Take a group of concerned citizens, dedicated law enforcement officials, caring state employees, and some political help. Mix them together with the need to help offender’s pay their community back for the harm they’ve caused and you get Operation Payback, a system designed to help offenders complete their community service hours by repairing and repainting the very communities they helped vandalize.

Lesson Resources:

Awareness

• What is local government?
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  Raising Awareness - Discussion starters
  for Operation Payback

Comprehension

• Evaluating Evidence
  
  
• Providing good resources
  
  
• Understanding Operation Payback

Engagement

• Assessing Student Experience
  
  
• Examples of Engagement in Operation Payback:
  
  1:28 – 2:15  Asking for help
  2:16 – 3:41  Pulling together the resources
  4:00 – 6:10  Running the program
  6:11 – End   Measuring the impact
  
  

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