MEXICO – Students who attended the Bridges to Success alternative education program field trip to the Five Points Correctional Facility in Romulus left there inspired to steer themselves in a more positive direction.
Inmates shared with students about the dangers and consequences of poor choices.
Alexis Centrone (Oswego High School) said she learned to keep her circle small and fill it with people who could help her succeed in life.
She, her classmates, teachers and administrators said the prison’s Youth Assistance Program provided the students with tools to help them make better choices: communication, education, employment, environmental change, family, recreation, religion, responsibility, self-awareness and thinking.
Chalet Dewey-Flint, Bridges school social worker, said both during and after the program, students realized all of those tools were available to them now.
Many students said they wanted make positive changes so they could overcome obstacles and be re-routed to a path of positivity.
Key lessons students took from the visit are: don’t give up on yourself, live a full life and choose school over the streets.
A component of the Center for Instruction, Technology & Innovation, Bridges opened on Dutch Ridge Road in Oswego this fall to help students experience positive social-emotional growth to facilitate re-entry into a less-intensive program.
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