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 * LAKISHA’S PROBLEM SITUATION (Residential/Female)**

Lakisha, 17, recently was charged of violation of probation and disorderly conduct. She is picked up by Juvenile Probation and placed in a detention center to await a dispositional hearing. Lakisha is extremely upset and anxious because she doesn’t know what the judge will do to her. This is her second stay in detention; the last time, the judge warned her that she might end up in a long-term facility for girls.

Lakisha knows a couple of the girls who were in detention at the same time she was. She dislikes one of them very much, so she tries to avoid her to keep out of trouble. One girl Tasha, 16, is there following charges of aggravated assault and terroristic threats; she had gotten into a fight with a girl at school over some boy. Tasha is angry because she didn’t think she deserves to be in detention. She thinks the other girl should have been locked up instead for starting things. Tasha is very defiant and disrespectful to staff and gets into a number of altercations with other residents.

Shanique, 17, is the girl whom Tasha had the fight at school. She is picked up for drug charges and is sent to the same detention center where Tasha and Lakisha are staying. Before she was arrested, Tasha had threatened Shanique that if she ever got locked up, Tasha would get her.

One night, Tasha and Shanique start going at it and Shanique calls Tasha a derogatory name This sets off Tasha, who then calls Shanique a name and says that she that sleeps around and steals boyfriends.” In seconds, the other residents gather round to see if there’s going to be a fight. Tasha tells Lakisha to grab Shanique’s arms and hold her back so she can beat Shanique. What should Lakisha say or do?


 * 1) What should Lakisha do?

__Get involved in the fight__Stay out of the fight __Can’t decide__

__2. What if Lakisha has her court hearing the next day to determine if she is going home or to a residential placement? Then what should Lakisha do?__

Get involved in the fight__Stay out of the fight__ Can’t decide

3. What if Lakisha knows that she is being transferred to a long term facility the next day? Then what should Lakisha do?

__Get involved in the fight__Stay out of the fight __Can’t decide__

__4. Let’s say that Shanique was after Lakisha’s boyfriend, too, before she got locked up. Then what should Lakisha do?__

Get involved in the fight__Stay out of the fight__ Can’t decide

5. Let’s change things a bit. What if Shanique is the one getting out tomorrow and tells Lakisha that she’s going to be with her man while Lakisha is locked up? Throughout the evening, Shanique taunts Lakisha about this. Then what should Lakisha do?

__Get involved in the fight__Stay out of the fight __Can’t decide__

__6. Let’s change things a different way. Shanique broke Lakisha and her boyfriend up before they ended up in detention and Latasha is now going after Shanique. Then what should Lakisha do?__

Get involved in the fight__Stay out of the fight__ Can’t decide