“yards: youth achieving resource development skills” by joan lionetti, executive director, trees...

together with

Grant provided by:

The Wolslager Foundation

Youth Landscape Training Program

Youth

Achieving

Resource

Development

Skills

Pima County Juvenile Cour

Community Service Unit CREW

Dave StadlePima County Juvenile Court

Community Service Unit

Joan LionettiExecutive Director

Tucson Clean & Beautiful

YARDS Program Objectives:

• Vocational training - by certified professional arborists & horticulturists.

• Certification of Training in Landscape Techniques and Principles of Desert Landscaping.

• Jobs!!! city and county government, local landscape industry.

Participant Requirements:• Students selected by P.O.’s and S.O.’s.

• Based on:

• assessment

• aptitude

• commitment

Class:• Three per year

• 12 student max

• Saturdays

• Nine weeks

• Four hours per week

• Graduation on the ninth week

Orientation-Stress Management. Tools and Safety

Soil, Plants & Water

Desert Water Harvesting. Job Skills

Design & Planning. Nutrition

Sonoran Desert Plants. Urban Heat Island

Irrigation

Tree Pruning. Sun Protection & Poisonous Critters

College or Vocational Training. Legal Affairs

Tree Climbing & Pruning

Graduation

Certificate of Achievement!

Cake

Program Media CoverageY.A.R.D.S Spring 2012 Class:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnRka0oDLO4

(Media releases required)

Posted on April 16th, 2010.New program provides teens with green job training skills

By Gretel Hakanson

Tucson Green Times – April 2010

Eight Pima County teenagers accepted graduation diplomas on March 13 – the entire class beaming smiles

brighter than a row of sunflowers.

Graduation always brings a budding pride that you made it this far. But this crop of graduates had a lot to smile

about. They were the first class to graduate from a unique program aimed at improving community sustainability

and, at the same time, offering a new path for teens headed down the wrong one.

Dave Stadle (left), community services coordinator for Pima County Juvenile Court and Joan Lionetti (center),

executive director of Tucson Clean & Beautiful with Luis Campos-Lopez, a recent graduate of the new YARDS

program in Tucson. Photo by James Patrick.

Tucson Clean & Beautiful, in partnership with the Pima County Court system, have initiated a formal program to

cultivate green-thumb job training skills in local youth who have gotten into trouble and subsequently wound up in

the court system.

YARDS (Youth Achieving Resource Development Skills) is a nine-week, 34-hour program focused on teaching

landscaping skills, knowledge and practical experience to the teens through classroom and hands-on instruction.

Tucson Green Times

Program Media Coverage

The Wolslager Foundation Grant

Site Visit

2010 /2013 Budget, Income & Expenses

Total income: $69,000

Total expenses: $59,000

Includes: instructors, storage, tools/equipments, supplies,

food, graduation ceremony.

Balance forward 2014: $10,000

In-Kinds

Site Location: $18,200

Instructors: $6,300

Profession Service: $2,700

Administration Cost: $6,900

Summary:

Average cost per session: $6,500

Next 20 years

Y.A.R.D.S will become a model for personal development

and job training for juvenile court systems throughout

the Southwest. We will compile data that the Y.A.R.D.S

program reduces recidivism, reducing the costs of

incarceration and detention, reinforcing productive

citizens.

Program Goals & Improvements

Wolslager Foundation

Questions?

Class of

Winter 2013