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We provide an array of services to the families and inmates we work with. The activities that we include in our ministry are as follows.
Monthly Masses :
We invite religious communities to celebrate monthly masses where families gather and share their journey as a family with a loved one incarcerated. The religious communities that participate in these monthly masses are found in our news and events tab.
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Transportation:
We organize “Journeys Of Hope” which is free transportation to different prison facilities to help keep families together. These trips allow children to continue their relationships with their loved ones in prison and create a consistent support system for all involved. The prisons that we provide transportation for are: Avenal State Prison; California State Prison, Corcoran; Los Angeles County State Prison Lancaster; California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, Corcoran; Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Blythe; Correctional Training Facility, Soledad; Ironwood State Prison, Blythe; Kern Valley State Prison, Delano; North Kern State Prison, Delano; Pleasant Valley State Prison, Coalinga; Salinas Valley State Prison, Soledad and Pelican Bay State Prison.
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Mentoring Program:
Serving children affected by incarceration by providing them with caring adult mentors who will meet with them for one year.
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Educational Workshop:
We assist families offering educational workshops about criminal and immigration law, in order to help them to advoate for their loved ones. We distribute a pamphlet with the addresses and telephone numbers of different shelters at the Mexican, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador borders. The pamphlet includes "Know Your Rights" and is distributed at jails and prison to those facing deportation and the ones who do not have a family or a place to go in their country of orgin.
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Healing Services:
We host support groups and healing services to help the families to experience a moment of peace, rest and to be reenergized for their journey.
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Parent Project:
The Parent Project was created specifically for parents with diffucult or out-of-control adolescents. Parents learn and practice specific prevention and intervention strategies for destructive behaviors- truancy, alcohol, and other drug use, gangs and other criminal behavior, running away, violence, and suicide.
The topics will include:How to improve the communication with the children, how to identify and stop drug use and gang involvement, how to improve the children school performance and attendance, how to stop unwanted adolescent behavior.
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