FOSTER PARENTS TRAINING SEMINAR
Development goal
To provide protection, assistances and equal development changes to all children.

Project goal
To increase the knowledge and skills of (candidate) foster parents, mentors and volunteers in the assistance, guidance and care of children placed under protective measures.

Project specifications
The training consists of the following subjects: parenting stiles and strategies; placement and procedures; sexual, physical and emotional abuse; neglecting; abandonment; behavior; depression; suicide tendencies; abuse of children; children of drugs and alcohol addictive parents; positive discipline; communication skills; promotion of responsible and independent behavior in children; stress management and first aid.

LEARN AND EARN YOUTH COMMUNITY PROJECT
Development goal
1.       To stimulate the capacity of individuals to improve the living standards and welfare.
2.       To advocate the awareness and responsibility concerning the livability of the own district.
          (Source: MISOP)

Project goal
The Learn and Earn project aims towards preventing youth delinquency by giving youths an alternative for leisure time and through socially strengthening, by which the safety and livability in neighborhoods will by promoted. 

Project specifications
We learn from experience in the field that hanging around, poor leisure activities, delinquent friends (mostly older ones) and a shortage of basic life skills are often lead to criminal behavior. There’s also a lack of infrastructure and supervised activities in the neighborhoods to facilitate children after school and during working hours of parents. Most parents do not know are not even interested in the daily activities of their children, mostly because they are to busy trying to keep there heads and that of family members above the water. As the title indicates ‘Learn and Earn”, youngsters will Learn a skill and Earn some $$$ for during their participation. Participants will receive a training in Basic Life Skills, go in the field, work on a project for 5 days (2 ½ hours daily), will receive a LAE cap or t-shirt, get a certificate after completing this project. The youngster will receive field guidance from trained personal.  Youths with problematic behavior are identified and along with their parents encouraged to accept social assistance and guidance.

CENTRAL FOR FOSTER FAMILIES
Development goal
To provide protection, assistances and equal development changes to all children.

Project goal
To phase out the shortage of foster families in the Windward Islands and to provide foster children with improved care and guidance.

Project specifications

• To function as a central institute, to recruit, select and guide foster families, mentors and volunteers.
• To establish an office with qualified personnel that can adequately executed the tasks and responsibilities of the Central for Foster Family.
• To promote the publicity of and around foster care in the Windward Islands and the population.
• To educate the community concerning good educational methods and techniques.
• To train and guide foster parents in the care and education of foster children.
• To train and guide volunteers in the assistance of foster children and their parent (biological and foster parents).
• To provide professional guidance to foster parents (foster families) during and after the stay of the foster child.

NETWORK OF ORGANIZATIONS FOR MINOR
Developmental goal
To provide protection, assistances and equal development changes to all children.

Project goal
The objective of the Network of Organizations for Minors is:

• To provide a guidance system, in such a way, that children and youths get more than enough chances to develop to worthy citizens in our society.
• To create a network, of which clients, counselors and the society can noticeably profit. Via structural deliberations, the aid request will be tuned to the client (in the network), after which the guidance or treatment will be determined and adopted by the relevant organizations.

Project specification

• To create possibilities to exchange information, know-how and experience through: workshops, theme-meetings, newsletters and internet.
• To contribute to new initiatives by: initiating courses in new guidance methods and techniques,  promote and stimulate research; support the local and federal youth policy for more cooperation.
• To protect the interest of children and youths by: pointing out bottlenecks and providing/suggesting solutions.
• To provide information, concerning the problem of children and youths by: creating media attention and informing and educating citizens.

Sub- project and activities

• Research of the scope of the youth problem in St. Maarten.
• Compilation of a social map / directory of  St. Maarten, with links to experts in other Windward and Leeward islands.
• Organization of the registration of the aid request and the uniformity in function of better tuning of the social assistance to the aid request.
• Establish a Referral Counter and Central Registration office for youth guidance. 

JOBPLACEMENT PROGRAM
Development goal
1.      To promote the livability and safety in Sint Maarten, by complementary to the resocialization process          increasing the rehabilitation changes of detainees.
2.      To stimulate the individual possibilities to improve the living standards and welfare.

Project goal
A program that could assist ex-offenders in their efforts to break the cycle of recidivism, through an entrepreneurial non-profit organization that simultaneously pursues both a financial and social return on investment (the double bottom lineapproach).

Mission
The mission is to create a community of responsible adults who help one another develop lives of purpose and self sufficiency, through the creation of a program that links job seeking ex-offenders with services and employment seeking businesses in the maintaining sector.

Goal
The goal is to develop a self-supporting outcome driven, job and income creating, non-profit organization. For the workers the goal is - to develop lives of purpose and self-sufficiency. The major components of this program include: job training, employment, career opportunities, counseling and life skills training.

The income generated from dispatching ex-offenders will provide opportunities for more young ex-offenders to enroll in the program.

Partners
Partners in this project, namely the Foundation Judiciary Institutes Windward Islands, the St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business Development Foundation, will actively plan and work together to create a “low barreire / laag drempelige”, transparent and integrated social program, accessible to all ex-offenders. This partnership is an excellent representation of organizations in the area that have an impact on rehabilitation of ex-offenders and workforce development. The goal is to continue to expand partnership to include all of such agencies and organizations, including businesses and economic development organizations.
 
In the near future a business plan will be produced with the framework needed as we develop and integrate into the daily functions of each partnering agency and organization the goals, teamwork, policies, procedures and focus which will lead to the seamless program we envision for our target group. The plan has to provide an outline of the work to be done over the next (three) year(s) to arrive at a fully functional and integrated program by the end of year three.  It provides the focus needed for a program that has to build on the strong will of individuals, especially ex-offenders, in order to overcome possible barriers the society will put up. A great deal of the work in the years ahead lies in formalizing structures and processes.

FROM DELINQUENT TO ENTREPRENEUR
Development goal

• To promote the livability and feeling of safety in Sint Maarten, by complementary to the resocialization process increasing the rehabilitation changes of detainees.
• To stimulate the individual possibilities to improve the living standards and welfare.
• To stimulate the feeling of community by creating more possibilities for direct participation in the   economy of Sint Maarten.

Project goal
To drive back repeat offending through breaking through the vicious circle of the “criminality-ladder / criminaliteits-trap” by giving ex-detainees the change to build a meaningful and significant live in a legal way.

Project specification
P.V.N.A. 2006-2007: “Detainees return to society after their detention. When their return has not been prepared and guided sufficiently, there is a big chance that their reintegration fails and that the detainee return to his old behavior and habits and criminal patterns. With other words: a successful resocialization course reduces the change of repeating the offence. But also because of another reason resocialization earns our attention.: every detainee deserves a second change to develop him / herself. Personal development, development of a feeling of self-respect, education, job-training and the promotion of self discipline, could contribute in a successful reintegration”.

Starting and running a new business is a proven way to create own opportunities without the willingness of a lot of person, and to take their own future in their hands. After all, employers in general are not very exited to employ ex-prisoners.

CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES REHABILITATION PROGRAM (C.I.R.P.)
Development goal
To promote the livability and feeling of safety in the Netherlands Antilles c.q. Sint Maarten, through complementary to the Netherlands-Antilles Law increase the rehabilitation changes of detainees.

Project specification
P.V.N.A. 2006-2007: “Detainees return to society after their detention. When their return has not been prepared and guided sufficiently, their is a big chance that their reintegration fails and that the detainee return to his old behavior and habits and criminal patterns. With other words: a successful resocialization course reduces the change of repeating the offence”.

ELECTRONIC SUPERVISON
Development goal
The application of Electronic Supervision (Dutch: Electronisch Toezicht, E.T.) as a alternative sanction form for the Windward Islands aims towards promoting the livability and feeling of safety in the Netherlands Antilles c.q. Sint Maarten, through complementary to the Netherlands-Antilles Law increase the pursuit capacity of offences and increase rehabilitation changes of detainees.

Project goal
The electronic supervision as alternative sanction among others aims towards alleviating the shortage of cell capacity as well as creating better chances on social reintegration of ex-prisoners in the society. This should result in the reduction of stigmatization and decrease of repetition of offences.

The Electronic Surveillance Program (ESP) is an alternative to being housed in a facility. It is based on the use of electronic transmitting and receiving devices to monitor the location of an inmate at specified times.
This program allows certain sentenced offenders to serve their time at home while being monitored electronically through the use of an ankle bracelet. This allows individuals to maintain family support, responsibly become involved in appropriate treatment, and continue employment while benefiting from the monitoring and supervision provided by the program.