Here’s What People are Saying About Our Program
These excerpted testimonials represent the positive influence that Back on Track is having with its students and in the communities where it provides services.
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Back on Track gave me the only treatment I ever learned anything useful from.”
J. age 15, 2005
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…We all hit a bump in the road at one point or another in our lives…but I would like you to know that Skills for Responsible Thinking is really working for me.…For example, I thought about the short-term benefits of running from the program, and I also thought of the long term consequences. I thought there was a 99% I was going to be arrested and a 1% chance I was not. …I came back and took the chance instead of running away from the problem.”
N. age 16, 2005
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…Back on Track has helped me realize that I have choices. …I didn’t think I had choices before, but now I want to make good choices so that I can go home.”
J., age 15, 2005
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…I work at a local adolescent boy’s group home. Four of our young men are participating in the Skills for Responsible Thinking group. This past weekend, five of our six residents decided to experiment with… a type of cough medicine…similar to LSD. The problem is that there are other ingredients in these pills that can be lethal…”
…Rescue was called. Just prior to the rescue being called, two of the men in the group left to go on ‘free-time’. Well, when the rescue comes, so do the police and fire trucks. It was high drama and quite scary. The two young men who were out (and high from the pills) were afraid to come back. After a bit, with only two police officers left at the house and some coaxing, the two young men returned. They were greeted by the police, and when I went out to meet them, one of them looked at me and said, ‘I really have no idea why I am back here. I do not want to go back to the Youth Center, and I just got my job, I really just wanted to run away.’ I gave them huge kudos for returning and let them know it was the right choice.
…Later, after hours at the hospital, we returned to the group home. I encouraged the boy who was talking earlier about wanting to run to bring the night’s events up in group on Monday. Suddenly, h remembered, ‘Oh yeah!! As we were coming back to the house still debating to run, we were talking about the short-term benefits and the long- term consequences. REALLY!!’
…[I]f these two young men did decide to run away rather than facing their consequences, they most definitely would have landed back in the Youth Center… Keep up the great work!
Edie White, 2005
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Perhaps one of the most valuable additions to the continuum of services (offered by Region I Department of Juvenile Corrections)… is the Skills for Responsible Thinking (SRT) Program. This program is a structured, community-based program for at-risk and delinquent youth targeting antisocial attitudes, values and beliefs. …We encourage the Division of Juvenile Services to… include more cognitive behavioral programs like SRT.”
Corrections Program Assessment Inventory, University of Cincinatti, 2006
