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Breaking Cycles
Catholic Community Services
4660 Portland Road NE, Suite #101
Salem, Oregon
(Hayesville Business Center)
http://www.ccswv.org/breakingcycles.html

Describe your site
Catholic Community Services (CCS) founded in 1938, is dedicated to its mission and values.

• Our Mission: Empowered people
• Our Values: Truth, Justice, Love and Freedom
• Our Vision: Children, families and individuals with the knowledge, ability and desire to take control of their own lives and live responsibly with others in a just society.

Everything we do is rooted in the ideal of creating a forever home for everyone. A forever home is a concept, not a place. It means everyone deserves the opportunity to live responsibly in a safe, nurturing, permanent home and a caring community. We do this through Family Preservation, Family Restoration, Community Homes and Independent Living. Breaking Cycles is part of Independent living; without mentoring and support, youth aging out of foster care or leaving the correctional facilitates will be in trouble within one year. Breaking Cycles day program offers youth at risk help in developing life and social skills, continuing education, finding a job and securing housing. CCS is accredited by the National Council on Accreditation and is a leading proponent of the self-directed care approach and evidence-based practices. The internship will take place at Breaking Cycles, 4660 Portland Road NE, Suite #101, Salem OR 97301. This is located in the Hayesville Business Center.

Describe the scope of the internship
Goals

• To better understand the consequences youth pay for choices they make that are not acceptable, the damage it does to their well-being and the difficulties they face when reentering community after incarceration or detention.
• To learn communication skills to support at-risk youth.
• To be able to recognize youth risk factors, how to build trusting relationships with youth and acquire confidence to guide youth at-risk.

Tasks of the Intern

• The intern will work with the program coordinator to teach life skills and tutor for high school diplomas and GEDs.
• The intern will learn how to write case notes and learn about the management and reporting system for Breaking Cycles.
• The intern will shadow/assist or lead some of the groups using The Prepare Curriculum-Teaching PORSOCIAL Competencies (Arnold Goldstein) and Power Source - Taking Charge of your Life (Bethany Casarjian and Robin Casarjian).
• The intern may lead other life skill groups (i.e., cooking, résumé building, nutrition, ethics in the workplace etc.) The subjects would be determined after identifying the strengths the intern brings to the project.
• The intern will participate in training with Catholic Community Services, which includes Behavioral Management and be trained to follow Rebuilding Children's Lives - A Blueprint for Treatment Foster Parents. This is Boys Town's Innovative Program for the Care and Treatment of Troubled Children in Therapeutic Foster Homes.

Typical day and week

• The week is Monday through Friday, hours 8:00 - 4:30 p.m.
• The intern will work daily with program coordinator to serve youth in all capacities. A generalized scheduled would be:

  8:00 - 9:00 Youth arrival, check in, breakfast reading newspapers.
  9:00 - 10:00 Group is in session, i.e. career club, drug/alcohol prevention, etc.
  10:00 - 12:00 Downtown Learning Center, education on-line and one-on-one skill building.
  12:00 - 1:00 Lunch prepared by youth-skill building.
  1:00 - 2:00 Group, Anger Management
  2:00 - 4:00 Group, Social Skill building - educational movies
  4:00 - 5:00 Case management

• Fridays, often are reserved for field trips or engaging youth in community service.

Who will provide supervision?
Intern will be jointly supervised by Teri Urban and Kimberla Weaver

Kimberla Weaver, Breaking Cycles Program Coordinator

• Education: Associates Degree - Ruthledge College, Kearny Mesa CA
• Experience: Program Manager for St. Vincent de Paul Village San Diego CA. Residential program for 350 customers. Supervisor of four shift supervisors and 15 Residential Specialists.
• Accomplishments: Certificate of Recognition-Employee of the Year 2003 for work with 50-70 teen at risk youth (ages 13-18 yr) in the homeless shelter.
• Trainings: Solution Focused Process and Case Management. Non-violent Intervention, Customer Bill of Rights, Drug Awareness, Poverty Concept and Strategies, OASOTN Eraser.

Teri Urban, Breaking Cycles Program Director

• Education: Bachelors Degree-Linfield College McMinnville OR
• Experience: Program Director LIGHTS Community Learning Centers, Salem-Keizer School District, Project Consultant to Willamette University Public Policy Research Department, Interim Director CASA of Marion County, Manager at Nordstrom Department Stores, Public Relations for local business.
• Accomplishments: Mentor program presentation for US Department of Education-Washington D.C. Recognition of best practices in after-school music program North West Regional Labs, Portland, OR and Wisconsin University. Business PR publications in Autoweek, New York Times, Oregonian, National Trade Magazines.
• Trainings: Cognitive Behavioral Interventions, Offender Assessment, Offender Responsivity, Youthful Offenders - University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute; Culture of Poverty-Ruby Payne; Education Leadership Institute-Salem Area Chamber of Commerce.

Who will provide theological and vocational reflection?
Teri Urban, Kimberla Weaver and Rev. Rod Alexander

Rev. Rod Alexander, Founder, Minister & Director of Transform and Transcend

• Education: Master of Divinity -Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO
• Doctorate in Metaphysics - University of Metaphysics, Studio, CA
• Experience: Ordination 1980, served religious organizations in Michigan, Tennessee,
• Colorado and California and as Protestant Chaplain at Oregon State Penitentiary.
• Accomplishments: Author of Relational spirituality: A Rx for Spiritual Vitality, Purpose and
• Power.

What vocational questions might be addresseed?

• What gifts do I have to support youth in crisis?
• Am I able to be present with youth in their problems rather then solving them?
• Can I work in a team or am I an independent worker?
• Can I embrace empathy for the least among us?
• How do I want to serve others? i.e. church, social service, nonprofit etc.

What gifts, skills and experience would you seek in an intern?

• Compassionate about helping youth to make better decisions and turn their life around
• Forgiving; someone that can assist youth to make positive contributions after serving time for their mistakes, knowing that people can and do change..
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Logistics
Driving - Flexible, we would like them to be able to drive youth to other programs.
Housing - Yes, possibly in our ILP housing on Center Street.
When would the internship begin and end? (10-weeks) - Flexible

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