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Trial Model: The trial model selected will include youth volunteers for the following roles: • Defense Attorneys • Prosecuting Attorneys • Jurors • Clerks • Bailiffs Adult volunteers will serve the following role in the courtroom: • Judge Other youth and adult volunteer roles will include: • Mentors • Training Facilitators • Advisory Board /Task Force Members • Monitors • Recruiters, Marketers, and Fund - raisers • Parent Advocates (Adult volunteers would do this role.) Sentencing/Consequence Guidelines will be based on the Restorative Justice, Intergenerational, and 40 Developmental Assets Models: These models will serve as the guiding principles for the Sentencing/Consequence Guidelines. Restorative Justice Model: Restorative Justice measures attempt to repair harm caused by one person to another and to the community, so order is restored for everyone. This model views youth as resources, rather than problems. Restorative measures try to intervene on problems rather than more traditional methods of punishment. Teen Court will facilitate a process for youth offenders to learn from their mistakes, reconcile, and resolve problems. Intergenerational Model: Adults in the community will be integrated into the completion of the offenders consequences. The goal will be to engage that young person with positive adult influences and role models in the community. 40 Developmental Assets: Sentencing/Consequence guidelines will promote external and internal developmental assets of the offender. The external assets that will be promoted include: support, empowerment, boundaries, exceptions, and use of time. The internal developmental assets being targeted will focus on values, educational commitment, positive identity, and social competencies. Page 177