DISTRICT TEEN COURT TRAINING PROGRAM
The Training Program of the National Teen Courts of America
Is Believed To Be
The Most Advanced, Complete, and Thorough Program Available and Yet
So Simplified, Streamlined, and Effective
That a New District Teen Court Program Can Be Ready
To Hear Its First Cases Within a Two Week Period.
In addition, of course, there is on going training.
Complete and Effective Training Makes This Program
The Most Effective and Sophisticated
Youth Leadership Program Available in its Category
In addition, Training is Provided to Referring Courts
For Judges, Clerks and other Staff Members
Involved in Referring Cases.
The Training is Provided on the Use of District Teen Courts
and the Documents Provided Free of Charge to the Courts
That Are Needed to Refer the Cases to the District Teen Courts
The Training of the Court Staff on the use of the Documents
Takes less than Ten Minutes to Learn
Due to the Ease and Use of the Documents
Plus, an Additional 10 to 20 Minutes is Allowed For Questions
To Be Asked by Court Staff on Such Things as
The History and Use of District Teen Courts
Training of New District Teen Court Personnel
Can be Done by Having the Personnel Attend Training
At The National Headquarters or by Having
Personnel from the National Headquarters Train
Personnel at Local Teen Court Locations
There are Over 100 Excellent Reasons for Using District Teen Courts
Including Providing an Excellent Youth Leadership Program
An Opportunity to Reduce Juvenile Crime in the Area
Reduce Court Time, Backlog, and Court Cost
and More
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PLEASE NOTE
We Apolgize That
There is Only Limited Information Located Here
Regarding Training Methods and Documents
The Reason additional information is not included here is due to
The Fact that the Documents and Training
Must be Properly Used and NOT Misused
As In The Case of One Organization in Texas
That Established a Teen Court After
Duplicating a Number of Our Documents
Without Authorization
Especially After Non-Disclosure Statements were Signed
By "Visitors"
That information would not be used or Disclosed.
In addition,
This Same Organization Again
Duplicated our Documents, as if their own
For Distribution and use by individuals, interested in
Existing or Establishing Other Teen Courts,
That attended a Paid Conference in which
50-100 individuals were said to be in attendance.
The Organization in Question
Did Not receive training in the proper use of our Documents
Nor Did It Realize
That it had copied only a small portion of all our documents.
Some of our Blank Documents and other material had been taken
And to This Day Have Never Been Returned.
In Addition, this Organization in Question
Did Not receive proper training in the use of the full program.
A Newspaper Story in the City of the Organization in Question
Reported that it was established as a Branch of our Organization
When in Fact We Had No Knowledge of its Existence,
Nor Were We Aware That
Our Documents had been Duplicated Without Authorization
It is for this Reason
That We Do Not Disclose Additional Information here
As We Believe that teenagers and youths
Should NOT be Subjected to a Program
In Which its Operators Have Not Undergone Proper Training.
Or have not been interviewed or investigated to make certain that
the lives of our nation's youth are not subjected to possible harm.
Any Organization That Fails to Receive Proper Training
Could be Subjecting Itself to a Possible Lawsuit
Or Subjecting its Youths in its Program to Possible Harm.
In addition, Individuals Making a Feeble Attempt to Process
Teenagers in a Program without Proper Training and Use
Of its Advantages do a diservice to the Teenagers.
Our Studies of various Teen Court Programs
Including the program operated by the
Organization in Question Aforementioned
Have Uncovered What we Believe to be
A Number of violations of Civil rights
of the Teenagers Processed
For these and other Reasons
We are selective and Thorough in our Training Methods
Of the Teenagers and the Adults Paricipating in our Programs.
