Class Notes 9/28/16

Ashley Williams came in to talk about the Pathways side of the Bon Air visits

• Schedule: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
  • Will be posted this week
• All residents have been picked and oriented
• Our Role:
  • Purpose:
    • Allow residents to get to know us as students
    • Forming peer to peer mentoring relationship
  • Goal:
    • Non judgemental
    • Form positive relationship for them to know you and you to know them
    • Don’t look at them as a criminal (be aware of their reason for being there but don’t label)
    • Being willing to learn, listen, share, engage, and be non-judgemental
    • Be facilitator to be able to get work/project done and stay on task
• Not allowed to ask why they are in there
• Average age:15-17 (One 14 year old)
  • Pety/Grand Larceny
  • Shootings
  • Assault/Battery
  • Theft
• Degree of trauma some/most of experienced
  • Violence
  • Sexual abuse/harassment
  • Death
  • High levels and frequency
• Trauma experienced before 12 often sticks with you throughout your life
  • Developmental limitations
    • Social skills
    • Brain development
    • Listening/focus
• This work with them will benefit us and them
  • How to trust
  • How to open up
  • How to start/keep conversations
• Question asked to us: Why are you here?
  • Real responses
    • For the class but you’re there to learn more about them and do a project on stories for them
• Students have a great ability to know when people are not being honest/real
  • Always be honest/real with them so they can trust you
  • **Know who you are before you go in**
    • Confidence
    • There to get the job done
    • Be prepared to answer questions honestly
    • Show respect and show that you command respect
    • Don’t pity them
      • Don’t think you’re in there to fix/change them
• Natural/Organic Pairing system

 

• Safety

 

• Always security guards and video cameras
• Report all things/bad incidents to Professor Dolson, Ashley, Security Guard
• No physical contact