Dallas County Juvenile Justice

Con Esperanza! After School Program

This program provides at-risk and adjudicated youth access to strong character models, educational support, life skills, and family support services within the safety of a year round after school care and tutoring facility so that they will be empowered to become productive, Christian members of society.

Project Reformation Intermediate Sanctions Program

This program is designed to hold juvenile offenders accountable for their actions, promote compliance of probations terms set by the court, and address and modify behavioral issues.

Summer Camp

An intensive 3-phased summer program that provides youth with computer skills, math, reading ethics, and job training skills, exposure to Dallas area resource people and opportunity for rich social, cultural, and spiritual development.

Access to Recovery (ATR) Program

ATR Services are funded through the Texas Department of State Health Services and the Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. This program delivers recovery support and treatment services throughout the community.

City of Grand Prairie Weed & Seed Program

To correct the character of at-risk youth by enforcing moral excellence and introduce practical and productive methods of actions to improve their current condition. Changing troubled teens to terrific teens one at a time!

Job Training through Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement is a nationally recognized program that develops management skills and prepares youth to be effective members of our job force. Participants learn how to prepare resumes, applications, interviewing skills, job etiquette, managing money and balancing checkbooks. Participants even operate their own small business and put the skills they have learned through out the program into action.

SOH Chosen Curricula

Social Responsibility Training (SRT™) Program

The SRT Program impacts how students view themselves, their relationships with others, and their decision making skills. The program is designed to develop a foundation of character while also helping students to build self-respect and learn the rewards that come from making positive choices.

THE PROBLEM:

10.9% OF ALL AMERICAN YOUTH AGES 16-24 WERE HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS IN 2000.

THE SOLUTION:

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY TRAINING (SRT™)

Currently, Services of Hope Entities, Inc. (SOH) has the only certified SRT™ coaches in the state of Texas. SOH has implemented the SRT™ curricula into all of its programs including the Grand Prairie Weed & Seed and the Dallas County Juvenile Justice After School and Intermediate Sanctions Programs.

SOH chose SRT™ curricula as the cornerstone of its programming because it is research-based, bilingual, is written on a 4th grade reading level, and has proven to be an effective school and after-school program. In fact, SRT™ curricula has been so successful it has been adopted, nationally, by the Department of Justice Weed & Seed Program. SRT™ is a successful school and community based prevention program designed to teach high-risk students, parents, and families about decision-making and life skills in a systematic class process that enhances responsibility and acts as a catalyst for behavioral growth.

Components of the program include drug and alcohol education, gang intervention and prevention, social skills, decision-making skills, general life skills, and how to overcome peer pressure.

THE SRT™ MISSION

Provide schools with cost-effective and research-based training, character development and life skill curricula and consulting to reduce dropouts, enhance student academic performance, and prepare students to be contributing members of society.

DID YOU KNOW?

The lifetime cost when one high-risk youth drops out of school is $1.3-$1.5 Million, and is a cost that affects that youth and everyone around him and her.

THE OBJECTIVES

1. Help high-risk youth succeed in school and life.
2. Teach students to solve their own problems.
3. Reduce alcohol/substance abuse and violence.

Outreach Services

The outreach arm of Services of Hope exists to provide social support for the families of youth program participants and those in need of help within the community. Outreach services include seasonal support like Thanksgiving Baskets, Santa's Helpers Christmas Program, and Resurrection Easter Program as well as Emergency Assistance for Rent & Utilities, Life Skills Classes, and distribution of food & clothing.

Homeless Network

Community Service

Community Chess Club