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Baxley Wilderness
DannyB II:
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--- Quote from: "DannyB II" ---Like I said it is a place for juvie's to learn a trade, check out a dude by the name of Clem Clausen, freind of mine works there. Dribble, I talk about things I really know about unlike you and your buddy Ursus who think throwing "copies and paste" up on the wall to see if it sticks, is a great past time.
All that that your buddy posted is great, he can copy and post with the best.
Danny
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It's called sourcing. Ya know....backing up what you say with facts? You should try it sometime.
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:shamrock: :shamrock:
If you read my posts you would see that I don't necessarily have to back up, I sit and talk with a good friend who works with these programs I mentioned his name, there is another program called "The Extension" which takes from the same pool when they get closer the their release time.
Like I told Che, I speak when I absolutely know what I am talking about not when I read something on google, then give my opinion.
Anne your ignorance is beginning to become legendary on fornits, keep it up girl. I think I hear whooter calling you, I love when you try to match wits and intellect with him, you are clearly out of your league and you always get mad at him and then start calling him names.
Danny
kirstin:
--- Quote ---If you read my posts you would see that I don't necessarily have to back up, I sit and talk with a good friend who works with these programs I mentioned his name, there is another program called "The Extension" which takes from the same pool when they get closer the their release time. Like I told Che, I speak when I absolutely know what I am talking about not when I read something on google, then give my opinion.
Anne your ignorance is beginning to become legendary of fornits, keep it up girl. I think I hear whooter calling you, I love when you try to match wits and intellect with him, you are clearly out of your league and you always get mad at him and then start calling him names.
Danny
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People Danny will try to poison our minds using communist mind control techniques he deems "therapeutic" for vulnerable juveniles.
*Book of Bill chapter 25 verse 9
Ursus:
--- Quote from: "Che Gookin" ---Hmm, none of this is jiving with the information I have. I'm most interested in their Georgia Wilderness camp, but the entire expanded AMI culture of light boat repairs and shit is of interest as well. Reminds me of outward bound in Florida who went from long term treking with kids on a more or less voluntary basis to adjudicated youth. I remember one of them dying in an Outward bound trek as well.
Once I develop my source more, and it is groovy for me to reveal more information, I'll do so.
Though the whole AMI connection in florida explains some things to me.
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Well... here is the main site for AMIkids' Georgian facilities. Note that they actually mention William Glasser's Reality Therapy in the description:
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WELCOME TO THE GEORGIA WILDERNESS INSTITUTES
Mission
To redirect troubled youth, prevent recidivism and develop responsible, productive citizens through a disciplined learning environment.
Georgia Wilderness Institutes and its programs are part of the Associated Marine Institutes (AMI). AMI is a not-for-profit organization providing rehabilitative services for youth since its inception in 1969.
Georgia Wilderness Institutes is a non profit organization dedicated to helping young offenders in the State of Georgia to become productive citizens. The Georgia Wilderness Institutes operates three facilities, two of which are six month residential programs and one of which is a sixty day program, in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice to provide academics, outdoors and life skills training. The Georgia Wilderness Institutes uses William Glasser's behavior modification philosophy to teach responsibility for ones own choices in life.
YOUTH GUIDANCE · EDUCATION · CHARACTER BUILDING
Ursus:
There are, at present, three facilities which comprise Georgia Wilderness Institute. I believe Baxley is the oldest of them (?20 years):
BWI (Baxley Wilderness Institute)
MGWI (Middle Georgia Wilderness Institute)
SRCP (Savannah River Challenge Program)[/list]
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Baxley Wilderness Institute
Jamie Grover
Executive Director
Baxley Wilderness Institute
1510 Deen's Landing Road
Baxley, Georgia 31513
(912) 367-3383
(912) 267-3407 (fax)
mgwi-ed@mgwi.ami-fl.org
Middle Georgia Wilderness Institute (MGWI) is one of three facilities operated by the Georgia Wilderness Institutes. MGWI is located in Cochran, Georgia and was opened on April 4, 1995. The facility is designed for a capacity of 52 youth. The average length of stay at MGWI is six months, with an additional six months of aftercare once the youth is returned home.
The average cost per day/per case at MGWI is:
* $97 per day for the residential portion
* $27 per day for the aftercare portion
For a total average cost per day of $62. This amounts to a 32% savings when compared to other State institutions for youthful offenders. (The average cost per day for State institutions, including aftercare, is $94).
The school at MGWI has a strong academic component. MGWI has had 25 students graduate, and has a 100% favorable placement for those youths in jobs, school or military service.
Community service is important to the youth at MGWI. The students at MGWI perform thousands of hours of community service each year. Some examples of the types of community service projects include:
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Special Olympics
American Red Cross
Adopt-A-Highway
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Savannah River Challenge Program
Wade Goss
Savannah River Challenge Program
Post Office Box 1683
626 Old River Road
Sylvania, Georgia 30467
(912) 829-5300
(912) 829-5316 (fax)
srcp-ed@srcp.ami-fl.org
The Savannah River Challenge Program (SRCP) is one of three programs the Georgia Wilderness Institutes operates to serve delinquent youth. Georgia Wilderness Institutes is part of the Associated Marine Institutes (AMI), a Florida-based non-profit organization that has been providing outstanding rehabilitative and educational services to youthful offenders for over 30 years. AMI is currently in seven states and has served over 50,000 young people.
The SRCP was created at the request of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). The State's "boot camps" had not been successful, and because of threatened lawsuits, DJJ signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the United States Department of Justice. In contrast to the "boot camp" regimen, the 60-day program at SRCP places its heaviest emphasis on education. The young men attend class 7 days a week. Most of the boys are between the ages of 14 and 18. Minority groups form the largest segment of the student body.
The SRCP is located in Screven County, Georgia, on a 150 acre campus outside Sylvania. SRCP began serving young men on July 1, 2001, in temporary facilities. The permanent buildings were completed in December of 2001. The SRCP reached full enrollment, of 150, in January of 2002. In order to maintain the GWI formula of small groups, the boys are housed in three independent camps of 50 each. The camps are essentially self-contained, with their own school, dormitories, vocational shop, dining room and recreational areas.
Students at SRCP participate in a core curriculum of academics, behavior modification and life skills. Schooling is intense, with much individual instruction and use of computers. Control over the students is maintained, not by fences and razor wire, but by close interaction with staff. GWI believes that this new model is producing an outcome very different from that associated with large, impersonal institutions.
Ursus:
Georgia General Assembly
HR 911 - Georgia Wilderness Institutes; commend
Byrd, Roger (D-170) Lane, Bob (D-146) Barnard, Terry (R-154) Coleman, Terry (D-142)
HC: SC: 01/30/2002 House Read and Adopted
First Reader Summary
A RESOLUTION recognizing and commending the Georgia Wilderness Institutes; and for other purposes.Code Sections Amended
Bill History
Date 01/30/2002
Action House Read and Adopted[/list][/list]
Versions
Current
LC 8 4880/a
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Georgia General Assembly
02 LC 8 4880
House Resolution 911
By: Representatives Byrd of the 170th, Lane of the 146th, Barnard of the 154th and Coleman of the 142nd
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing and commending the Georgia Wilderness Institutes; and for other purposes.
WHEREAS, the Georgia Wilderness Institutes (GWI) provide educational services on a nonprofit basis for at-risk and delinquent youth through a partnership with the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice; and
WHEREAS, GWI seeks to redirect troubled youth through a program that focuses on the completion of high school with continuing education goals and balances the educational core with experiences that instill discipline, respect, and responsibility among youth; and
WHEREAS, GWI operates facilities in Appling, Bleckley, and Screven Counties and serves youth from the entire State of Georgia; and
WHEREAS, students at each of the GWI facilities perform thousands of hours of community service work, making their communities a better place to live and work, and at the same time, learn valuable lessons about giving back to the community; and
WHEREAS, successful redirection of troubled youth requires special emphasis in the areas of prevention and intervention plus the support of the law enforcement agencies, local business and community organizations, the legislature, and other state agencies; and
WHEREAS, the confidence of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice in the program of the Georgia Wilderness Institutes is demonstrated by the number of boys entrusted by the department to its care, growing from 50 boys a year in 1991 to 720 boys at present; and
WHEREAS, the investment of resources in the Georgia Wilderness Institutes has a positive return on our tax dollars as youth who were tax users are converted into taxpayers.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that this body commends the Georgia Wilderness Institutes and urges the support and participation of all to prevent juvenile crime.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the Georgia Wilderness Institutes.
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