The course covers the legal and social consequences of drug use, gang involvement, hate crimes, drunk driving, truancy, graffiti, and other issues. Through field trips to youth incarceration facilities, mock trials and other means, the students get personal experience of those results. Over 12,000 single parents receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families get GED classes 2 days per week, and work-site experience 3 days per week. The 300 staff members come from several agencies and community organizations, and make up teams of teachers, caseworkers, counselors and employment specialists. They offer comprehensive training in academic and social subjects and job readiness.
Graduates can return for help, when needed.
But they still devote many hours to a variety of community service activities. Once a month a child and parents arrive for a night in the VIP quarters. Next morning, a host pilot outfits the child in a flight suit. During a tour of the squadron the commander gives the child a set of wings withthe child's name. The child also receives squadron patches, a flight cap and a scarf, and is photographed in the cockpit of a jet plane with his or her name on it.