Hope Partnership

This Capstone partners with the Hope Partnership at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility (MYCF) in Woodburn, a facility of the Oregon Youth Authority (OYA).  In partnership with the OYA's Office of Minority Services Multicultural Leadership Program, the HP is designed to increase the rate of success among incarcerated juveniles through the arts, life skills, and the establishment of community support networks.  This summer, Capstone students will assist with the creation of a benefit cd, featuring the music of incarcerated youth.  Additionally, students will develop curriculum related to this project for incarcerated youth, highlighting the life skills and arts components of the project.  This is an eight week Capstone. It is a hybrid course with an online component; we will meet in person once a week. Most of these meetings will occur on the PSU Campus, but we may meet at MYCF in Woodburn several times.  We will encourage and facilitate carpooling from campus.  Community based learning outside of class time will include two Saturday evening meetings (5-7) at MYCF.  Required texts may include: Ayers, William A Kind and Just Parent Beacon Press 1997; Zehr, Howard The Little Book of Restorative Justice Good Books 2002; Loeb, Paul The Impossible Will Take a Little While Basic Books, 2004.  Please contact the instructor upon registration for further information, at debs@pdx.edu.