5.1a Rehabilitation / education

1. HAMPDEN CO. CORRECTION CENTER
     4-Phase Programming Plan 
     See Programs at http://www.hcsdmass.org
     also see page 9 at http://www.internationalcure.org/newsletters/11-Winter08.pdf

2. REBUILDING BELIZE CENTRAL PRISON
    See page 90 at http://www.internationalcure.org/pdfs/DignityIndividual_Complete_May14_08.pdf

3. PETER YOUNG HOUSING INDUSTRY TREATMENT PROGRAM
    See page 2 at http://www.internationalcure.org/newsletters/11-Winter08.pdf

4. Columbia business Training
    See "What Works" on page 3 at http://www.internationalcure.org/newsletters/7-Jan08.pdf 

   
5. EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
    In the following sources, search for and collect free, online courses whose content and/or mode of presentation are
    well-suited to persons living in detention centers.

A. The Khan Academy
     The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
     Browse 1800+ videos by topic: Math. Science, Humanities.  http://www.khanacademy.org/#

B.  K-12 Educational Resources

        a) at Curriki:

http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials.  The online community gives teachers, students and parents universal access to a wealth of peer-reviewed K-12 curricula, and powerful online collaboration tools (thousands of course sessions and considerable animation/simulation).

e.g. Literacy training. See http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_Athabasca/AthabascaUniversityESLCourse?bc  produced by
the Athabasca University in Canada. It is designed as an “English as Second Language” (ESL) course. It has 13 units, and a total of 89 lessons that are well done and highly usable. Most lessons have 1-3 exercises.

Collect your own list of resources, and join a worldwide group in collecting resources, for teachers in detention centers.

b) at iTunes U:

   First go to Stanford Univ. on  iTunes U.  http://itunes.stanford.edu/index.html
   Then for K-12, click "iTunes U" at top of page
   and then find and click "K-12" on right.

      - video or text courses from 21 high schools.

   C. College Educational Resources

a) at YouTube

__See a 10 minute video "Education Reduces Recidivism," that has samples of on-line college education,
    on  YouTube    (double-click "YouTube" on left).

b) at iTunes U

e.g. Stanford Univ.
   Stanford Univ. videos  on  iTunes U.  http://itunes.stanford.edu/index.html
   20 courses; many lessons on video, others audio or text.
      * Click “open Stanford on iTunes U” (upper right);
      * click “see all” in upper right of “Stanford courses;”     

Then for over 180 other colleges, click "iTunes U" at top of page
    Find and click "Universities and Colleges" on right.

c) at OpenCourseware

* Find OpenCourseWare Consortium colleges in many countries, including Spain, France, Taiwan, and  
   Japan.  See  http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ 
     (click “members” in upper bar).

 *  Find OpenCourseWare Consortium courses  See
     http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ 
     (click “find courses,” upper  right).

D.   Downloading Courseware  

See instructions at http://www.bestweb.net/~cureny/downloads.PDF 

6. SUPPLEMENTARY VIDEOS

    a) Diverse topics including Science, Art, and Literature: Thirteen/Video

    b) The Reverence movement collection of videos:  http://www.godblessthewholeworld.org/