Events

Lodge Golf Scramble: June 19th, 2010.  1 PM at Liberty Hills

Mad River Lodge Thinks Out-of-the-Box for Education

     Mad River Lodge #161, West Liberty, Ohio has recently changed its college scholarship program to a financial aid program that assists juvenile offenders at the Central Ohio Youth Center (COYC) to earn their GED. “Our $500 scholarship was able to buy about a semester’s worth of books for one student,” explained Larry Lance, secretary of Mad River Lodge. “However, with that same amount, we are now able to sponsor 12½ students in the GED program. It just might be that this could be the deciding factor that helps these young people to turn their lives around. Wouldn’t that be awesome!”

     COYC is a secure, 38-bed district juvenile detention facility located in Marysville, Ohio. The Correctional Treatment Unit (CTU) is a 90-day program for chronic juvenile offenders. Residents are required to attend year-round educational classes. COYC instituted a General Educational Development (GED) Testing component into its school program in October 2003. Juveniles sentenced to the CTU can prepare for and take the GED test during their stay.

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