Self-Help and Parenting
Self-Help and Parenting
Self-Help and Parenting
- This is a 29 week program, held twice a week, that consists of two components (1) houses of Healing and (2) Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), which is instructed by an Administrative Social Worker. Individuals are encouraged to openly understand their potential flaws in adaptive behavior, communication, self-care, social skills, functional academics, community use, as well as health and safety. It embeds skills related to making positive choices, following a schedule, initiating activities appropriate to a setting, completing necessary tasks, seeking assistance when needed and resolving problems in familiar new and possibly difficult situations. The ACEs program provides additional services such as parenting skills, teaching the importance of a father's role in a child's life from inception, establishing structure, stability, and family placement. It prepares participants to make logically responsible decisions relative to reunification plans.
Critical Stage
Self-Help and Parenting
Self-Help and Parenting
- Critical Stage is a twelve-week course that provides different methods in which to occupy an individual's time productively. The goal is to change the participant's habits and provide a more sensible outlook through constructive activities. Activities including writing, reading, drawing,provide individual's and exercise with a greater quality of life, clearing their minds and helping in the struggle to beat addiction.
Personal Enrichment
Self-Help and Parenting
- Personal Enrichment is a fifteen-week program which aids individuals with communication skills while providing the knowledge required to conduct oneself properly through listening, interpretation, positive behavior and speaking in public. Furthermore, it reinforces responsibility in all aspects of life, especially those choices which once resulted in negative consequences and offers opportunities for personal fulfillment. Most individuals who complete this course clearly demonstrate a recognition and affirmative acceptance of personal responsibility for their criminal conduct.
Preparing,Transition and Resources
- Preparing, Transition, and Resources is a twelve week program that's designed to prepare inmates a meaningful transition back into society with the proper resources. The aim is to provide persons with the necessary tools to ensure their successful re-entry back into their communities after being released from prison. PTR further prepares inmates by teaching tools such as cognitive thinking, problem solving, proper focusing, withstanding peer pressure, carrying out simple tasks, learning to work within normal limits and recognizing/managing triggers.
Victim Awareness
- victim awareness is a twelve-week program that provides insight on the harm caused by crime to the victim, their families, the community and society as a whole. It allows individuals to face the devastatingly irreparable harm they've created..Inmates are guided through the process of learning empathy while highlighting the psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual damage caused to a victim's self-image. The objective is to emphasize the participants responsibility for his or her criminal behavior, the failures or omissions on his or her part that occurred and what, if anything, may be done to halt the furtherance of an abhorrent situation for which he must show accountability.
Post Conviction
- post conviction is a twelve to fifteen week program that provides insightful knowledge about criminal proceedings, developmental skills in reading, writing and interpreting case law and court rules.