The District’s NPR affiliate ran a feature story, Entering Adulthood When You’re Locked Up, about a youth in the juvenile justice system and the relationship he forged with his mentor to help him mature. Now Marquis, the subject of the story, is a peer mentor to “pay it forward.”
Click the link to listen to the story by Jacob Fenston or read the text of his story below.
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(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – District youth participating in community-based support services displayed gains in program enrollment, engagement, retention, and completion during the second quarter (January-March) of the 2012 fiscal year, according to performance results announced today by the D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS).
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – As part of the “DC One Community for All” initiative, ten (10) collaborating District of Columbia government agencies today released an informational summary of their goals, milestones, and steps taken by each agency during Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 to ensure that individuals with disabilities living in institutional settings – or at ri
The DYRS Anchored in Strength is a support group for Parents, Guardians, and Care Givers that provides an emotionally safe venue for participants to draw on the strength of each other as they share thoughts, feelings, challenges, and triumphs about their youth’s involvement in the justice system.
Weekly Music Academy Program at the MLK AC.
Weekly Music Academy Program at the MLK AC.
