The ARC program (Advocate, Rehabilitate and Connect): This program is borne out of the need to improve/decongest/reduce the recidivism rate in our correctional facilities. The advocacy piece is to address the human rights issues in correctional facilities. Rehabilitation has to do with helping the inmates to address mental, physical, emotional and health issues associated with being incarcerated as well as transition issues after being released from a correctional facility. The Connect aspect of the program is connecting the inmates with resources that will help them adjust to their environment after leaving the facility.
Rehabilitation has to do with helping the inmates to address mental, physical, emotional and health issues associated with being incarcerated as well as transition issues after being released from a correctional facility.
Entrepreneurship and Skill Acquisition Initiative
- Entrepreneurship and Skill Acquisition Initiative (ESA): is to help those who have acquired skills while in incarceration to have the necessary tools/financial assistance and entrepreneurial knowledge to set up their business within the community.
Drug Addiction Initiative
Drug Addiction Initiative (DAI): is to help those who are struggling with addiction overcome their addiction
AWARDS project
AWARDS project (Action for Writing, Art, Reading, Dancing, and Singing): The arts are used with inmates, in correctional facilities, for a variety of purposes: to heal, educate, ‘reform’; or to improve self-esteem, emotional literacy, and aid socialization by providing creative opportunities for self-understanding and expression. Based on statistics from various research carried out in the US, Arts programs in correctional facilities help reduce recidivism and disciplinary problems. This creative therapy program is designed to help the inmates cope with incarceration.
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