Since 2005, Twin Oaks Juvenile Development, Inc. has partnered with the Florida Department of Transportation to provide youth with an opportunity to gain real world work experience in a manner that facilitates prompting, redirection, and feedback from a supervisor in a controlled environment.  This approach allows youth to practice appropriate workplace skills and behaviors in an environment that embraces sub-par performance as teachable moments.  The work environment created mimics that of a real world setting which includes delegation of responsibilities, accountability, productivity and efficiency. 

In order to accomplish the goals of this project, Twin Oaks not only employs job-specific experienced individuals to serve as crew leaders, we also ensure that they are equipped with the characteristics and skill set of a teacher/instructor.  This crew leader formally evaluates the youth daily, providing feedback that can be incorporated into external evaluation systems such as the supervision plans and credit earning courses in high school.