North Dakota Youth Correctional Center: An Exploration of a Multi-Faceted Campus
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Abstract
The campus of the North Dakota Youth
Correctional Center (NDYCC) lies
nestled between the Heart River to the
east and the scenic buttes to the south.
Just outside the city center of Mandan,
North Dakota. Due to a disconnected
campus, NDYCC is presently struggling
to implement a new treatment entitled,
Educating for Quality by Understanding
Interpersonal Potential (EQUIP), which
is a treatment approach focusing
on cognitive restructuring, anger
management, social skills, and social
decision-making. My project will
address this problem through the
re-design of the campus masterplan
and the design of a new cottage
prototype. To further enable NDYCC’s
treatment theory to reach the next
level of effectiveness, the theoretical
premises of my thesis project will also
focus on the interpersonal potential of
the facility’s occupants, the troubled
adolescents of North Dakota, through
the clear organization and integration
of residence, education, and incentive
programs.