Sentences with phrase «visited juvenile detention»

Rodriguez says she cooked meals, purchased winter coats, helped parents fill out job applications, visited juvenile detention centers, attended funerals.

Start locally - helping out an elderly neighbor with some chores, volunteering at a rescue shelter, helping out the neighborhood school, being involved in a kids program at the local park, helping out at a local hospital, visiting a juvenile detention center on a regular basis.

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The state gave its juvenile detention officers a pay raise, set aside some money for physical improvements, including plumbing upgrades, bought new surveillance cameras and allowed lawmakers to visit whenever they want.

After my first visit to the juvenile detention center, its director, John Day, had the kids send me notes of thanks.

Carlton Ashby: They Are All Our Children Any impact I have had on the lives of kids I visit in juvenile detention centers is overshadowed by the impact they have had on mine.

Unlike service animals that help people with physical or mental difficulties, therapy animals visit a range of places, from convalescent homes and hospitals to juvenile detention centers and mental health centers.

As a teenager, I was put into a juvenile detention center for throwing barrels at workmen on a builders site and trying to shoot dogs that attacked me at a mansion visit with the school.

Mr. Myers, an illustrator, said his visits to schools and juvenile detention centers made him realize that children needed to realize that their own lives could give them models of success beyond what they find in the lyrics and videos of so much popular music.