The Advocate Education Program--Teacher Corps for Corrections (AEP-TCC) was designed to
educate students and other program participants in how to deal with problems and potentials
of "conflict youth," as they were "apprehended" in the community or school system, as they
became involved with the court and correctional systems, and as they were returned to the
community after these experiences. Nearly all activities in the program were under the
direction of the Local Education Agency (LEA), which was incorporated in 1972. The LEA was a
citizen participation advisory group made up of delegates and representatives from agencies
in the community that deal with conflict adolescents. Its purpose was to administer the
AEP-TCC; to exercise fiscal, policy and operational control over the AEP-TCC; to work for
the economic, educational, sociological and psychological welfare and betterment of the
community and of individuals, groups and families in the community.
