PR04-003

Date:

February 26, 2004

 
Young Middle School Students to Graduate From Sheriff’s Office G.R.E.A.T. Program
 

The seventh grade class at Jean Childs Young Middle School will receive special honors tomorrow after completing the thirteen-week Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) program at their school.

The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, which teaches G.R.E.A.T, will host tomorrow’s graduation ceremony in the school gymnasium. The program is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m.

Gang Resistance Education and Training is sponsored by the United States Office of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The program is taught throughout the United States by specially trained law enforcement officers. G.R.E.A.T. teaches students of the consequences of joining a gang, while giving them positive, uplifting encouragement in order to become model citizens of their community.

The Fulton County Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 64, provided funding for the program which was used to purchase student handbooks, incentives, and other materials necessary for teaching G.R.E.A.T.

Graduate students attending tomorrow’s ceremony will receive a G.R.E.A.T. t-shirt and a personalized G.R.E.A.T. “Certificate of Accomplishment”. Representatives from the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office and the Fraternal Order of Police will be in attendance at tomorrow’s event.

Jean Childs Young Middle School is located at 3116 Benjamin E. Mays Drive in Southwest Atlanta.

For more information, please contact Lieutenant Clarence Huber at (404) 730-4148. Lieutenant Huber can also be reached on his digital pager at (404) 742-6798.