PAL Diversion Program

Total program hours: 50-55

• Juvenile is required to spend two hours per day Monday – Thursday at AAC, either attending the boxing/fitness program that is run from 5:30PM-6:30PM, the conditioning program that is run from 6:30PM-7:30PM, or the competition program that is run from 6:30PM-8:30PM. For those who choose to only participate in a one hour class they will be required to spend the remaining hour doing homework, or helping out around the facility.
- Casper Boxing Club’s program is a proven deterrent to negative behavior by youth because of its highly structured focus on self-determination, self-confidence, and self-discipline. Intensive, daily training helps reduce aggression by channeling and using up much of a person’s normal energy. Anger and boxing simply do not mix because, in order to accomplish one’s immediate goals the athlete must be in complete control of both mind and body. People soon learn that anger only clouds the mind at a time when they most need the full use of their faculties.

• Juvenile is required to meet with PAL team weekly to discuss progress, academics, attendance, and current behavior outside of the ACC.
- The purpose of these meetings are to keep an active role in each individual participant’s progress by the PAL team. This keeps the team up to date, and also shows the youth that they care about their progress and growth.

• Juvenile is required to spend three one hour sessions at ACC under the supervision of staff with a local adult member of the community who can personally identity with their current situation, and give advice as to how their negative decisions have effected their life. For example: if the juvenile offence is drug or alcohol related they may be matched with someone from AA or NA, by that organizations staff members.

• Juvenile is required to complete three hours of community service with a local non-profit organization. The location of this service will be determined off of an individual basis and based off of personal interest of the youth themselves.

• In order to successfully complete the PAL diversion program the juvenile offender is required to complete all of the above, and also re-write the initial essay “Who Am I”. At this time the youth and PAL team meet again, to go over the second essay and discuss with the child what they have learned or taken away from their participation.