Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2001, $210,000)
Project summary for 2001-JG-FX-0003
The Jefferson County Juvenile Justice Center in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in partnership with The Literacy Council of Jefferson County and the Pine Bluff School District will implement a school based mentoring project. Eighty percent (80%) of the targeted youth will be adjudicated youth who are committed to the Juvenile Justice Center and twenty percent (20%) will come from local school districts and from referrals from the Literacy Council of Jefferson County.