The SAC School serves our community by promoting education, accountability, and positive change for delinquent and truant youth. The SAC school serves over 200 students annually.

Educational Service District 101 operates the SAC School program and promotes educational excellence by delivering essential, cooperative services to students, schools and other learning communities.

Goals

The purpose of the SAC School program is to provide pre-adjudicated, adjudicated, at-risk youth, parole, and truancy students with a well rounded education. Students participating in our program will learn and demonstrate the following:

Confidence as a learner and person
Self-direction as a learner
Concern and respect for others
Problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking skills
Increase knowledge and skills in basic educational subjects
Effective communication skills

Our school is aligned with the Washington Student Learning Goals. Focus on pre-vocational education and restorative justice is an important part of our curriculum. Keeping the youth connected and current with their school is a major focus. Student needs are forefront in our teaching philosophy.

SAC School Program

The Structured Alternative Confinement School (SAC) is operated in the Spokane County Juvenile Justice Building and is a non-residential program. The school provides educational services for court ordered youth and electronic monitored youth. Classroom instruction is provided by two Washington State certified teachers and two Title One instructional assistants. Students, though enrolled for a relatively short period of time, are given a chance to increase their knowledge and skills in basic education. The program also:

Connects youth with an appropriate educational placement within the community
Offers GED pre-testing and instruction towards successful GED completion
Develops meaningful life and employment skills
Connects youth with community resources (i.e. PAYS, YMCA, YWCA)

Benefits

Allows students the opportunity to increase their academic skills and experience success in an educational environment

Youth earn class hours which are converted to school credits at their home school
Allows students to work on lessons/homework forwarded from their school to avoid falling behind
Offers assistance in re-entering a school or GED preparation program
Opportunity to develop positive attitude toward learning
Connect youth with community resources
Encourages service learning projects
Emphasis is placed on teaching to student needs
Small class size

Collaboration

The SAC School works closely with juvenile justice.

Electronic Monitoring
Community Service
Court Commissioners
Aggression Replacement Training
Spokane County Probation
Parole-Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration Region 1
Detention Facility

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