Juvenile Detention

The Detention Program at Donald E. Long is growing to meet a fuller set of needs of the youth serving time there.

The program offers a balanced curricula of regular classes and special topic workshops based on yoga and broad mindfulness practices. The overall aim of the program is to provide a spectrum of real life skills to help the youth profit from their time in detention, and re-integrate with their communities with the greatest chance for long-term success.

Program Objectives

The intention of this program is to share a set of mindfulness-based wellness-for-life skills which create specific positive outcomes in each individual we work with. The practice to date includes, yoga, meditatoin and wellness workshops. We are looking to add non-violent communication (NVC) classes, mindful & creative expression and others.