Community Service
Preparing Youth For Office Clerical Work & Building Maintenance

At IBSA, we offer youth offenders an opportunity to complete their court-ordered community service at our offices. Work can consist of typing letters, editing newsletters, folding, copying, stapling documents together, passing out agency information during parades and festivals...

Learning Principles of Responsibility

IBSA’s activities with youth are an effort to instill or reinforce responsibility in the youth who come through our doors. Therefore, attitudes are checked at the door and the environment of 'learning' is created from day one.

Youth are responsible for setting their time schedule, and after we assess the skills they have we create work for them to do. Since our agency compiles a lot of data and information anyway, there is never a lack of work to be done. They may enter names, addresses and phone numbers into MS Access or a custom software, they may type up a draft proposal we will be sending out to granting agencies, or they may vacuum the hallways and clean all the glass in; and out of, the building. In the environment we have set, it is laid back, but the work in itself is responsible activity.

Thinking Like an Employee

Youth referred to our community service opportunity are given responsibility just as if they were employees. They do complete an intake application in which they provide general information. They are asked what they percieve their existing skills to be, what area of work activity they would like to begin in, and they are instructed on how to use the software for the job. Taking advantage of the skills youth of today have in computer operation, young people catch on real quick to a variety of software applications; sometimes better than adults!

For more information, contact Lazone Grays at (785) 422-0761 or ibsa@myway.com