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Our female facility offers a variety of gender specific programs. These programs educate, encourage, and empower the offenders to re-enter the community with a positive outlook along with becoming a productive member in society. Faith Based Initiatives: Volunteers from the community address spiritual issues for women using a variety of faith-based studies; In addition several local churches provide weekly religious services.
Sacred Women - Celebrate Recovery New Life Behavior - Purpose Driven Life - I Want a Change Search for Significance
CASA: Faith based twelve-step program. Chaplin Services
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers” . The Metropolitan Health Department provides:
Community Education
Anger Management Beauty and Beyond: A program that builds self-esteem by addressing personal appearance and hygiene issues.
Work Release:
The Work Release program provides
offenders the opportunity to be gainfully employed, or to continue in
educational or vocational training.
Educational Programs: GED, ESL, Job Skills, and VOE are
classes which are available to offenders. HEEL: Offenders participate in the dog handlers program which is four months in length. The split their time between obedience classes with the dogs and working at animal control.
Mentoring Resources: It is our goal for community resources to become mentors for women being released and work with them in the community for one year. This is part of our re-entry effort.
Mother Child Visitation: Gives an opportunity for the offender to keep or re-establish the natural parenting role.
Parenting: Offenders are taught physical, emotional, and social skills intended to improve their interaction with their children.
Culinary: This program is designed to provide the offender with better parenting skills and a trade in Culinary Arts. Health/HIV Education: Weekly classes give offenders the knowledge to make good decisions about their own health and that of their families.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and Al-anon: AA/NA and ALANON meetings provide knowledge and peer support. These 12 step meetings educate offenders about the destructive cycle of alcohol and drug abuse.
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program: Offenders learn how to eat health, how to provide a healthy diet for their family on a budget and the importance of exercise.
Prenatal Education: Teaches life skills and provides a continuum of care into the community for Mother and Child.
Cosmetology: To teach the offender the necessary skills to obtain licensure and competency in entry level positions.
Treatment Programs: Healing Journey
is a state
licensed alcohol and drug treatment center operated by the · Women’s Issues in Addiction · ASI & DSM-IV-TR Assessments · Orientation prior to treatment · 12 Step emphasis · Relationships/Boundaries · Trauma Survivor · Rational Emotive Therapy · Parenting · Spirituality · Employment Skills · Nutrition · Relapse Prevention · Re-Entry Community Resources · GED Education · After Care Program · Family Education Classes The disease of addiction affects a person physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. Someone who is addicted uses drugs without thinking of the consequences, such as criminal activity; problems with health, money, relationships and poor performance at work or school. |
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