STUDENT INTERN - Group Living Program Description
GROUP LIVING
The group living area is where students live and spend their free time. This area is the responsibility of all staff but primarily that of the Correctional Officers.
When a group of young men live together in a large open barrack type setting certain standards must be maintained. Supervision of students in this area and monitoring their movements is essential at all times to provide security and manage daily activities. Maintaining dormitory cleanliness and teaching good hygiene habits are very important. Also essential is maintaining a healthy positive atmosphere with staff and students so that meaningful attitude changes can take place.
Correctional Officers as well as all staff offer help and guidance through individual and group counseling and also share with students their knowledge of various skilled projects and activities.
WORK CREWS
Students are assigned daily work projects Monday through Friday from 2:30 P.M. to 4:30 P.M. Correctional Officers are responsible for planning and supervising these work projects enabling students to develop good safe work habits.
Some examples of work projects include cutting firewood, working in the camp slabwood industry, community service projects, cleaning of camp buildings, grounds work, mowing lawns, and snow removal.
The work program is oriented toward short meaningful projects where students can develop a feeling of accomplishment and can see the results of his efforts as well as develop better work habits.
RECREATION
The camp's recreational activities are geared to the seasons. During the warm months activities offered include fishing, swimming, snorkeling, softball, outdoor volleyball and flag football. In cold weather downhill skiing, cross country skiing, broomball, and ice fishing are available. A gymnasium open evenings and weekends is equipped for basketball, volleyball, floor hockey, archery and table tennis. There is also a weight room where students work out three times a week, a drawing room, and a woodshop.
Our primary goal is to give the student exposure to activities that they may pursue as constructive hobbies after they leave Thistledew Camp.
POSITION PURPOSE:
To enhance resident programming at MCF-THD through use of interns; to provide exposure for prospective youth workers to a correctional residential setting; and to provide for the opportunity to review potential employee candidates.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES: TASK AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- To help supervise students in the group living area.
- Help supervise students in daily routines including personal hygiene, meals, general housekeeping.
- Help maintain appropriate surveillance through regular counts, scheduled and unscheduled "rounds", supervising and controlling student movement and activities.
- Inform and confront students regarding their positive or negative behavior.
- Understand scoring system and discipline procedures.
- To help supervise work crews enabling students to develop good, safe working habits.
- Help plan meaningful work projects.
- Help teach safety skills.
- Act as an example in the use of safety skills and proper tool usage.
- To help supervise recreational activities that enable students to become involved and use their free time in a positive, constructive way.
- Teach teamwork, creativity, and good sportsmanship.
- Help plan in-camp and out-of-camp activities.
- To help provide counseling and guidance to help students understand program expectations and to help students examine and resolve problem behavior.
- Help determine when, where, and how individual or group counseling should take place.
- Talk with students on a personal level about specific problems.
- Stress positive group interaction and healthy peer relationships.
- Confront students regarding individual behavior problems.
- Determine disciplinary action including minus points and ricks.
- To help maintain open, two-way, oral and written communications with students and staff.
- Give and receive accurate shift reports that include student behavior, security issues, medical concerns, and extraordinary events.
- Review all written daily log entries since last shift worked.
- Write daily log entries documenting student positive and negative behavior.
- Participate in daily staff meetings by offering pertinent information.
- To follow assigned student along with caseworker through complete program and provide on-going counseling, support and direction so that the student receives the maximum benefits from his experience.
- To complete assigned reports on the student so that requirements with referring agencies are met.
- To provide a liaison between the camp and courts, field agents, and referring agencies so that they will have complete awareness of the program, be kept up to date on all matters of importance, and can follow the student's progress.
- To request necessary information from referring agency.
- To request necessary information from other staff members, i.e. school staff, correctional officers.
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