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The
AFTER-CARE" programs of
Catholic Services at the Washtenaw County Jail.
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Assist citizens of Washtenaw County who are retuning home from a Michigan Prison. Mentor/ Coach Needed: The Michigan Prisoner ReEntry Initiative (MPRI) seeks adults to mentor returning citizens under the supervision of Washtenaw County Parole and the MPRI. Attend our next
For details call Erin Moran at (734) 929-6509 or email This training is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about the community coach (mentor) program. We are calling upon members of the community to give their care and experience in coaching a returning citizen through a period of the first three to six months of re-entry back into the community. A group of persons or an individual person can be a MENTOR / Community Coach by making a regular phone call or going out for coffee. MPRI - Michigan Prisoner Re-entry Initiative
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Persons released from jail or prison seeking support
may contact the Parish Social Ministry Office at St. Francis of Assisi
Catholic
Church, 2150 Frieze Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Phone: 734-821-2121.
See the Social Minstry
Website. We try to offer social service networking
& assistance with:
-- transportation search; -- employment search; -- food/meals search; -- shelter/housing search; -- HELP with Budgeting Strategies; -- preparing their Income Tax Return; -- Christmas gifts. -- Find several other projects & programs listed on this web page below for: Drugs & Alcohol, Employment & Mentoring Ex-Offenders. |
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In the past, Washtenaw County has had the highest recidivism rate in the state of Michigan. The most recent survey found that 76% of those coming from prison back to our county end up returning to prison within two years. It's this kind of challenge that gave rise to The Michigan Prisoner ReEntry Initiative (MPRI). The MPRI program has now been up and running in Washtenaw County for just over a year. The success of the MPRI program is a result of the government/community collaborative of public and private agencies that must to work together in partnership for returning citizens to be successful. We need your help. ... ... We hope that you, or some representatives from your congregation or community organization, will join us. MPRI successes include:
Rob Carpenter, Friends of the Master. |
Mary King, Community Coordinator - Washtenaw MPRI
(734-327-9717) ,
(FYI: The first prisoner to come through the MPRI program completely for Washtenaw County was released 2/12/2007.)
Trainings explain our Volunteer Driver program and requirements, and, include testimonies by volunteers who have provided transportation, and a MPRI participant who experienced the difference between taking a bus home and getting picked up by a MPRI Volunteer Driver. There will also be opportunities to discuss and practice responses to potential challenges and opportunities.
Please help us spread the word by telling others who may be interested in joining the MPRI team.
MPRI - Michigan Prisoner Re-entry Initiative
www.michpri.com
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See: www.csswashtenaw.org/mpri/ |
Are You Going to Prison?
Would You Like To?
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You can make all the difference in the life of a person paroled from prison, returning to our area, by joining a team of trained mentors that help provide for the daily support and friendship needs that often make the difference between surviving on the outside and returning to a life of crime and then to prison.
The Office of Restorative Justice Lansing Diocese is sponsoring a diocesan wide effort to find and train volunteers from our parish to become ex-offender mentors. The "Michigan Prisoner Re-entry Initiative" progam is starting & our local government services are prepared to help provide for the needs of parolees returning to our area of Washtenaw County, but, they cannot provide the daily support and friendship that will often make the difference. You can make all the difference by joining a team of trained mentors.
A mentor team (of at least 30 members, both men & women) will be established for service in our County. Each mentor in the mentor group would be trained to work as a team member with other mentors and would commit to a specific task in assisting the ex-offenter in his/her transition. All mentors will go through a thorough training done by experienced mentors in our diocese and the Department of Corrections and Michigan Works personnel.
Contact: Restorative Justice office,
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Friends of the Master will use all of the resources that God provides to remove barriers that hinder them from living a personal relationship with Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Prisoner Aftercare
There is a great need to recruit “letter writing mentors” to be matched with an inmate serving life. The mentor would never meet the prisoner face to face. Someone would write the prisoner twice a month and maintain a Christ centered relationship. Retired men are perfect for this ministry. Letter correspondence for a prisoner serving life can be the most important thing going on in his/her life. The correspondence can feed a soul spiritually and save a person from sinking into deep despair- even suicide. Through letter discourse we can strengthen the Church on the inside and they will take the message to others who we cannot reach. There is also a need for women to write female prisoners who are serving long sentences. These prisoners have genuinely received Jesus Christ, and they are mature and well read; they have something to say.
USP Terre Haute is the maximum security site for the Life Connections Program, politically known as the President’s Faith Based Initiative.
Thank you for your time and effort,
Chaplain Joseph Dulmage
Director of Prisoner Aftercare
Phone 734.697.2010
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Drugs & Alcohol Programs
Hope Clinic, Inc. 734-484-2989
Fax484-6825 P. O. Box 980311 Ypsilanti MI
http://comnet.org/hopeclinic/
Directions to HOPE Center in Ypsilanti - Take Michigan Ave. (or Washtenaw
Ave.) turn right-South on Hamilton turn right-West on Harriet St. to 518
Harriet, Ypsilanti MI; or take I-94 to Ypsilanti's Huron St. Exit turn
left-North on Huron St. turn right-West on Harriet St. to 518 Harriet.
Dawn Farm, 485-8725 485-6103
Providing Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti, Michigan with affordable, high
quality
alcoholism and drug addiction treatment since 1973.
PO Box 981098 Ypsilanti MI 48198;
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www.dawnfarm.org/
Employment Programs
Ex-offenders seeking employment can call Gene LaPouttre or Pam Byrnes
at 975-6880 of HERO and Michigan Ability Partners,
working together in a collaborative called CEO (Coordinated Employment
Options) for ex offenders.
The Coordinated Employment Options (CEO) collaborative effort program is a 2-week program every month. The first week is MRT (moral reconation therapy) and the second week are employment skills (soft - like goal setting, budgeting, etc) and (hard - interview skills, resume writing, etc.). The following weeks are then devoted to job searching and placement (we have a long list of employers who hire persons with records).
HERO (Homeless Empowerment Relationship Organization) is a nonprofit - 501(c){3} - agency that provides goal-settng and empowerment services to Washtenaw Count homeless and at-risk individuals. www.hero-usa.org (734-975-6849).
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The Prison Creative Arts Project
invites you to the
Twelfth Exhibition of
Art by Michigan Prisoners
March 27 - April 11, 2007
Duderstadt Center Gallery
University of Michigan North Campus
2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI
GALLERY HOURS
Tuesday - Saturday 10am to 7pm
Sunday & Monday 12pm to 6pm
The exhibition is free, open to the public, and wheel
chair accessible.
Schedule of Events & For more information visit www.prisonarts.org,
call 734.647.7673, or email
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Paulist National
Catholic Evangelization Association
publishes a quarterly newsletter to prisoners
http://www.prison-ministry.org/download/
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