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Project Flex receives recognition for its innovative approach to promoting the physical and mental well-being of incarcerated youth, earning coverage in local news outlets.
Sports program works to inspire kids in the juvenile justice system
Read the original published article here (The Center Square) – An outreach program is helping troubled youths envision a better future. Project FLEX is a Northern Illinois University outreach program for kids between the ages of 14 and 20 who are serving time in a...
More to life? Project FLEX participants discuss how NIU program changed them
Read the original published article here Different situations. Different backgrounds. Different races. Different traumas. Different struggles. Yet the four young men facing the audience in the Sky Room of the Holmes Student Center do share one reality – and, for many,...
NIU ‘Project FLEX’ offers fitness and college experiences to incarcerated Illinois youth
Read the original published article on Northern Public Radio's website here Several times a week, a team of NIU graduate students led by professors Zach Wahl-Alexander and Jenn Jacobs bring physical activities to three juvenile justice youth centers in northern...
217 Today: Northern Illinois University professors provide sports activities to incarcerated teens
Listen to today’s deep dive to learn more about a project that aims to reduce recidivism among incarcerated juveniles in Illinois. Listen here
Project FLEX brings sports with a purpose to teens in Illinois juvenile justice system
Read the original published article on CBS Chicago's website here CHICAGO (CBS) -- Playing with a purpose – that is the motto of an athletic group from Northern Illinois University that hopes to improve recidivism rates for young adults. The team gears up and heads...