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  • New Bedford
    • In The Beginning
    • First Literature Seminar
    • How We Continued
  • Lynn-Lowell
    • Introduction
    • How We Began
    • Planning For The Group
    • What Happens In The Group
    • Follow One Program
    • Writing And Testimonials
  • Dorchester
    • Section 1: Introduction
    • Section 2: How We Began
    • Section 3.1: Class Exercises: March 11
    • Section 3.2: Class Exercises: March 18
    • Section 3.3: Class Exercises: March 25
    • Section 4.1: Class Exercises: April 1
    • Section 4.2: Class Exercises: April 8
    • Section 4.3: Class Exercises: April 15
    • Section 4.5: Class Exercises: April 22
    • Section 4.6: Class Exercises: April 29
    • Section 5.1: Class Exercises: May 6
    • Section 5.2: Class Exercises: May 13
    • Section 6: Graduation Ceremony
  • Texas
    • Section 1: Introduction
    • Section 2: Address To The Houston Philosophical Society
    • Section 3: Texas Women's Paradigm
  • Connections UK
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• Other Programs
  • Introduction
  • Women's Prison Program: Dartmouth, Massachusetts
  • Connections in the UK
  • Connections: United Kingdom. Final Report
  • Arizona: Living Through Literature
  • A New York Program
  • Introduction
  • Introductory Remarks for a CLTL-Conference Juvenile Panel Discussion
  • Report on Juvenile Programs as Presented at a 2004 CLTL Conference
  • Dorchester Juvenile Program
  • New Bedford District Court Juvenile Program
  • How the New Bedford Juvenile Program Began
  • Applying CLTL to Drug Courts
• Results & Evaluations
  • Introduction to Results
  • Formal Studies
    • Combining Bibliotherapy and Positive Role Modeling as an Alternative to Incarceration
    • TABLE 1: Characteristics Of Offenders In Study Group
    • New Bedford Evaluation
    • An Evaluation of the Changing Lives Through Literature Program
    • CLTL Statistics Table
    • Lynn-Lowell Statistics
  • Testimonials
    • Students
    • Students: Dorchester
    • How has CLTL helped you?
    • Letter from a graduate
    • Instructors
    • Probation Officers
    • Vanna White
    • Judges
    • The Joy of My Judgeship
    • Others
  • Informal Feedback
    • Kansas Teenagers Evaluate CLTL
    • The Challenge of Radical Sentencing
• How to Start a Program
  • Team Concept
  • Role of the P.O.
  • Role of the Judge
  • Role of the Community Judge
  • Judicial Authorization
  • Choosing the First Group
  • Choosing an Approach
  • Curriculum
  • Realistic Goals
  • Rules and Guidelines
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  • Trying to Start a Program in Los Angeles

Testimonials

To CLTL's credit, many who have become involved, stay involved. The power of literature to transform our lives, contribute to our self-awareness, and help all of us - probationers, POs, judges, and instructors - walk forward and make better choices has been expressed over and over, to us and about us. Here are just a few of those voices:

• Students
• Instructors
• Probation Officers
• Judges
• Others