Returning Her Home

Women are categorically becoming one of the largest populations that are incarcerated at alarming rates. I know this for fact, because I was one of them . At that moment, I had a choice “let time do me”, or “I do time my way”. Like John Lewis, I got into good trouble and did my time my way. I used a strengths based approach to doing my time and focus on identifying assets and building on those to assets to promote positive change. To accomplish this , I turned inward and looked at resilience, transformation, empowerment and civic engagement.

Each women that comes into our supportive housing will be asked to identify their positive qualities or strengths. We also ask them their weaknesses and draw a correlation with evidence base practices to create a Good Lives Model (GLM), which is a theoretical framework that works from a strengths based perspective. This framework allows the case managers and women use constructive and collaborative ways to work together and help them achieve prosocial and meaningful lives. 

Each One ,Teach One, is our motto.