For many inmates at juvenile correctional facilities, looking ahead to freedom brings anxiety and doubt. This program illustrates the challenges that often await young offenders following incarceration and shows teen inmates preparing to face the corporate world, their families, and themselves. Overcoming illiteracy, building marketable work skills, and becoming familiar with employment counseling and job search techniques are some of the subjects explored. The emotional side of leaving prison - including homecomings with elated parents and siblings and the counseling that often accompanies those reunions - is also illustrated in depth. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act. Follows educational and program recommendations provided by the National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice.

Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Feb. 21, 2008. Learn360 is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

Literacy Improvement in Juvenile Prisons (3:57) -- Vocational Training and Employment for Incarcerated Youth (3:14) -- Vocational Planning and Support System (2:25) -- Incarcerated Youth: Mental and Physical Health (3:56) -- Reentry Into Society from Prison (4:54).