Description

Activities and Lessons to help incarcerated offenders rethink behaviors that led to incarceration by reexamining the choices they made at each stage of their development, with guides to setting goals for their time inside. Activities include a lesson on Reparenting and personal responsibility; Child Custody & Dependency Laws that impact the children and families of incarcerated offenders; Reaching Out to Family to build and repaif family relationships and prepare for return to the family; Talking to Children About Prison or Jail to explain carime and incarceration to children according to their age and ability to understand; Visiting Inside: Keep it Positive, to help offenders and their family members plan for visitation as provided in various facilities; and Reuniting with Your Family and Community to help offenders prepare for reentry from the time thay enter prison or jail.

Supplements include Think About It - Critical Thinking information to help students analyze and reason any subject matter; Family History & Patterns that helps students examine their own family history, family roles, and functions and dysfunctions in their own family; The Power of Story: Writing from Life to gui9de offender students through writing their life experiences and memories as a tood for personal awareness and growth.