The Amish Youth Vision Project
This program is offered through the Town of Shipshewana, Indiana, as a service to Old Order Amish youth, young adults, and their parents.
Mission Statement
The Amish Youth Vision Project proposes to lower alcohol and drug use risk behaviors among Old Order Amish youth; and to strengthen systems of family support, by creating a model intervention program for these risk behaviors. Such a program will be structured to include Amish input in its initiation and planning, and primary responsibility must be held by the Amish community in its introduction and maintenance.
Read more about the roots of this project and how it developed on the Project Background page.
Vision Project Goals
- Alcohol/drug education and awareness for young adults and youth, and their parents
- Alcohol/drug prevention programs for those youth involved with these substances
- Mentor program for Amish youth (Amish mentors for Amish teens)
- Education programs about Amish youth for law enforcement
- Research on alcohol and drug use and abuse among Amish youth
- Development of a service model for communities working with the Amish and other Plain People
And the Future...
The Vision Project responds as needs are identified by the Amish. As a people of faith, their prayerful support guides the project. We hope to develop model programs that can be replicated in communities throughout the United States and Canada, by those working with this strong and vibrant people.
Vision Project Leaders
Norm Kauffmann, Ed.D., Co-Director
Director of Special Projects
Town of Shipshewana
345 N. Morton
P.O. Box 486
Shipshewana, IN 46565
260/768-4743
manager@shipshewana.org
Jim Cates, Ph.D., ABPP, Co-Director
Diplomate in Clinical Psychology
Cates & Associates, Inc.
2200 Lake Ave., Suite 260
Fort Wayne, Indiana
P.O. Box 5391
Fort Wayne, IN 46895-5391
260/493-3980 (local to Fort Wayne)
800/483-4364 (toll-free nationwide)
cates@fwi.com
Linda L. Graham, MSN, APRN, BC
Vision Project Coordinator
Associate Professor of Nursing
Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499
260/481-6278
graham@ipfw.edu
The Vision Project relies on the input of the Amish. They prefer that names not be included publicly, and we reluctantly comply. However, such merit as this Project possesses would not exist without the guidance and direction they provide, and we are truly grateful for their support.
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