Glen Mills Schools
Glen Mills Schools ( also: Glenn Mills School ) is a U.S. organization for housing and rehabilitation of young offenders near Philadelphia; the village of Glen Mills is one of Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
History
1826 Philadelphia House of Refuge ( " Refuge House Philadelphia " ) was built. Since 1911, the closed facility Glen Mills Schools is called.
In 1975, Cosimo D. Ferrainola the home in which mainly young offenders aged 13 to 18, predominantly African -American origin were. He developed a new concept of social education, psychological and group dynamics, work-related and sports elements. He had to remove the fence, but stressed to the judiciary, that it was still constituted a closed facility. The Fugitive rate was low, in 1979 there were, for example, only one case. Ferrainola expanded the home from 90 to nearly 1,000 places in 2007.
From 2007 to 2012 Garry Ipock headed the home. Since 2013 Randy A. Ireson directs the establishment.
Concept
The concept is aligned to group dynamics. Every day will be two group meetings. Is learned in the context of practical work and projects. There are teachers, educators and in the workshops of vocational teachers.
Students are given personal performance and behavioral feedback regularly, through monthly individual case reports, quarterly summaries and income per payroll year on legally binding reports. The evaluation of work includes large, extensive success rates.
GGI, Guided Group Interaction, there is a concept invented and implemented that uses peer pressure educational. Glen Mills is working with four other special programs to reduce the recidivism rate, they are called:
- Moral Reconation Therapy
- MRI Companion Programming
- Coping with Anger and Parenting
- Family Values and Botvin Life Skills Training.
Costs
2011 the cost of a place in the month $ 3,800. This includes: residential placement of children, use of facilities for treatment at the day and prepare for annual audits.
Careers
In the houses work consultants ( Counselors ) who learned according to GGI a socio-pedagogical, psychological or teacher education. It is worked in a 3 - layer system from 7:30 bis 15:30 clock, then to 23:30, followed by night service. In the workshops and in school work additional trained professional teachers.
Scientific support
In the five years after 1977, the New York Columbia University Professor of Education Howard W. Polsky accompanied the establishment, influenced the design and having worked on the response evaluation; He is known for his " diamond ", a description of typical transition hierarchies.
"Student Union "
Many of the young people working in self-government and entertainment areas, serve the leisure of fellow students and operate two cafeterias.
Sports
Sport is an integral part of the educational concept, since even the most difficult young people can achieve success. The following sports are practiced:
- Football, Cross Country, Golf, Soccer, Basketball
- Wrestling, Indoor Track, Powerlifting, Swimming, Bowling
- Baseball, Volleyball, Roller Hockey, Outdoor Track & Field
- Tennis, Powerlifting and Cycling
Sport can experience success difficult teenagers. Especially in football brought the students of Glen Mills Schools great performances and were allowed to compete in regular leagues. In the last 30 years they won 18 times in national championships. The particular team is called " Battling Bulls ", which is a synonym for an elite group of those young people who have already taken the standards of the house enough and are willing to pass it on to younger and new classmates. Sports consequently forms the character, personality and is an integral part of the house concept.
Reception in Germany
The device was discovered in 1979 by Günther and 1981, first described in a German-language paper. Glen Mills was later in Europe with Boot Camps in conjunction. The strong group pressure is for Western European conditions to inhumane and unpädagogisch. The DJI documented the debate.