{"id":917714,"date":"2020-08-25T16:29:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T21:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=917714"},"modified":"2020-08-26T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:29:09","slug":"hope-academy-finishes-tiny-house-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=917714","title":{"rendered":"HOPE Academy finishes &#8216;Tiny House&#8217; project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/08\/David-Peters-with-Tiny-House-082420-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-917715\" \/>TYLER &#8211;There may have been a few set backs along the way, but male juvenile offenders, in the Juvenile Services Vocational Program, have the building of a &#8216;tiny house.&#8217; Ross Worley, Director of Juvenile Services for Smith County told KTBB on Tuesday, &#8220;It kind of took us a little time because we have kids coming and kids going, but, one our big parts of our classes is construction&#8230;It was an opportunity to teach the kids all of the mechanics and the process of building a home. So, you learn how to put windows in, doors in, how to do floors, how to do walls, how to do sheet rock and all of those things.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/08\/Ross-Worley-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-917716\" \/>This was a project with the HOPE Academy, a residential program started back in 2015. The completed tiny house cost about $11,000 total, but Juvenile Services received about $5,000 of that in donations. Worley continued, &#8220;Some of these kids have never picked up and swung a hammer before. So to go through the process of putting up a wall&#8230;How you put it up, why you put it up and the building process of doing that.&#8221; David Peters, who retired from owning a construction business before going to work for the Smith County Juvenile Services Department, spearheaded the building campaign. Since the start of the H.O.P.E. Academy, there have been a total of 77 residents. Six kids are currently in the program, which can typically house 12. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211;There may have been a few set backs along the way, but male juvenile offenders, in the Juvenile Services Vocational Program, have the building of a &#8216;tiny house.&#8217; Ross Worley, Director of Juvenile Services for Smith County told KTBB on Tuesday, &#8220;It kind of took us a little time because we have kids coming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=917714\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HOPE Academy finishes &#8216;Tiny House&#8217; project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 05:15:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917718,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917714\/revisions\/917718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}