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
THANK YOU FOR LEARNING ABOUT FLY!
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% Female49% 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
Theoretical Foundation
Build Assets
Change Behavior
Need
Assets: Youth need at least 31 of
the 41 developmental assets to thrive: Juvenile Justice youth only have
14.7 assets
Crime: 237,000 youth arrested in
CA each year; 6,240 youth on probation each Santa Clara and San Mateo
Counties
COST: CA spends $1 billion on
Juvenile Justice annually;50-80% of incarcerated youth
are re-arrested; local juvenile hall costs $283 a night
per youth, $32 million spent
annually.
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Programmatic Approach*
Long Term Outcomes ***
Intermediate Outcomes **
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* 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.
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Youth transform from “juvenile delinquents”
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80% report change in problematic behavior
80% report an increase in developmental assets
Head (Intellect for the work)
Heart (Love for the clients)
An increase in number of people committed
to and capable of supporting JJ youth80% of clients like FLY services
80% of clients report staff/ vol. positive role models
Solutions oriented
Customer service
Leadership roles in collaboratives
Focus on quality and accountability
System change from inside out
Local juvenile justice systems provide more effective and humane
services
***FLY does not hold itself directly
accountable for long-term outcomes
Asked by system to help with system change
Probation fills our programs
Invited to tables of Juvenile Justice reform
**FLY holds itself directly accountable
80% report they have an increased desire to change
All programs drive to and measure all 3 outcomes
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Frontal Lobes: Reasoning that tempers emotions is not fully formed until age 25.
Theoretical Foundation
(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
It is not too late for our youth.
Law Program Leadership Training Program
Free and Educated Youth
12-week CBT Legal Education to inspire change
Yearlong individualized service addressing criminogenic needs and group mentoring
No new offenses and high school diploma/GED attainment
Core Program: Law + Leadership
Target Population: Moderate-High Risk 15-18 year-old Youth
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
OutcomesLaw 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 12-15 months•Mentor-mentee monthly events to increase pro-social skills and client efficacy•FY 2014-15: Supporting 150 matches
Additional FLY ProgramsMiddle 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
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2,000 $13,000
$44,000
$190,000
The Cost of FLY Programs vs. If we do not intervene, the long term costs of incarceration
FLY’s Services: 3 months= ~$2,000 1 year: ~$13,000Incarceration: 3 months= ~$44,000 1 year: ~$190,000
FY2013-14 vs. FY2014-15 Overview: Expenses
Budgeted ExpensesFY2013-14 vs. FY2014-15
$ 000’s7%7%
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• Fully loaded budget = $4.532M
• 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.
FLY’s Impact on Local Policy
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 learnNo one seemed to teach
Whenever we wanted to learnSome laughed at our speech
Whenever we needed to learnFew even try
When we needed to learnWe turned to FLY.”
(FLY Youth)
www.flyprogram.org
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