Ray Donahue - Principal Afflerbaugh-Paige Camp (Juvenile Detention - La Verne)
This week, Praying210 has chosen Principal Ray Donahue to support and encourage through our thoughts and prayers.
Ray Donahue
Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige
Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige is an LA County juvenile probation camp located in La Verne, California that houses male wards ages 13-18 for sentences of 6-18 months. While incarcerated the wards are required to attend the Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige high school, an LA County Office of Education high school. MASJ students led a weekly video poetry and media literacy workshops for youth in Camps AP for three years.
Los Angeles Juvenile Court Schools
Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige is just one of many of the Los Angeles County Office of Education's Juvenle Court Schools. Ray Donahue is principal of the one right here in north La Verne. Through his leadership and direction, Ray Donahue servers the 150+ youth through a number of different programs and services.
LACOE's Juvenile Court Schools:
Offer individualized teaching and support to young people who have been removed from their homes and schools due to delinquency or residential placements.
Provide educational services to at least 1,800 students daily at 13 sites that include juvenile halls, probation camps, treatment centers and group homes.
Are fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Credits and diplomas earned in JCS are accepted at all high schools, colleges and universities.
Have the primary mission of improving the literacy skills of all students, as these skills are the gateway to learning, employment and full engagement as a citizen.
Ensure that students have full access to the state's standards-based curriculum that will lead to high school graduation. Provide the special support students need to succeed in meeting the curriculum standards.
Juvenile Court School students:
Most enter the system with serious gaps in their education and poor academic skills. They spend an average of three to six months in JCS.
About 40 percent enter JCS reading at or below the fourth-grade level and are functionally illiterate. Most will become independent readers before they leave JCS.
At least one-third have learning and other disabilities.
At least 30 to 40 percent are English learners.
While we are praying for Ray Donahue this week, let us think on this . . .
A Call to Pray for our Youth at Risk
Father, we understand that teaching is more than an occupation. It is a gift from you. (Rom 12:7) First of all we want to thank you for the many dedicated teachers and educators that serve the children of our community and especially those at Afflerbaugh-Paige Camp. . We ask you to strengthen them with your wisdom, counsel, knowledge and power. (Isaiah 11:2) Where our educational system is functioning ineffectively, we’re asking for your help. Give grace, courage and creativity to our policy makers, administrators and educators. Help them to make decisions that will provide students with the most effective teachers and educational resources possible.
Father, thank you for raising up leaders like Ray that have a vision and a strategy to adopt and cover the needs of the youth at this school. Your word teaches us that we are to pray for all those in authority and we know that teachers and educators have a place of authority in the lives of our students. (1 Timothy 2:1-4) Raise up a movement of prayer that will touch every school and every educator across our community. All of this we ask in your name, the name of Jesus, and for the sake of the children of our city.
Encourage Ray this week by leaving him a note below. Let him know you appreciate him and are praying for him this week.