Back On Track, Inc.

Back on Track confronts, educates and supports at-risk teenagers through a curriculum designed to motivate and reinforce individual ability and desire to make socially conscious choices. Back on Track believes that consistent, positive reinforcement provides the most salient motivation to change.

Description:
Back on Track provides Skills for Responsible Thinking (SRT) and Adoelscent Anger Management Program (AAMP), two comprehensive, community-based programs for 13 to 18-year-olds who engaging in risky behaviors such as crime, substance use, or violence. Using proven techniques, Program facilitators motivate students in a peer-group setting to develop alternative thinking and coping skills that lead to behavior change. Programs are designed to:

? Enhance intrinsic motivation
o Motivational interviewing reduces ambivalence to sustained change
? Identify the influence of anti-social attitudes
o How beliefs influence behavior
o Learning to say ?no? to peer pressure
? Create victim awareness
o Role playing scenarios around moral dilemmas stimulate consideration of victim impact, social responsibility, and the value of a formalized justice system
? Develop relapse prevention strategies to manage risky situations
? Provide post-graduate relapse prevention plan review and support

Students? parents, caregivers and providers are also trained and encouraged to reinforce students? continuous use of new skills in everyday environments and situations.

History:
Dr. Kirsten W. Milliken founded Back on Track, a landmark community-based program in Portland in 2004. Programs are now offered in Windham, Biddeford, Westbrook and South Portland. Back on Track has graduated almost 60% of its enrolled students. Three graduates are now attending college.
In 2008 Back on Track dissolved as an independent agency and became part of the Portland West nonprofit organization.

Contact people:

Kirsten Milliken, Program Director, (phone), (email) Leslie Lennig, Program Manager, (phone), (email)

Address:

181 Brackett St Portland, ME 04102 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.backontrackme.org

Directions:

This is located near Reiche School For maps or information, please see http://www.portlandmaine.worldweb.com/Transportation/PublicTransit

Miscellaneous Information

This agency has United Way funded programs
	No
The agency places volunteers in these categories:
	ages 15 - 18, Court Mandated, Groups, Adults

Last updated on December 3, 2008