcomes
Head (Intellect for the
work)
80% of clients report staff/
vol. positive role models
Heart (Love for the
clients)
80% of clients like FLY
services
An increase in number
of people committed
to and capable of
supporting JJ youth
Customer service
COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT
Assets: Youth
need at least 31 of
the 41
developmental
assets to thrive:
Juvenile Justice
youth only have
14.7 assets
Theoretical
Foundation
Youth input into program design
Need
Leadership roles in
collaboratives
Probation fills our programs
Solutions oriented
Invited to tables of Juvenile
Justice reform
Focus on quality and
accountability
Asked by system to help
with system change
System change from
inside out
**FLY holds itself
directly accountable
Local juvenile justice
systems provide more
effective and humane
services
***FLY does not hold
itself directly
accountable for longterm outcomes
* All three programs share the following 8 activities: 1) Access to positive role models; 2) education on laws and life; 3) experiential learning;
4) opportunities to lead;5) field trips; 6) positive peer group; 7) recognition of progress; and 8) food.
Theoretical Foundation
It is not too late for our youth. Frontal Lobes: Reasoning
that tempers emotions is not
fully formed until age 25.
(1) Asset Development: A youth can increase their resiliency to risk
(2) Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches: The brain can learn new coping
strategies
(3) Motivational Enhancement Approaches: We can help create conditions
to increase the likelihood of change
(4) Strengths based philosophy: Our youth have positive potential
Core Program: Law + Leadership
Target Population: Moderate-High Risk 15-18 year-old Youth
Law Program
12-week CBT
Legal Education
to inspire change
Leadership Training
Program
Free and Educated
Youth
Yearlong individualized
service addressing
criminogenic needs
and group mentoring
No new offenses
and high school
diploma/GED
attainment
Law Component
• Programs teach youth about the
legal, social, and personal
consequences of crime
• Legal education is used as an
engaging vehicle to build life
skills such as anger
management, problem solving,
and peaceful conflict resolution.
• FY 2014-15: Serving 400 Youth
Leadership Training Component
• For graduates of FLY’s community based law program who:
• Want to transform their lives (URICA)
• Need to transform their lives (OYAS—Risk Scores)
• Do not have the support to help make transformation a reality
• FY 2014-15: Serving 70 Youth
Outcomes
Law Component:
• 84% report that they are less likely to break the
law after being in FLY
•
89% report that they now have hope for their
future
•
91% report that the program has given them
more confidence to deal with negative peer
pressure
Leadership Training Component:
• 87% of youth did not sustain a new offense
during the program year
• 64% of eligible high school seniors graduated
from high school or earned their GED
Additional FLY Programs
Mentor Program:
•Matches youth with a volunteer role
model that is recruited, trained, and
supported by FLY for an average of 1215 months
•Mentor-mentee monthly events to
increase pro-social skills and client
efficacy
•FY 2014-15: Supporting 150 matches
Additional FLY Programs
Middle School GOLD Program:
• Weeklong law course
• Yearlong intensive case management/mentoring to help them focus on their
academics and change their behavior, such that they can successfully
graduate from middle school
• FY 2014-15: Serving 1,000 youth in Law and 30 in Case Management
Aftercare Program:
• In-Custody—Law Course: 10-week interactive CBT-based legal education
curriculum, including weekly 1.5 hour sessions and key experiential
components
• Out-of-Custody—Community Integration: 6 months of individual
intervention, addressing criminogenic factors
• FY 2014-15: Serving 28 youth
Additional FLY Programs
•Parent/community workshops on
juvenile law and asset building
•Project Citizen: Youth focus groups to
analyze and make public policy
recommendations on juvenile justice
policy issues
Cost Effectiveness
The Cost of FLY Programs vs. If we do not intervene,
the long term costs of incarceration
$200,000
$190,000
$150,000
$100,000
$50,000
$44,000
2,000
$13,000
$0
FLY’s Services: 3 months= ~$2,000
Incarceration: 3 months= ~$44,000
1 year: ~$13,000
1 year: ~$190,000
FY2013-14 vs. FY2014-15 Overview: Expenses
Budgeted Expenses
FY2013-14 vs. FY2014-15
$ 000’s
7%
•
Fully loaded budget = $4.532M
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FLY’s Impact on Local Policy
• FLY youth conducted research, provided policy
recommendations, and helped Santa Clara County’s
Probation Department improve local juvenile facilities.
• FLY youth researched the teen perception of public
defenders and designed and helped implement new training
protocols.
• FLY staff are active members of numerous local committees
such as: Juvenile detention reform, juvenile justice
commissions, violence prevention, and gang-intervention.
More About FLY
“There is some kind of magic that happens at FLY. They find the
people who can see these troubled and difficult kids as the
jewels that they truly are, people who are so committed that
their case management doesn’t end at 5pm. Working with
these amazing people, FLY kids ignite! Our kids come out of FLY
programs with their souls and their beauty restored.”
-Chief Probation Officer, Santa Clara County, Sheila Mitchell
More About FLY
“FLY is a program that everyone in
the justice field, judges, lawyers,
probation officers, and clients has
confidence in, depends on, and
trusts.”
-John Dahl, Retired Probation Manager
“FLY helps kids not slip off the end of
the page. You catch that gleam in a
kid’s eye, FLY gets a hold of that for
the first time, it treats the youth as
someone different, that they are
special, and they run with it, they feel
significant.”
-Sean Rooney, Probation Manager
More About FLY
“Whenever we wanted to learn
No one seemed to teach
Whenever we wanted to learn
Some laughed at our speech
Whenever we needed to learn
Few even try
When we needed to learn
We turned to FLY.”
(FLY Youth)
www.flyprogram.org