Rational Behavior Training For Juveniles
Sandusky County OH Juvenile Detention Center is six months into a program introducing rational behavior training.
The program is a “complete 180 degrees” from their previous methods, which involved punitive steps such as confining a youth to his room for hours, Director Dale Mitchell said. With the new program, the center reinforcespositive behavior and uses a system of rewards to encourage youth to follow the rules. “It’s easy to focus on the negative,” Mitchell said. “If you focus on the negative, it just gets bigger so we try to catch them doing the good things.”
All of the facility’s 24 residents participate in the program three times a day along with learning regular class curriculum throughout the day … “If you can teach the kids now, why wouldn’t you want to do that, than later see them in the adult system?” Mitchell said.
More in the article at the Sandusky Register.