Pound Pup Legacy

Unique Programs

• The Career Tech Administrative Office Technology program

• Advanced Job Training:  This program provides post-secondary employment skills instruction to inmates in the field of:  Drafting and Design, Personal Computers for Business and Hazardous Waste Operations.

• Responsible Family Life Skills is a three phase, 45-hour, all-inclusive parenting program.  Phase I centers around individual responsibility, communication, sharing and interaction, giving back to the community, the impact of crime, community justice culture and morality, the cycle of poverty and child support and paternity.  Phase II represents the core of the program and concentrates on the history of family, child development, substance abuse, discipline, violence prevention, effective communication and grief and separation issues.  Phase III offers a student manual that includes realistic scenarios of struggles they may encounter when released. 

  is designed to develop employability skills, enhance proficiency in academics as well as abilities essential for reentry and initial employment in business.  Students will be trained in keyboarding, Widows, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Desktop Publisher.

Inmate Programs

Community Service

• Train dogs for Pilot Dog Program
• Trash pickup for the Ohio Department of Transportation
• Goodwill Industries
• Montgomery County Parks litter pickup
• Build houses with Habitat for Humanity
• Handle mailings for the Greater Dayton Humane Society
• Train dogs for the Greater Dayton Humane Society
• Button assembly for various organizations
• Work with Montgomery County Children's Services
• Assist Dayton Ronald McDonald House with grounds keeping through the vocational horticulture class
• City of Dayton recycling program

Vocational

• Building maintenance
• Information communications occupations
• Work and family living skills
• Landscape and horticulture
• Baking

Academic

• GED
• Adult Basic Education
• Literacy unit
• Peer tutoring
• Pre-Release
• Fast track GED
• Sinclair Community College, college credit classes
• Vocational class: hazardous waste removal, asbestos abatement, construction surveying basics, entrepreneurship