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~Y1ission: to promote il1creased opportunities for citizens to ...... learn about the 1m; and the leaal system.

NICEL he National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law (NICEL) 711 G Street. SE Tis a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering citizens Washington. DC 20003-2861 Voice: (202) 546-6644 through law-related education. LRE is a unique blending of 'IT: (202) 546-7591 substance and strategy: students learn substantive information Fax: (202) 546-6649 about laws, the legal system, and their rights and responsibili­ tie::. through strategies that promote cooperative learning, critical thinking, and positive interaction between young people and adults.

Wnat People Are Saying about NICEL:

The Street Law Program has proven very effective in educating children and youth regarding the law and I am pleased that Yale Law School was involved in it early on. Hillary Rodham Clinton

[ never knew that teens were so victimized by crime. EM now [ know how much can be done to make my school and neighbor~ hood better. Things are really improving. New York City youth participaiing in Teens, Crime, and the Community

The Street Law program is the most positive thing I've been involved in since I stalied working in law enforcement 16 years ago. Police Sgt. Dan Goyette, Great Falls, Montana

When a school dropout and hard-core delinquent studies four hours a day in his detention bedroom to win the role of prosecutor in the mock tria/. you know the students are hooked. The program is a resounding success. Sonnie DeCencio, head teacher at the Camden County, N.J., Youth Center This publication was prepared in part under grant 85-IS-CX-0004 from the This is a new way to teach civics and human rights. I believe it U.S. Office of luvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and funding is essential that we do this if democracy is to have long~term from a number of private sources. The stability in my country. contents do not necessarily reflect the views of this grantor agency. Professor Luis Bates, Santi3go, Chile _____------. ------..- ...... ----.za:: -......

I\~essage From the Chair

s the world spins toward the 21 st century, Americans face unprecedented Aeconomic, political. and social challenges. To confront these challenges successfully, our youth must be prepared for Our youth must be pre­ the responsibilities of democratic citizenship. So we must ask: Do young pared for the responsibilities people today have the requisite knowledge to protect their rights and fulfill their responsibilities? Do they pO~jsess the necessary skills -- and the will-­ of democratic citizenship. to participate meaningfully in the political process? The response to these questions may well determine our nation's future in a world that is increasingly diverse, legal, and interconnected. At NICEL, we believe that one of the most effective ways to strengthen our Empower citizens with democracy is to empower citizens with knowledge of the law. This will ensure that knowledge of the law. people understand their rights and responsibilities -- and know how to exercise them. While NICEL views legal literacy as a challenge for all Americans, we also know that it is essential to start early and practice often. And so we place special emphasis on youth -- on providing them with opportunities to learn about our Invest in democracy democracy and how to function within our system of laws. vy showing young people NICEL's law-related education (LREJ programs are attuned to real life. Addressing the rampant violence in our society, conflict management programs the connection between train youngsters to resolve disputes peacefully. Through service programs, young people make their communities safer and develop responsible citizenship skills. their lives and the law Students with disabilities learn about their rights and responsibilities under recent and giving them the legislation for the disabled. And in countries struggling toward democracy, citizens learn about human rights. opportunity to practice good The success of LRE has been documented: evaluations have shown that LRE programs reduce delinquency and improve student attitudes. But the greatest citizenship daily. indicator of NICEL's success is its tremendous growth. Launched in 1972 with Street Law, a practical law course taught by law students in two D.C. high schools, NICEL is now active nationally and internationally. Whether at home or abroad, NICEL's diverse programs and activities are united by the Street Law philosophy: Invest in democracy by showing young people the connection between their lives and the law and giving them the opportunity to practice good citizenship daily. As a NICEL volunteer and concerned American, I urge you to support this citizenship program that strengthens our democratic heritage. Your support will go a long way, because NICEL's use of volunteers from the community and its train­ ing of educators multiplies the impact of your investment.

Mark Gelber, Chairman NICEL's National AdviSOry Board - - -.. - The Year In Review

• Indianapolis attorney Fay • Operating in 43 states, the Teens, Crime, and the • NICEL expands its Street Williams, who headed Community crime prevention and service learning program Law program in high schools NICEL's National Advisory expands its outreach to Native American settings, publishes a at U.S. military bases in Board through two dynamic revised text with a new chapter on conflict management, gets Germany and receives a new terms, yields the chair to Mark its new national center lImning at full throttle, and issues its grant to establish a program Gelber, president of the first newsletter. An evaluai::(m finds that the program reduces in Hungary. Building on its College-University Resource delinquent behavior. (Pages 3, 8, 10) successful initiative in Chile, Institute in Washington, D.C. NICEL also receives funding • NICEL's D.C. Center trains teachers in the use of two new to launch programs in • NICEL goes online with curricula on conflict management and the jury system, and Ecuador, Bolivia, and another CompuServe and delivers law­ develops a Street Law Calendar with the help of high school country to be selected in related education (LRE) via students who are feted at the U.S. Supreme Court. The cen­ Central Amel ica. The Street "distance learning." (Page 9) ter's diversion program for first offenders produces new Law program in South Africa lessons on juries and mediation and begins its expansion into expands to include 14 univer­ • Bringing LRE to schools in community settings. (Pages 5, 10) sities, and opportunities are 48 states and the District of explored for a similar program Columbia and to juvenile jus­ • NICEL's affiliate., the D.C. Street Law Project at Georgetown in Ethiopia. (Pages 12-13) tice settings around the coun­ University Law Center, produces a new mock trial on date try, the National Training and rape and launches a family literacy program at area prisons. • A new publication on the jury Dissemination Program (Pages 6, 9) system that NICEL coauthored launches its urban initiative in wins an award for outstanding Nashville, Tenn. (Pages 4-5 ) educational progiamming. (Page (4)

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Community Service

rCEL believes that education should motivate youth to Nparticipate constructively in society. Its programs and This is a wonderful materials are designed to give young people the skills they need to make a difference in their community. One program, Teens, program. It has really Crime, and the Community (TCC), a joint project with the National Crime Prevention Council, is a model service learning brought together program that empowers young people to make their schools and the members of our communities safer. Teens learn how crime affects them, their families, and friends. Then they develop community service community in the fight projects to reduce crime in their classroom, playground, and against crime. community. Dan Phillips, Tee teacher at For example: Sigourney High School in Iowa • Students at Paul junior High School in Washington, D.C., set up a booth in the school cafeteria to hand out English/Spanish Pnoto ahove: Teens, Crime, and the brochures they developed on the high rate of teen victimization Jessie Phillips (left) and Jenny Community is a fun way by crime and how to avoid being a victim. Bucklin, stUdents at Sigourney High • At Sigourney High School in Sigourney, Iowa, the county sheriff School in Iowa, enjoy planning a to learn about responsibility. helped TCC students design a property identification program for property identification program for the elderly in their community. student in the Philadelphia Tee the elderly, permitted the teens to ride along in the sheriff's car, program and created an internship for stude: ItS in the dispatcher's office. • Youth at the Rappahannock Juvenile Center in Fredericksburg, Va., created a video, "Safety Street Beat," which was broadcast • increased their belief in ethi­ on local cable TV. cal rules and the need for law. • TCC students at the justice Resource Institute, a Sh.u;e-care • strengthened their sense juvenile justice setting in Boston, Mass., have published essays of altruism and community in the local newspaper explaining their feelings about having bonding. committed a crime, being locked up at Christmas, and their The TCC program, which is hopes for the future. operating in 43 states and the District of Columbia, is coordi­ In June 1992, SPEC Associates conducted a national evaluation nated through a national cen­ of the program. The study found that teens involved in the ter based at NICEL and funded education and action program by the Department of justice's • reduced their own delinquency and their association with Office of juvenile justice and delinquent peers. Delinquency Prevention.

3 t .-as - LRE For At~Risk Youth

t no other time in this coun­ Atry's history has the survival of its youth been so challenged. Large pnoto, this page: Confronted with escalating lev­ Benson High School government stu­ els of violence, an increase in dents visit the federal courthouse with drug and alcohol abuse, pover­ Pamela Stendahl (right), one of their ty, and broken homes, it is not mentors from the Miller, Nash law surprising that many young firm in Portland. The trip was part of the Oregon Mentor Program, which people feel alienated from their forms educational partnerships schools, their families, and their between law firms and high school communities. NICEL believes social studies classes. that law-related education can assist these youth, who are at prIOlo below: risk of delinquency. LRE can Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), left, and empower them with the knowl­ NICEL Co-Director Jason Newman display the 1992 Lifetime Service edge and skills they need to Award Hollings received for his out­ become law-abiding, participat­ standing contribution to LRE. The ing citizens committed to award is presented annually by the five democratic values. organizations participating in the To bring LRE programs to NTDP: the American Bar Association'c. the largest number of students, Special Committee on Youth Education for Citizenship, the Center NICEL participates with five Recent initiatives: for Civic Education, the Constitutional other organizations in the LRE In 1990, the NTDP launched an initiative to bring LRE to National '[ raining and Rights FO[;1dation, NICEL, and Phi juvenile justice settings. Within two years the program multiplied Alpha Delta Public Service Center. Dissemination Program (NTDP) from II to 54 sites, provided more than 20,000 hours of training to funded by the U.S. justice 4,000 juvenile justice professionals, and received an award from Department's Office of Juvenile the Juvenile justice Trainers Association. Another 1990 initiative, justice and Delinquency Drugs, the Law, and the Schools, has linked classrooms and the Prevention. Coordinated by community in a variety of substance abuse programs and distrib­ NICEL, the NTDP trains educa­ uted books and curriculum packages nationwide. The Urban tors, attorneys, Jaw enforce­ Initiative, launched in Nashville, Tenn., during the 1991-92 school ment and juvenile justice pro­ year, is mobilizing grassroots support for a comprehensive LRE fesfionals, and law students in program targeting at-risk youth in urban settings. LRE content and methods. Operating in schools in 48 Snaoshots of the NTDP in Action: states, the District of Columbia, Ala~ka: The Exxon Valdez oil spill was the subject of a mock trial and Puerto Rico, the program in prepared and argued by high school seniors, mostly Alaska Native 1992 reached over 1.4 million students, at a state-run boarding school. Other students served as elementary and secondary stu­ jurors and later compared their verdicts with the real one. dents (74 percent of whom are Florida: A diversion program in Palm Beach County requires first at-risk), at a cost of only $2.72 offenders to bring at least one parent to their once-a-week evening per student.

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Top plioto, tliis page: -All schools can have ter- Youths paint and install benches in a Pocatello, Idaho, park. The activity rific citizens ... starting is part of the Learning and Serving Together Program, to which they with their students and were assigned by juvenile court. The program won a 1992 Meritorious law-related education. Achievement Award from the NICEL trainer Leigh Wilkins (Indiana) Department of Justlt;e.

Bottom pnoto, tliis page: I know that some of us NICEL Associate Director Lee Arbetman (second from left) joins will not get into more juvenile justice profess!onals for an trouble because of you LRE planning session at a 1992 con­ ference in San Antonio, Tex. three teaching us about laws and still caring LRE classes. The six-week course, which has enhanced about us. knowledge of the law and from a letter to ateacher, police officer, improved family cor:lmunication, and attorney who taught LRE at a resi­ has been so popularthat an recidivism rate and received a 1992 Meritorious Achievement dential school for juvenile delinquents extension has been requested. Award from the Department of justice. This is in addition to other Diversion: juvenile court programs such as Evaluations of LRE: NICEL's ability to adapt community service, restitution, A study of 32 schools in six states conducted during the its LRE programs to juvenile and writing! research sanctions. 1980s by the Center for Action Research and the Social Science justice settings was enhanced Kentucky: Reduced shoplifting Education Consortium (SSEC) found that properly implemented by its D.C. Street Law Diversion was the outcome when juvenile LRE can reduce delinquency. In 1991, an interim SSEC report on Program for first-offender court workers joined with Wal­ LRE in juvenile justice settings indicated that students youths. Assigned by the court Mart and local police to educate • improved their attitudes toward the legal system. to 12 weeks of Saturday classes elementary school students • presented fewer discipline problems. on practical law and juvenile about the impact of this crime • were actively engaged in their education. justice, students practice deci­ on consumers and offenders. • learned important pro-social skills. sion-making skills. conduct Another Kentucky effort, the • developed empathy. mock trials and hearings, and statewide diversion program, Also in 1991, Iowa LRE coordinator Tim Buzzell reported on a hear guest speakers. This includes a 12-week LRE course, six-year study of LRE at the State Training School for boys. He model has been replicated teen courts, and video broad­ found that high-risk factors such as ineffective social bonding. around the country through casts. This program lowered the poor interactive skills, and lack of interest in learning may be NICEL's Juvenile Court ameliorated by participating in an LRE program. Alternative Program.

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Street Law Programs At Law ScflOOls

Law Scfwols witfl Street Law Programs Photo, rignt: Georgetown University law student Alabama, University or Ivonne Fleitas teaches a Street Law Baltimore, University of class at Bell Multicultural High Brooklyn Law School School in Washington, D.C, california, University of-Los Angeles Capital University· City University of New York Your first two years in law Cleveland State University Columbia University school. you focus on law Cumberland School of Law· , n 1972, Georgetown University Law Center launched the first Denver, University of with an academic point of Street Law clinic to send law students into high schools, juve­ Detroit, Universi:y of nile and adult correctioJ lal institutions, and community settings Detroit College of Law view, but teaching law to to teach practical law. Georgetown University Hamline University kids makes you realize Today, 38 law schools offer this program, most of them in Lewis and Clark University urban areas. Street Law is a popular offeri,lg at many law Loyola University (ILl there's more to the world schools, and some students claim it is their most rewarding law Loyola University [LAJ school experience. Maine, University or than just law school. You The programs have proven to be highly innovative, often New Mexico, University of have to share what you've developing creative solutions to real-life problems. For example: Notre Dame, University of • Through the Family Literacy program conducted by Georgetown Nova J Ili\'ersity learned with the public. University's Street Law Project, prison inmates attend child devel­ Onio Northern University opment and parenting classes and then spend one night per week Pugel SOlll1d, University of Kathleen Field, former participant in the Saint John's University playing games, singing songs, and reading to their children. Street Law clinic at Loyola University Saint Louis Ul1iversity School of Law in New Orleans and now • The Loyola University Street Law program presents interpreted Saint THomas University assistant to Professor Cait Clarke, who seminars on law and the legal system to New Orleans citizens San Francisco, University of directs that program. who are deaf and hard of hearing. California, University of-Berkeley" • The Street Law Clinic at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in Goldell Gate University" Ohio hires law students and high school students to assist its Hastings College" staff in mediation training in the public schools. New Col/ege of California·' • In Pennsylvania, high school students attending Summer Law Temple University Camp write their own mock trial and argue the case before a com­ Tellnessee, University of Utan, University of mon pleas judge. Law studen~:; are the teachers in this program, Wake Forest University· which is conducted by Temple University in conjunction with the Wayne State University University of Pennsylvania. Widener School of Law • Law students from the University of Notre Dame provide train­ Yale University ing in computerized legal research to inmates who serve as law clerks at the Michigan City maximum security prison in Indiana. • Not yet providing credit or pay to participating law students Notre Dame law students also counsel participants in community .. Administered through the service and job release programs at the DUComb C-:nter, an alter­ University of San Francisco native correctional facility.

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LRE for Students with Disahilities

he Americans with Disab~lities Ac~ (ADA) passed by Congress NICEL Special Programs Tin 1990 focused the public attentIon on a populatIon long Advisory Board ------1enjoyed all the activities. ignored. Since then, however, great attention has been paid to Gary T. Brown. Esq. how the general population has been affected by the legisla­ Attorney at Law I want my friends to come tion. Materials and seminars have been made available to Washington. DC businesses that need to provide reasonable accommodations Alexander Fernandez. Esq. too. to persons with disabilities. A great need also exists to educate Attorney. U.S. Dept. of Labor Washington. DC student in an LRE class at Worcester East people with disabilities about their rights and responsibilities De6ra Fries Middle School in Worcester, Mass. under the ADA. Special Education Teacher NICEL has been doing pioneering work to meet this need. Charles County Board of Education at rigfit: plioto With funding from the U.S. Department of Education and the Charles County, MD Students compete in the LRE Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, Yolanda Grissom Academic Quiz Bowl with the help of NICEL has field-tested its law-related education (LRE) lessons Special Education Facilitator counselor Katherine Storey at for students with disabilities in II states. The institute pro­ Baltimore, MD Crooked Oak High School in Bette Landisn, PIiD Oklahoma City. vides teacher training at conferences and on-site technical assistance. Gallaudet University Washington. DC Plioto, below: Students participating in these LRE programs have hearing, DOflald McGee. PIiD Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) displays vision, learning, behavioral, emotional, cognitive, developmen­ Disability Consultant and his award from NICEL for commit­ taL and physical disabilities. They are acting as attorneys in Interpreter ment and dedication to people with mock trials; 1E'?rning from police officers how to be good wit­ Washington. DC disabilities as NICEL Program nesses; participating in mock elections, city council hearings. Karen Reddick-Little Director Wanda Routier looks on. arrests. and arraignments; and have even met with a U.S. Special Education Teacher Says Harkin: "Educating $tudents Prince George's County, MD with disabilities on their legal and Supreme Court justice. Capt. Francis I. Robertello. USN. DC constitutional rights and responsibili­ Director. Naval Dental School ties is of utmost importance at this Bethesda. MD time. Without this knowledge, the Wayne Sflook recent passage of the landmark legis­ Former Director, Virginia Dept. lation, the Americans with Disabilities for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Act, could mean very little." Richmond, VA Lorraine Stoltz Teacher. Maryland School for the Deaf Frederick. MD Howard Stone Former Executive Director Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH) Bethesda, MD Honorary Member De60rafi Tanllen, plio Professor. Georgetown University. and author Washington. DC

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Conflict Management

agencies have stressed the importance of conflict manage­ - ment in reducing youth vio­ lence and highlighted TCC as a The provlem is, kids are vrought up believing that they are not anything unless they program working effectively can fight w~ we have to change that. toward this goal. Bernard Gray, D.C. Board of Education (Ward 6) "The Conflict Zoo" What happens when young I mediated an argument between my friends. We talked about triggers and generat~ zoo animals are suddenly put into a new iJlay area without any ing options. It worked really well and now my two friends don't fight anymore. rules? NICEL is currently draft­ TCC participant in Philadelphia ing and field-testing lessons that involve elementary school students in resolving the ani­ f we are to have any impact on the violence committed by and mals' disputes. Beginning with Iagainst young people, America's youth must be part of the conflict and conflict manage­ solution. Conflict management training can provide the skills ment skills, the lessons gradt.::ll· and tools needed to resolve disputes peacefully and creatively. Iy move into other governance N[CEL has provided this training at conferences for teachers issues. Students learn about at all grade levels in the District of Columbia and at sites around triggers, active listening, and the country. A particular focus has been on new strategies for generating options in the face of integrating conflict management lessons into the curriculum. conflict. One example is the use of conflicts in children's litErature and Conflict management and fairy tales to introduce alternatives to vioience. With funding mediation training have from the D.C. Public Schools and the U.S. Department of become increaSingly popular Education, NICEL has even trained D.C. elementary school stu­ across the country as school dents to mediate conflicts between their peers. systems everywhere have had to find a positive response to the We Call Work [t Out! problem of escalating violence. N[CEL has also put its creative energies to use in developing NICEL is proud to be a part of new curricula for teaching mediation skills. The institute has the solution. been training secondary school teachers in the use of a !lew manual to be published in 1993: We Can Work it Out! Problem Solvillg tlirougli Mediatioll. It walks teachers through nine interac­ tive lessons that carefully build the skills for student participa­ tion in a mock mediation. The manual was developed as part of the Teens, Crime, and the Community (TCC) program conducted in partnership with the National Crime Prevention Council and "Conflict Zoo" illustrations by Francis funded by the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency E. Washington, Jr. Prevention. The Centers for Disease Control and other health

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Mock Trials

ock trials, in which youths act as attorneys and witnesses, Mare one of the most popular law-related education (LRE) activities. While having fun, students learn about courtroom ------Tnrougn mock trials I can procedures, sharpen their critical thinking and advocacy skills, increase their self-esteem and ability to work cooperatively, and combine teacning and tne may even decide to become lawy"!rs. Since 1972, NICEL's affiliate, the D.C. Street Law Project at law. It makes me feel bet~ Georgetown University Law Center, has been developing an tel' about my profession. annual mock trial problem on a timely social issue. Recent trials have focused on date rape, educational malpractice, and sexual I don't consider tne work I harassment. Street Law students from D.C. high schools argue the cases before real judges in a mock trial tournament. NICEL do at Catlin Gabel as pro plioto avove: maintains an inventory of these trials, distributing them to mock bono work. I just do it Students from School Without Walls trial coordinators and other educators around the country, who rejoice to learn they are 1992 mock use them in statewide mock trial tournaments. trial tournament champions from D.C. because J like it. It's fun. To help people conduct mock trials successfully in class­ Superior Court Associate Judge rooms and competitions, NICEL offers a wide selection of mate­ Jon Folkestad, attorney and mock trial Eugene Hamilton. (Photo by Nyall coach at Gatlin Gabel School in Oregon Beggs) rials. It has also published the Street Law Mock Trial Manual, which contains detailed instructions for organizing and conducting classroom mock trials plus a series of mock trial problems. plioto velow: NICEL Goes Online, A student from the D.C. area engages in a role-play with a Michigan student Delivers LRE Via via distance learning. Distance Learning

s a member of CompuServe, a national/international Aelectronic bulletin board, NICEL now offers selected law-related education materials online. Ranging from case studies to mock trials, these materials include general LRE information and announcements of conferences. Using video and telecommunic3tions technology provided by Ameritech, NICEL has also conducted a conflict mana€,~ ment session that linked studnts in the Washington, D.C., area with their peers in Michigan. NICEL National Advisory Board member Scott Satterlund, associate director of Upper Great Lakes Educational Technologies, helped to arrange NICEL's participation. Buoyed by this success, NICEL looks forward to greater use of distance learning to enhance its delivery of LRE.

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D.C. Center: LRE Lao r;::::,. For the Nation r~5;J

any of the programs featured in this report were initially Mdeveloped in conjunction with the D.C. Center for Citizen plioto at riglit: Education in the Law. As coordinator of law-related education WTOP education reporter Kristi King (LRE) activities in the nation's capital, the center often pilots registers the enthusiasm of Hine programs that are replicated nationally. Junior High School students follow­ ing a center presentation on conflict Crime Prevention management techniques. One such program is Teens, Crime, and the Community plioto below: (TCC), which sensitizes ninth grade civics students to the impact Other LRE Programs Attorneys Melanie Gerber (left) and of crime and involves them in crime prevention projects that Vincent Forte discuss a point with an address problems in their schools and communities. TCC The center also organizes Anacostia High School student as part includes a conflict management component and was successful­ mock trials at elementary, of the center's Law Mentor program. ly implemented in 1992 in 32 D.C. public schools and education­ junior high, and senior high al centers, including a school for students with emotional ana school levels; coordinates Top plioto, page I 1: Mentor programs that pair At a Supreme Court reception, Chief behavioral disabilities. attorneys and government Justice Warren Burger (retired) pre­ sents certificates of achievement to Staff Development for Teachers officials with high school social D.C. students who compiled the To implement TCC and its other programs, the center studies classes; directs a law 1992-93 Street Law Calendar. The emphasizes staff development for teachers. In 1992 it trained academy at Eastern Senior calendar highlights significant secondary-level teachers to use role-plays, mock hearings, and High School; and promotes moments in the history of other interactive strategies to teach a variety of topics: the juve­ youth leadership and commu­ Washington, D.C., and the Bill of nile justice system, the jury process, human rights, and contro­ nity service throughout the Rights. versial issues such as gun control, abortion, sexual har"lssment, nation's capital. Bottolll plio to, page 1I: and the right to die. The center also conducted workshops on NIGEL Co-Director Ed O'Brien pre­ conflict management based on the new mock mediation manu­ Support sides at a human rights teleconfer­ al, We Can Worfll1 Out! Elementary-level workshops focused on Center activities during ence linking D.C. high school stu­ due process, mock trials, and conflict management lessons from 1991-92 were supported by the denls with their peers in Soweto and another new curriculum, "The Conflict Zoo." Commission on the Bicentennial Durban, South Africa. of the U.S. Constitution, D.C. Rehabilitating First Offenders Public Schools, D.C. Superior The center continued NICEL's 13-year-old Street Law Court, the State Justice Institute, Diversion Program, which aims to rehabilitate first offenders the U.S. Department of and reduce the recidivism rate. Assigned by D.C. Superior Court Justice's Office of Juvenile to a 12-week program of Saturday classes on practical law and Justice and Delinquency juvenile justice, students practice decision-making skills, con­ Prevention, and the U.S. duct mock trials and hearings, and hear guest speakers. In 1992 Department of Education. the program created new lessons on mediating a conflict and serving on a jury, and geared up for an expansion to probation field units in the community that will incorporate police officers into the classes.

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D.C. Center: LRE Lab For the Nation

D.C. Center Advisory Board ""..,-. --- Han. William C. Pryor, Co-CFwir D,C. Superior Court ------~---- Elliott Hall, Co-Cnai' Ford Motor Co. I see tnese [LRE ] lessons as sU/vival skills. Tne students must see now tne law works for tnem. Rev. Lewis Ant(lOny elementary school teacher at D.C. Center conference Metropolitan Wesley AME Zion Church Stuart Bindeman It nelped me understand and deal witn confiicts tnat I may face in tne community as well Commercial Investors, Inc. Entest Gel{lOrn as in scnool and now to deal witn tnem in a positive way. It also snowed me wnat I can do jones, Day, Reavis E.,. Pogue Sam Harvey as a student to nelp in my community. Georgetown University junior high school stUdent at Teens, Crime, and the Community conference Cyntnia Lovo Canan, Kiersh & Lobo Han. jose Lopez Law Firms Participatillg ill Melltor D.C. Superior Court Program Dr. L. Alan Manning Physician Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn Han. Jim Natnanson Arnold & Porter D.C. City Council Baker & Botts Dr. Vincent Reed Beveridge & Diamond Washington Post Co. Cadwalader, Wickersham &Taft Walter Ridley Carr, Goodson & Lee D.C. Corrections Covington & Burling Dr. Eva Rousseau, Principal Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Dunbar Senior High School Jacobsen Maria Salvadore Hogan & Hartson D.C. Public Library Morrison & Foerster Gwendolyn Simmons Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle Women's Bar Foundation Paul, Hastings, lanofsky & Walker Leroy SlI'aill Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro McKinley Senior High School Piper & Marbury jofin Tydings Sidley & Austin GreaterWashington Steptoe & Johnson Board of Trade Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan Han. Fred B. Ugast, Chien udge Wiley. Rein & Fielding D.C. Superior Court Del Walters WJLA-TV David Wilmot Harmon & Wilmot

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Around The World Wit{1 ,~ NICEL Cf;p

f recent progress toward democracy in many countries is to be Ethiopia: Elisabeth Dreyfuss, Isustained, mass education of citizens in law, human rights, Street Law program director at ------In all my years of teaching, and democratic values is needed. Addressing this need since Cleveland-Marshall College of 1985, NICEL has hosted visitors from more than 50 countries, Law in Ohio, presented a work­ I've never taught a class with including leading civics educators, law school deans and profes­ shop at a 1992 human rights so much student interest. sors, judges, bar association presidents, and human rights conference at Addis Ababa activists. Almost universally, they have recognized a great need University (AAU). The work­ Judy McGuane, referring to her Street Law for NICEL's innovative programs and have asked for assistance shop was cosponsored by the class at Kaiserslautern High School in in adapting these programs for their countries. NICEL has suc­ Fund for Peace and the Inter­ Germany cessfully developed programs to teach citizens of other coun­ Africa Group. Despite political tries about law, human rights, and democracy. turmoil in Ethiopia, the chances look good for a Street Law program at AAU.

Namibia: NICEL trained para­ legals who now teach in the schools about the country's new constitution and laws.

Chile: Trained by NICEL, law students in Santiago are teach­ ing civics and practical law in high schools, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, and juvenile institutions. Funded by the National Endowment South Africa: NICEL's popular Street Law text has been adapted for Democracy, the program is for use in South Africa; the Street Law program, now in place at developing and field-testing 14 universities, has produced a TV series and a national maga­ materials on human rights and zine for teens; and Street Law materials are available in English civics. In addition, planning is and Zulu. NICEL and Lawyers for Human Rights in South Africa underway to train law students developed the text, Human Rignts for Ail, and conducted training in conflict management tech­ in human rights around the country. High school students of niques. all races gather annually to negotiate a constitution for a space colony and to enter a mock trial competition. Recent high­ lights: A Green Street Law program combines practical law and environmental awareness during wilderness outings for interra­ cial groups of youths, and a Street Law play on juvenile arrest was presented to schools throughout Natal. Funding for the pro­ gram has come from South Africa's Association of Law Societies and the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID).

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Around The World with NICEL

Ecuador and Bolivia: A new Eastern Europe: Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest is very grant from AID has enabled interested in establishing a citizen education program with Cover, page 12 NICEL to extend its activities NICEL's help. ThE; university's interest was sparked by work­ ------Published in association with the in Latin America to Ecuador, shops on law, human rights, and democracy education that South African Street Law program, this Bolivia, and a third cnuntry to NICEL conducted in Hungary and the then-Czech a~d Slovak magazine for teens receives assistance be selected in Centml Federal Republic in 1992. from Lawyers for Human Rights. America. More than 50 law students trained by NICEL The Philippines: A former NICEL staffer began a program that Pnoto, page 12 have developed lessons on sends law students from the Ateneo de Manila School of Law to The Durban delegation to the 1992 Space Colony Conference poses with law, human rights, ar.d democ­ teach in Manila high schools. Mandla Mchunu (standing, in dark racy, and conducted classes in shirt), director of the Street Law pro­ schools and community set­ gram in South Africa. tings. NICEL also conducted new outreach and recruitment - - Large pnota, tl1is page: in Quito, Ecuador, and This program could not be more important and more Bolivian LRE Program Director Nardy assessed legal and social suxo (wearing white hair ribbon) and needs in La Paz, Bolivia. timely. I do not know of anything that will aid the Ana Sanchez (far right), director of NICEL's Latin American programs, students more. hear the legal concerns of indigenous Germany: With funding from women at Moon Valley in La Paz. the Department of Defense, Christian Cox, assislant to the Chilean minister of education NICEL trained hif-h school photo below: teachers on U.S. military bases Street Law has helped me in understanding what law Elisabeth Dreyfuss explains the Street in Germany and implemented Law program, which she directs at Street Law in 11 high schools. is, what my rights are, what my restraints are .... Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in Ohio, to law students at Addis Ababa Students are learning about aSouth African high school student University in Ethiopia. the American legal system and military law, and comparing both to the law in Germany. An evaluation at several of the schools by the Center for Action Research found that Street Law students surpassed control students in knowledge gained about the law and an increase in attitudes shown to favor law-abiding behavior.

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NICEL Publications

J 992 publications highlight was the revision of the popular TeeJ1S, Crime, and t{le Community text and Ateacher's manual. Sporting a spiffy new cover, the text features a new chapter on conflict man­ agement along with new teaching strategies, statistics, and graphics. Both books were authored by NICEL Deputy Director Judy Zimmer in conjunction with the National Crime Prevention Council. A brand new manual, We Can Work It Out! Problem Solving Througli Mediation, will join the list of NICEL publications in 1993. Modeled on the popular Street Law Mock Trial ManuJ/' the new materials walk teachers through nine interactive lessons, carefully building the skills for student participation in a mock mediation. The manual, developed by NICEL in partnership with the National Crime Prevention Council, includes ready-to-use mediation scenarios for easy replication and classroom use. To help young people understand their role and responsibility as future jurors, NICEL joined with the Association of l'rial Lawyers of America to publish Wlien Justice Is Up to You. This book involves junior and senior high school students in a mock trial that allows them to hear testimony, deliberate with the help of standard instructions from the judge, and bring in a verdict. The publication captured an award from the American Society of Association Executives for outstanding educational programming.

- - - NICEL Publications and Audiovisuals Textbooks: Filmstrips: We Can Work it Out! Problem Solving Tlirougli Mediation (1993) Street Law: A Student's Guide Wlienjustice Is Up to You (1992) to Practiwl Law (1983)* Teens, Crime, and tne Community (1992) * Current Legal Issues I ( 1984) * Human Rights for All (1991 )* Current Legal Issues Il (1985)' Street Law: A Course in Practical Law ( 1990) * Street Law Test Bank (1990) Videos: A Guide to Teacliing "Participation in Government" tlirougn Street Law IntrodUCing NICEL (1991) (1988)* Etnics on Trial (1987)* Practical Law for jail and Prison Personnel (1987)* justice in tlie District of Columbia: Teacning Today's Constitution (1987) Tougn Decisions (1988) Excel in Civics: Lessons in Citizenship (1985)* Newsletters: Tlie Family, tlie Courts and tne Constitution (1985)* Street Law News Great Trials in American History: Civil War to tlie Present (1985)* NICEL Network Family Law: Competencies in Law and Citizensliip (1984) Teens in Action Street Law Mock Trial Manual (1984) Legal Citizen (D.C.) Consumer Law: Competencies in Law and Citizensliip (1982) Law and tne Consumer (1982) • Teadier's Mallual available

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Gifts and .- Contributions

Sustainers ICEL appreciates the support of a wide variety of public and Mary Curd Larkin Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Nprivate sources. Continuing support for the National Liane Levetan Foundation Training and Dissemination Program has been provided by the R. Stanley Lowe Christopher McBride West Publishing Company u.s. Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Chief Justice Vincent L. McKusick Delinquency Prevention. Other sources of continuing support Maior DOllors Abelardo Menendez include the Departments of Education and Defense, the George Batchelor Foundation u.s. Robert Meserve Cora and lohn H. Davis Foundation National Endowment for Democracy, the u.s. Agency for Vivian Mills International Development, the District of Columbia's Mark Mllrphy Be/feraetors Georgetown University Law Center, and the D.C. Public Schools, Jason Newman Max and Victoria Dreyfus Department of Corrections, and Superior Court. Individual con­ Edward L. O'Brien Foundation, Inc. tributions from members of the National Advisory Board also O'Connor & Hannan Philip Graham Foundation provide ongoing support for NICEL. In addition, the institute Alan Page Charles Peebles Sterling Drug, Inc. receives individual contributions from federal employees as Richard Pettigrew Xerox Corporation part of the Combined Federal Campaign. Lissa Pierce We also wish to thank the following corporations, founda­ Patrolls Justice Lewis F. Powell,lr. Arent Fox Kintner tions, law firms, and individuals for their generous support. E. Barrett Prettyman,lr. Plotkin & Kahn judge William Pryor Covington & Burling Ramon Rasco COIftribulors justice William H. Erickson janet Reno Morrison & Foerster Robert M. Ervin Linda Riekes Jacqueline Allee William W. Falsgraf David Robinson Associates AggieAJvez Beth Farnbach james Rohloff David R. Brink Lee Arbetman Robert Floyd Donald Saint Exxon Corporation CJyde Atkins Friday, Eldredge end Clark Jack Lee Sammons William Henry EJeanor Barnard Carolyn Galbreath Debra Smith IBM Corporation Lowell Beck Mark Gelber Justin A. Stanley Robert R. BeJair Brenda Girton Sabrina Toma Friellds William Bell Ruth Glltstein Lee Roy Black Lyman Tondel Arnold & Porter Katherine Hagen Jerrol Tostrud Thomas T. Cobb Jennifer Bloom Dean Hansell Bruce Bonar Mary Pat Toups lohn I. Creedon Foundation Julia Hardin Sidney Tuchman David Ellwanger Rebecca Bond Geoffrey Hazard, Jr. Kevin C. Boyle United States Trust Company John D. Feerick Roger Hewitt of New York Holland & Knight James Buchanan Ruth Hinerfeld Dan Walbolt A.P. and Mildred Hollingsworth C&P Telephone Mark Hulsey Alice Collopy Sharyll Watterson Anthony Lucas-Spindletop Douglas Jobes Cypen & Cypen LeroyWew Foundation Judge Norma H.lohnson Dade Community Foundation Jamil Zainaldin Microsoft Corporation Judge Sam D. Johnson Judith Zimmer Richard Parker Lawrence Dark T. Paine Kelly Tom Diemer Howard Zipser Ruden, Bamett. McCloskey, Smith, Eric Klotz Charles Douglas Schuster & Russell, PA John Kramer Gretchen Dykstra Janet Studley lohn Krsul Bert H. Early Fay Williams Kim Kwang

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Statemel'l t of Support and Revenue

Support, Revenue, Sllpport and Expenses Grant Revenue ...... 1,800,426. Contributions ...... 70,10 I. for trw Year Ended Total Support ...... 1,870,527. June 30.1992 Revenue

Royalties ...... 153,674. Interest Income ...... 5,365. Miscellaneous Revenue ...... J 3,014. Total Revenue ...... 172,053. Total Support and Revenue ...... 2,042,580.

Expellses

Program Services, Management and General Expenses ...... 1,903.736. Administrative Expenses ...... 166.776. Total Expenses ...... 2,070,512.

Excess (Deficiency) of Support and Revenue Over Expenses ...... (27.932.) Fund Balance. Beginning of Year ...... 310.120. Fund Balance, End of Year ...... 282.188.

Statement of Expenses Program Services, Management, and General Expenses as ofltme 30. 1992 Salaries and Benefits ...... 1.034.361. Professional Fees & Consultants ...... 108.798. Supplies ...... 29,593. Conferences and Meetings ...... 91,098. Publications and Subscriptions ...... 36,031. Travel ...... 143.830. Postage and Couriers ...... 27.350. Telephone and Utilities ...... 26.797. Printing and Duplication ...... 64,229. EquipmentlRentallLease ...... 59.437. Depreciation ...... 17.379. Interest Expense ...... 47.352. Miscellaneous ...... 12,404. Direct Program Expenses ...... 205.077. * Total ...... 1,903,736. Administrative Expenses ...... 166.776. Total Expenses ...... 2,070,512 . • payments to suvcontractors under grants.

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NICEL Staff*

Co-Directors Director of Development and Clearinghouse/Conference Copier/Maillng Specialist JASON NEWMAN Financial Administration Coordinator SHERRI SINGLETON EDWARD L. O'BRIEN REBECCA BOND CAROLINE KULCZYCKI D.C. Street Law Project Staff Associate Director Program Directors AdministrativeAssistants {Georgetown University Law LEE ARBETMAN AGGIEALVEZ MARIA HOPKINS Centerj Associate Director for JEFFREY CHINN ROBERT MASCIOLA Director and Professor Administration ERIN DONOVAN JON WENTZEL RICHARD L. ROE JUDY PARKER MARY CURD LARKIN Youth Coordinator WANDA J. ROUTIER Clinical Fellows MICHAEL WATTS Deputy Director for ANA I. SANCHEZ KATYA LEZIN Juvenile Justice Secretaries STUART GROSSMAN Office Manager BEBSCHORAK HELLENE BURNETT KARLA WILLIAMS Executive Assistant Deputy Director for PAMELA DENNIS LORETTA MOSS Program Coordinator D.C. Programs Receptionist/Secretary RICHARDODY JUDITH A. ZIMMER JAMES ROHLOFF Publications Director RUTH GUTSTEIN 'Current as of June 1993. Otner personnel during 1992 included James Buchanan. Micnele Cole. and Natalie Jonnson at NICEL, and Justin Brooks and Ellen Marr/ls at tHe D.C. Street Law Project.

National Advisory Board

1rk Gelber. Cnair Richard J. Gable Stuart G. Ne\llman Linda Start rresident National Center for juvenile justice Stuart Newman Associates Michigan LRE Project The College-University Resource Pittsburgh, PA Miami.FL Oakland Schools Institute KatHerine Hagen Tfteodore A. Pinnock Waterford. MI Washington. DC ATI:T Corporation Attorney at Law lerro! Tostrud ludy Areen Washington. DC San Diego, CA Vice President and Assistant Dean DeQ/1 Hatlsell Scott Satterlund to the President Georgetown University Law Center LeBoeuf. Lamb, Leiby & Upper Great Lakes West Publishing Company Washington. DC MacRae Educational Technologies SI. Paul. MN Stuart Bindeman Los Angeles, CA Marquette. MI Sidney Tucflman Commercial Investors. Inc. Charles Kolb Steve Sliapiro President Bethesda. MD General Counsel Germantown, MD Tuchm~n Training Systems. inc. David R. Brink United Way of America Sally Shelton-Colby Indianapolis, IN Dorsey & Whitney Alexandria. VA Senior Fellow Elvin Tyrone Minneapolis. MN Judge David B. Mitcflell Georgetown University Texas Education Agency Jonn BtlcFtaJIan.Jr. Circuit Court for Baltimore Washington, DC Division Curriculum Developer President & Executive Director Baltimore, MD MOllte Sftepler Austin, TX Council for the Advancement Trlomas A. Nazario President FayWilliall1s of Citizenship Director Consortium of Universities of the Attorney at Law Bethesda. MD Community Legal F.ducation Washington Metropolitan Area Indianapolis, IN Antftony Carroll University of San Francisco Washington. DC HDward Zipser Neill & Company. Inc. School of Law Rosenman. Colin Washington, DC San Francisco. CA New York, NY '.

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