Black History Month

 

IT’S A
CELEBRATION
Can’t Stop
Won’t Stop
The Progression Of The
African American Movement!
A Look Back At Our History Of Music And Entertainment!

When:
Saturday February 25th
Where: Maclaren YCF Visiting Center
Time: 1p-4p

 

Please join us in celebrating the December OMS cultural event, the 3rd Annual Aztec Rite of Passage Ceremony

 A Few Details: Aztec Ceremony (Panketzaliztli Group)

Date: December 17, 2011

Staff: OMS/TSS, CSS Team and other OMS staff from Central,

Where: Visitation Center  -  From: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Description and Significance of the Event: Purpose is educational and to affirming the positive behavior of the youths in the Aztec Group in their compliance with the mission statement of OYA including but not limited to increasing a positive cultural identity thereby establishing protective factors which assist in the reformation process.

Here is some brief information on a rites of passage recognition as it relates to the Aztec youth Group here at MacLaren.

\More information about the cultural group that will be coming into MacLaren to assist with this ceremony, please visit   http://ameyaltonal.com/

  (by clicking on this link you will enter into a culture where the Aztec Dance is a way of life that teaches how to live in harmony and balance. Where values and believes always take into account the community as a whole.)

The Rites of Passage   is the process to denote rituals marking the transitional phase between childhood and full inclusion into a tribe or social group.

Rites of passage have three phases: separation, transition, and reincorporation.

In the first phase, people withdraw from their current status (in our environment at MacLaren, gang affiliated/street mentality/ antisocial behavior) and prepare to move from one place or status to another. “The first phase (of separation) comprises symbolic behavior (The DANCA; The Dance) signifying the detachment of the individual or group … from an earlier fixed point in the social structure. There is often a detachment or “cutting away” from the former self in this phase, which is signified in symbolic actions and rituals. For example: the cutting of the hair for a person who has just joined the military. He or she is “cutting away” the former self.

From the MacLaren OMS Team: Rebecca Yazzie, Steve Llanes, Rolando Ramirez, Kathleen Fullerton, Edwards Roderick, and Craig Cuttings

Central OMS support

Please contact OMS if you have further information.  

New visiting schedule in effect

MacLaren’s new visiting schedule went into effect on October 1. To see the schedule, please click here.

National Geographic on Teenage Brains

This is a great article that debunks some theories about teenage brains and explains well why they are…different.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/10/teenage-brains/dobbs-text/1

Mt. Angel Oktoberfest

Come visit the OYA booth at the Mt. Angel Oktoberfest. Current and former staff of MacLaren, Oak Creek and Hillcrest youth correctional facilities volunteer their time to serve delicious cabbage rolls and decadent cheesecake. We’ll be at Oktoberfest from Thursday, September 15 through Sunday, September 18. See you there!

Visiting cancelled September 10, 2011

Visiting is cancelled on September 10 because the annual MacLaren Pow Wow is being held. Normal visiting will resume on Sunday, September 11, 2011.