SERVICES
What we offer
Night Sports
In partnership with the Eugene KidSports, Night Sports (NS) is a primary setting for JAM mentor/mentee engagement. Night Sports mission is to encourage healthy life choices for youth and emerging adults through the context of pro-social, late evening activities. Night Sports is designed to get adolescents off the streets and into a social environment as a means to connect them with both resources and mentorship. Our commitment to a trauma-informed, harm reduction approach means that we recognize that adverse childhood experiences can be ameliorated through the development of positive outlets for youth and with the support of caring adults.
Mentorship
It is vital that youth have someone in their lives that can relate to their experience and can take the time to see and address their needs. The JAM mentorship program aims to build trusting relationships that help youth on their path of self-discovery.
Speaking engagements
JAM mentors have presented at the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and Heidelberg University. Primary topics include experiences with trauma, delinquency, gangs, drug use, peer approval, social isolation, neighborhood environments, youth brain development, school to prison pipeline, criminality, incarceration, and reentry.
Group services
JAM offers Restorative Justice (RJ) services designed to address trauma, accountability, and identity. JAM maintains that hurt people, hurt people and it is therefore vital that offenders develop empathy through a felt connection/understanding of the person-to-person consequences of crime.
Fundraising, advocacy, and juvenile delinquency forums
We share our narrative, model, and endorsement to obtain support for services seeking to reduce the opportunity gap. We also speak to policy makers and community leaders to advocate for thoughtful juvenile justice policy; our personal narratives are instrumental in terms of educating and encouraging action. JAM maintains the young people are too often reduced to their actions without consideration of the context to their actions. JAM seeks to change the culture of criminalization by providing narrative as to why youth become delinquent.
