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Redemption Hill
Redemption Hill is a timely wake-up call. The residential programme was created by Steve Boxer and his team of youth and social workers. The series follows his efforts to help the teens - who, along with their parents, consented to taking part in the programme - before the adult criminal system intervenes and puts them behind bars. Can an intensive stretch behind bars change their bad behaviour? Is it too late to develop their self-esteem and encourage respect for others? Will their parents get back the sons and daughters they always hoped for, or the troubled teens they love but can't control?
Steve Boxer, the Warden, has a strong background in outdoor environment and recreation programming, providing services to a number of schools, youth groups, government agencies and private companies. His success rates working with at-risk youth have been recognised by CYFS, New Zealand Police as well as by Youth Court Judges, Her Honour Judge H M Simpson, and Principal Youth Court Judge, Judge A J Beecroft. Producer Glenn Sims says, ‘When we originally put out the call for participants we had an overwhelming response from New Zealand parents struggling to deal with their children’s issues. For many, Redemption Hill was their last ditch attempt to help their children before they reached the age of maturity.’
Redemption Hill is the extraordinary journey of these ten teenagers, as through a course of discipline and adventure activities they experience the ups and downs of getting their lives back on track. It is also a snapshot of a wider problem facing New Zealand in 2006’, says Sims, ‘these are teenagers from a new generation, a generation faced head-on with issues around alcohol and drug abuse, lack of respect for authority, and anger-management problems.”
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