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JRC provides, with prior parental consent, sex education to its students, including education in the area of birth control. We also give a pregnancy test for female students on the day of their admission to JRC. Male and female students normally live in different residences (except for crisis situations which are limited in duration and in which higher-than-normal staffing levels are employed to supervise the students very carefully), and JRC controls the interaction of its male and female students as closely as possible while they are attending JRC. Students are allowed to have home visits on five occasions each year and during those periods, supervision is in the hands of the parents. |
Each of our higher functioning students spends
two weeks taking care of a computerized baby that cries and demands care
at various unexpected times. This program, designed by the American Red
Cross, helps teenagers realize that having a baby is a serious
responsibility and not the casual project that some students might have
imagined it to be prior to their undergoing this training. 