A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

1. PROGRAM TITLE: Cooperative Demonstration Program

(Correctional Education)

(CFDA 84.199D)

2. Project Title: Wisconsin Correctional Service

3. Award Number: Vl99D20010

4. Project Director: Janice Brylow

Awardee: Wisconsin Correctional Service

Address: 1004 North 10th Street/TPC

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233

Telephone: (414) 529-5800

FAX: (414) 529-5875

5. Funds By: Federal: FY 1992 $ 195,965

Fiscal Year: Other Federal: $

Non-Federal: FY 1992 $ 65,599

Total Funds: $ 261,564

Federal Funds: 75 percent of total funds

6. Award Period: October 1, 1992 - September 30, 1993

7. Federal Project Carolyn Fuqua, Office of Correctional Ed

Officer: (202) 205-562l

8.Objectives: To provide vocational training and job placements to 270 detained county inmates. To place persons released from the correctional setting into supported employment.

9. Procedures: The project will be managed by a non-profit agency with 15 years experience working inside the local workhouse, known as the House of Correction. The Wisconsin Correctional Service manages the work release center offering training, education and placement services to the unemployed. The demonstration project will train staff in techniques of Cooperative Learning.

10.Outcomes/Results/Products: To improve skills and education of 270 inmates. To evaluate, document, and disseminate the impact of the program model and its components. This also includes publications, presentations and the production of a professional video which describes the process and impact of implementation of a Cooperative Learning model to teach marketable vocational skills in a local detention center.

11.Educational Level: Adult

12. Target Population(s): Detained adults

13. Estimated Number of Trainees: 270

14. Partner(s): ESCC Television - The Elementary and Secondary Cable Consortium, Milwaukee County Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture.