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To clarify the job details, I'll be working in Grade 9 at a Youth Assesment center. Most of them have been in and out of school for the below mentioned reasons and have huge gaps in their educations. My job will be to find the gaps with education assesments and to fill them using an IEP schedual, while I support their personal growth and reinforce the work the social workers and counsellors are doing.
The students are transient, meaning after their comprehensive assesment period is over *usually 3 months* they will be moved either back home, to foster care or group home or whatever is deemed most suitable for the individual, by the professionals. So in three months, the grade level(s) I work with may (most likely will) change with the new students who arrive at the center for their assesments.




I GOT THE JOB!!!

I'm so excited.
The job is at The Youth Assesment Center, where I will be working with at risk youth to attain grade level and to assess grade placements and provide educational support. The teens and tweens who are resident at the centre have for the most part come from incarceration, group homes, hospitals, foster homes or from being bounced school to school trying to manage their behavior.
I'll be working with other teachers, social workers and counsellors as well as resident managers to give these youth a chance to build, rebuild or find themselves amongst all the shit that's been heaped on them.
Many of the youth that come through the center have problems that stem from choices their caregivers, guardians or parents have made and are not of their own doing, others are seriously institutionalized youths who know how to play the system and the authority...for them it's been a matter of survival (not always physical survival).
I wrote a post a while back about wanting to be that person who can stand in the gap for kids and help them build resiliance to the boulders life can hurl.
This position puts me in a great place to be doing that.
To be the first teacher that thinks these kids are OK right down inside them, and worth my time and effort. To be someone who c an offer my support and caring and guidance to kids who may not ever have had someone come beside them and say " you CAN do this". Being able to contribute to their becoming citizens of their communities in a posative way.

I start monday. The job comes with full benefits. Monday - Thursday 8:30 - 3:30 and Friday's 8:30 - 12:30.