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Office
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The
Juvenile Justice Commission is responsible for the education
of all juveniles in its custody. Education is a priority
at all of the Commission's institutions. Students attend
classes year round and often advance several grade levels
while in the custody of the Commission. |
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The
JJC employs approximately 350 teachers and other education
staff members who serve approximately 1400 students
daily. Students are between the ages of 14 to 20 and
reside in both residential community centers and secure
facilities. |
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The
goal of the Commission is to rekindle the interest of
pupils in learning with literacy as the foundation of
all educational programming. |
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The
Commission strives to provide appropriate educational
options that meet individual pupil's needs. Most of
the juveniles who enter the Commission come with poor
school attendance records and varying abilities. Each
juvenile is tested and placed in the appropriate classes
depending on his or her skill level. The Commission
works with the students' high schools in order to allow
them to coordinate their curriculum to match the school
district's. This enables juveniles to return to the
school at the same point as their classmates and/or
receive their diploma from their home high school whenever
possible. |
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Educational
staff also focuses on providing services that allow
pupils to reintegrate into community schools or other
placements upon release. |
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The
Commission's Education Department utilizes a variety
of teaching methods to equip juveniles with skills that
will help them to succeed upon release. Distance Learning
Computer and Video Technology enables students to converse
with staff in a learning facility at a distant location.
This new technology enhances the educational choices
for each student to include college credits and/or to
attend a class with his or her local high school. |
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Each
facility offers different vocational opportunities allowing
the residents to gain valuable technical experience
that can help them acquire jobs after their release.
Commonly offered vocational programs include computer
skills, culinary arts, auto mechanics, graphic design,
carpentry and plumbing. The Juvenile Medium Security
Facility has an upholstery program and female juveniles
at Female Secure Care and Intake Facility are offered
cosmetology. The juveniles at the New Jersey Training
School can learn to make eye glasses at the facility's
eye lab that produces all of the eye glasses for juvenile
and adult Residents in the State of New Jersey. The
New Jersey Training School also has a multi-media lab
that teaches videography and video editing as does the
Albert Elias Residential Group Center. |
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Education
Personnel |
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The
Office of Education employs workers in a variety of
educational titles at facilities statewide. For more
information regarding the personnel policies of the
Juvenile Justice Commission and for specific employment
openings, please click here for Human Resources. |
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Resumes
may be submitted to: |
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Office
of Education
New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission
PO Box 107
Trenton, NJ 08625-0107
Fax: 609-631-4760 |
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