El Paso Sheriff's program mentors at-risk students towards graduation
This summer, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is looking forward to partnering up with high school students in the County facing challenges to graduate. The El Paso County Sheriff's Office is leading a summer program, "Back on Track," which aims to help high school students with academic challenges to graduate. The program involves resource officers from the sheriff's office who mentor at-risk youth to recover lost course credits and participate in fun, community activities. This program has been in existence for over a decade and incorporated into the Sheriff’s Office ten years ago to work closer with students in high schools where Resource Officers are available. The focus of the program is on forming a positive relationship between mentors and students, helping to lower the drop-out rate and crime rate in the community.
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This summer, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is looking forward to partnering up with high school students in the County facing challenges to graduate.
The program led by the Sheriff’s Office is called “Back on Track” and its goal is to help these high school students succeed in meeting their academic goals to graduate.
Resource Officers provided by the sheriff's office mentor the at-risk youth involved in the program, with the focus of helping them recover lost course credits and also give them a chance to participate in fun, community activities.
The program has been in existence for more than a decade, but the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office incorporated it as their own ten years ago to work closer with students in high schools where Resource Officers are available.
In its early years, it started with a partnership at the San Elizario and Clint School Districts, but over the past couple years the program has been expanded to the Fabens and Tornillo Districts.
Commander of the Patrol Division for the Sheriff’s Department Ryan Urrutia first told us about this program when he stopped by to sit down with KFOX for a Community Conversation.
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Urrutia says while there’s a clear goal within the program, keeping the kids engaged and making it exciting is also important.
Urrutia says, “We do a variety of different things. We do rock crawling at Waco Tanks, we've taken them to the Chihuahua's, we've taken them to Carlsbad Caverns, so it just depends on what our sponsorship brings in for the summer and the availability of what we can do."
Urrutia believes the program is focused on forming a positive relationship between mentors and students. He says, “We want these at-risk youth to realize the benefits of education, come out with a sense of well-being, but also come out with a sense of a positive interaction with law enforcement.”
In addition to giving the youth a positive sense of well-being, Urrutia says this program is also intended to help lower the drop-out rate, as well as the crime rate in our community.
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