Wilder Youth Development & Wayne Halfway House will also partner with Persevere on the program By Kathryn Rickmeyer From TennBEAT For many troubled teens, a sentence to juvie feels like a sentence to fail. Statistically speaking — it is. 80-percent of juvenile offenders end up back behind bars within three years, less than 2-percent ever enroll […]
By BETTY MÁRQUEZ ROSALES and DANIEL J. WILLIS of EdSource In California’s youth justice system, many high schoolers graduate with grade-school reading skills Nearly a third of all assessments given were for grade levels K-6, though not a single student during those five years was below eighth grade. Many teenagers who’ve spent time in California’s juvenile detention
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From Napa Valley Register By AARON MORRISON Associated Press Mar 5, 2023 Updated Apr 10, 2023 CHOWCHILLA — Joseph Sena has spent nearly half of his 27 years in prison for manslaughter. For almost as long, he’s been striving to make himself a better man than when he arrived. He has taken courses in creative
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National Launch Event at SXSW on March 11 Includes Major U.S. Employment Partners Helping to Disrupt the Prison Pipeline Memphis, TN (March 11, 2022) –Persevere, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, has been awarded a grant from Walmart.org. Funding will help Persevere create and build the National Institute for Unlock Potential (UP) capacity. The national institute will
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