KNOWLEDGE OF ORGANIZATION, SYSTEM, RESOURCES, AND PROGRAMS

STARS AND STRIPES PROGRAM FEATURES AND TARGETED BEHAVIORS

SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND INFLUENCES

SKILLS IN GROUP, INDIVIDUAL, AND PROGRAM METHODS AND TECHNIQUES

LEVEL 0. Schedules, Location, Staff

LEVEL 0. Age, Male-Female, Background, and Developmental Characteristics of Residents

LEVEL 0. Resident Roles, Peer Relations, Group Dynamics, and Dorm Life. 

LEVEL 0. Violence Prevention and Intervention Techniques

1        Shift schedules:  week day and week end; Shift Meetings, Records, reports, Logs, Counts

1        Characteristics of Residents at Entry Level; Leaving home and being new, Effects on emotions and behavior

1        Gang Formation in the dorm and institution; maintaining loyalty to home gang

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2        Levels of Maturity and Developmental Stages; Ethnicity, Stages and Gender Relations; Sexual attractions and emotional states and behaviors

2        Identifying Behaviors and Attitudes; Assigning and Forging Informal roles; Territoriality

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3        Characteristics of Personality types of Residents and characteristic interaction between types

3        Reactions to Authority; Dorm Parent rotation, Inconsistency; Similarity to Fragmented Families

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4        Formal, initial Risk Assessment; Expectations of and Dealing with Entry Level Residents with different Characteristics

4        Group size and effects on dynamics; Group programs and projects;  Formal and informal role taking; Dynamics in unstructured and structured groups

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5        Typical problems of entry level residents

5        Relationships, antipathy, bonding, isolation; alliances

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6        Program features dealing with Entry level residents and involvement of higher Stripes

6        Character development in the Stars and Stripes Program

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LEVEL 1. Staff and Resident Rules and Relations between Staff and Residents

LEVEL 1.Overview of Stars and Stripes

LEVEL 1. Inter-gender Relations

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1        Male and female sexual traumas

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2        Socialization toward harmful sexuality

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 LEVEL 2. Basic Knowledge of Programs, Roles, Privileges and Rewards

LEVEL 2.Support Team functions and techniques

LEVEL, 2. Ethnic, Community, Family:  Systems, Customs, and Language

LEVEL 2 Dispute resolution.

1        Criteria, training, and progression in Stars and Stripes

1        Use of records and keeping records

1        Dimensions and Characteristics of Home Communities

1        Peer Counseling

2        Graduated Pro-social, work, and recreation roles and responsibilities

2        Listening and facilitating youth to make own plans and decisions

2        Dimensions and Characteristics of Institution Community

2        Negotiation

3        Structures of role relations, program related settings, setting-evoked situations

3        Criteria and Decision making about promotions in Stars and Stripes

3        Characteristics of Types of Families of Delinquent Types

3        Mediation

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4        Dealing with emotional problems, family problems, and Institution adjustment problems

4        Dorm life and relations of multiple dorm parents with residents

4        Due Process

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5        Community Government

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LEVEL 3. Institution’s Basic Policies:  Personnel and Residents, and non Staff

LEVEL 3. Stripe and Star Progression

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LEVEL 3. Relationships

1        Vertical systems of the institution

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1        Staff developing relationships with residents

2        Horizontal systems

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2        Assisting residents in dealing with relationships

3        Longitudinal systems

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3        Roles and relationships

4        Social systems:  impact of the structure and policies of the institution on interpersonal relations between staff, residents, outside agency staff, visitors, volunteers, and surrounding community

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4        Use of roles and relationships in developing character and behavior

5        Performance systems;  Job descriptions, performance criteria, performance evaluation; impact of inter and intra department positions on one another and on Institution’s community life and objectives

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5        Bonding, Modeling, Guiding, and Changing Youth’s Beliefs, Values, and behavior

6        Institution Mission , goals and objectives; Department, and Staff Goals, Objectives and measures

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7        Effective Committee work for Program Change

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LEVEL 4. Probation, Court, Institutions, Sanctions

LEVEL 4. Pro-social roles, Work Titles, Dorm Community Functions, individual and group rewards, privileges, and costs and demotions

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1.       Crime indexes, risk indexes, differential programs, and program match

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2.       Population flow through the system

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3. Recidivism rates:  causes and methods of reduction

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4.    Probation department resources, Community and agency resources

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5. Communication and cooperation with community, Interdepartmental and interagency resources

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6. Understanding intra-system structures, dynamics and correlative effects

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7. Understanding and adapting to system wide changes, experimenting and giving feedback

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LEVEL 5. Management Systems and Philosophy

LEVEL 5. Program Features

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1.       Participatory Management; empowering

1.       Staff training residents:  to handle resident problems: peer counseling, buddy system, mediation, negotiation, due process; to train and supervise resident work roles, to manage own records for support teams

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2.       Management by Objectives

2.       upper level residents training and certifying beginners, orienting them to rules, procedures, schedules, work responsibilities, and consequences

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3.       Planning and program development and change

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4.       Strategies, barriers, time, timing, task assignment

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5.       Cooperation and Interlocking objectives

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6.       Performance measures, program measures, and program evaluation

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LEVEL 6 Capable of Training Staff and Program Development

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