3. Community Partners San Mateo County Probation Department
“What lies behind us,
and what lies before us,
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
San Mateo County Probation Department
San Mateo County Private Defenders Program
Superior Court of California, San Mateo County Branch, Juvenile Justice Judges
San Mateo County Office of Education
Nonprofit Organization: Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)

4. Influencing Models Preparation Bridge First-Year Support Partnerships
National Youth Employment Coalition: Promoting Postsecondary Success for Court-Involved Youth, 2013
American Youth Policy Forum: Building Postsecondary Pathways for Opportunity Youth, 2015
Berkeley and Stanford Law School: Degrees of Freedom- Expanding Opportunities for Currently and Formerly Incarcerated Californians, 2016
U.S. Department of Education: Reentry Education Model- Promoting Reentry Success Through Continuity of Educational Opportunities, 2017

5. Access, Equity, Achievement
“The engaged voice must never be fixed and absolute but always changing, always evolving in dialogue with a world beyond itself”
- Bell Hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as Means for Freedom
Enriched Preparation
Postsecondary Bridging
First-Year Support

6. Project Change at CSM Students Bridge Support
Population: Court-involved and incarcerated youth in San Mateo County
Location: Juvenile Hall, Camp Kemp, Camp Glenwood, and Gateway Community School
Bridge
College-readiness workshops at juvenile youth facilities
In-person/online college courses in juvenile youth facility (Keys to Success, Sociology, and Writing Workshops ) 2 each semester (Fall, Spring)
Welcome Day on Campus at College of San Mateo
Support
Faculty and staff mentors
One-on-one counseling and curricular pathways
Student-led weekly meetings and events/activities
Jobs on campus

7. Comprehensive Pathways
College courses in juvenile hall
Transition support to campus
First-year support at College of San Mateo

8. Support Services Financial Aid:
Free Tuition on campus and in the juvenile hall
Book stipends and material costs covered
Assistance with financial aid (workshops and one-on-one support)
Academic Support:
Designated counselors with case-load model for Project Change students
SMCOE staff to assist with enrollment and student selection for courses at the juvenile hall
CASA Volunteers in each “Keys to Success” class
Technology:
Computer lab and laptops available for college courses in the juvenile hall
Individual laptops provided to students on campus

9. Student Profile (Access and Equity)
First-time college student: 100%
Enrollment status on campus: Majority part-time or less
Students served 2015/16: 122 students have participated in Project Change Programming
Average class size inside juvenile hall: 25 students for “Keys to Success,” 5-10 for online and writing workshop courses
Persistence 2015/16: 79% of the 28 students enrolled on campus completed one semester or more of courses
Gender: 61% male, 31% female, 8% undisclosed
Age: Range Majority younger than 20
Ethnicity: Representative of the county, majority
Latino(a)

11. 2015/16 Highlights
Students toured UC Berkeley and met with Underground Scholars
Three Project Change students currently serve as Youth Representatives for the San Mateo County Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Commission (JJDCP)
Students attended the Umoja Conference in L.A. and the NCORE Conference in SF
Students spoke on multiple panels in the county to highlight ways to best serve youth in the justice system
Students established their own club on campus
Students hosted a screening of the debut documentary about the justice system, “They Call Us Monsters” in SF

13. Awards, Reports, and County Impact
Project Change was honored to receive “Partner Organization of the Year,” from San Mateo County Probation, 2015
Project Change was highlighted as a model program for California in the Youth Law Council report
The Superior Court of California, San Mateo County Court Judges, identify Project Change as a key program for providing educational services to incarcerated youth:

15. Activity First fifteen minutes: Unite
Gather with your county group. Ex: representatives from Alameda County (Probation, Office of Education, and community college). Identify as a group three top goals you have regarding serving incarcerated populations and three top challenges you face.

16. Activity Next fifteen minutes: Mix
Contra Costa and Alameda County Representatives join together. In collaboration with San Mateo County, identify possible solutions and expanded goals based on previous discussion.

17. Activity
Final fifteen minutes: Share out