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How can we best protect our children from convicted child molesters when they get out of prison? 👉 This month, our recommended reading is, "Smart Justice: Community and Church Response to Convicted Predators Who Have Served Their Time. Author: Diane E Roblin-Lee, foreword by: Melodie Bissell, contributions by: Dean Bursey. Smart Justice (Booklet 8 in the Series: Predator-Proof Your Family) explores the most constructive church and community responses to pedophiles or convicted child-molesters who have served their time in prison, with a view to what will best ensure the safety of children. The concise booklet includes a tried re-integration process which will nurture healing and hope, but minimize opportunity to re-offend. Diane Roblin-Lee also examines the concept of Restorative Justice. This book includes topics such as: ✅ The high cost of recidivism ✅ Preventing recidivism (repeat offending) ✅ When first-line prevention hasn't worked ✅ Can treatment guarantee change? ✅ An integrated perspective - incarcerative punishment, psychiatric treatment and restorative justice ✅ Why do we need more than prison and treatment? ✅ What is "restorative justice?" ✅ And then there's the family of the child molester... ✅ Recycling humanity ✅ Supporting or shunning? ✅ Plan to Protect® ✅ The iHeart? ✅ Natural inclinations or wisdom? ✅ Jail-house religion--or restorative faith? ✅ The responsibility of the community ✅ Internet tools for change ✅ Models for re-integration into society ✅ The "Offender's Covenant" Diane Roblin-Lee was married for 38 years without knowing that her husband, 13 years into the marriage, had begun to molest children. Following her divorce, the sale of her home, and the dismantling of their business, Diane immersed herself in research and emerged with the Predator-Proof Your Family Series, breaking the silence in which predators hide. The publishing of this Series of nine booklets is Diane's way of turning her brokenness, and that of her family, into information and protection for other children and other families. Available at our online store 🛒 https://ow.ly/Iw2y50R1P76 . . . #HR #HumanResources #PlanToProtect #Safety #Protect #Protection #ChildAbuse #ChildProtection #AbusePrevention #Vulnerable #VulnerableAdult #VulnerableAdultProtection #AbuseAwareness #SundaySchool #Children #Child #SafetyFirst #RiskManagement #ReduceTheRisk #Disability #DisabilityProtection #StrangerDanger #SchoolSafety #HumanRights #ProtectTheVulnerable #TrainingResources #PreventionProgram #SexualOffenders #ChildMolesters #RecommendedReading

Navigating the challenging waters of incarceration can be overwhelming, but you don't have to face it alone. Sam Mangel is here to offer guidance and support to both individuals and their families during these difficult times. 🙌 Get A Free Consultation! 📞561-490-4544 www.sam-mangel.com #FederalPrisonConsultant #WhiteCollarAdvisor #PrisonCoach

Great piece on why we need #ParoleJusticeNY passed this year in NY -- let's pass Elder Parole and Fair and Timely Parole to reduce incarceration, build community, and prioritize healing and restoration. Money quote: "This is not just a matter of compassion. Communities benefit when their elders return to them from prison. Formerly incarcerated older adults can and have made important contributions to their communities, working to end gun violence, mentoring young people, serving as peer recovery counselors and promoting community safety. The alternative is leaving people to die in a cell, at ever-increasing moral and fiscal cost." https://lnkd.in/ezAGyZd3

In their article in YLPR, Amanda Alexander and Tolulope Sonuyi propose trauma-informed solutions to violence. They then offer their Detroit-based partnership as a model for others. Read "Reducing Community Violence & Incarceration" here: https://lnkd.in/eNEcb_i7

Stop punishing people forever! It's time for NYC to give families impacted by mass incarceration a #FairChanceforHousing. Tell your rep to Vote YES on #FairChanceforHousing, Int 632-A: https://lnkd.in/d4QcXkyf. "Over 10 million children in the United States have parents who were imprisoned. If the current barriers to housing persist, formerly incarcerated people and their families will continue to face housing insecurity and homelessness, thus reinforcing the vicious cycle of instability." - Criminal Legal Records: An Impediment to Housing Choice read the full paper: https://bit.ly/CLRpaper. * #fairhousing #housingdiscrimination

Incredibly important work https://lnkd.in/eSJpuSe8 Available evidence shows more than 50% of women with disabilities give birth unattended by skilled health professionals in low and middle-income countries. More research is needed on unassisted births of persons with disabilities in institutions/psychiatric facilities and other forms of congregate care. #reproductivejustice #disabilityjustice

From 2022-2023, the Tennessee Department of Corrections spent more than $900 million on incarceration. With an average of $111 in cost per day, or $3,330 a month, per person, it seems that it is more expensive to criminalize homelessness than to provide housing. The cost more than triples for homeless youth. This month, On April 22nd, 2024, the United States Supreme Court will hear the case of Johnson v. Grants Pass. This sets the stage for the most significant Supreme Court case about the rights of homeless people in decades. At its core, this case will decide whether cities can punish people for sleeping outside with a pillow or blanket, even when there are no safe shelter options. The highest court in our country will hear the case, but our local officials need to hear from the people—local advocacy matters. We must discuss real and impactful solutions that do not include criminalizing our neighbors. Affordable housing, health services, veterans services, and other known resources are needed to develop robust programs that rebuild communities and reintegrate the people we leave behind in talks of progress. Follow the link below to the Tennessee House of Representatives Directory and contact your district leaders. https://lnkd.in/eAjqWBrC Let your district representative know that criminalizing is not a housing solution! #SCOTUS #housingisahumanright #HousingIsARight #easttennessee #homelessoutreach #StrongerTogether #housingcrisis #fairhousing #fairhousingmonth

This past summer I attended a staff meeting at our Atlanta office location—which is located in the MLK Sr. (MLK Jr.’s father) Collaborative Center. The conversation was about advancing equity in the south through elevating the voice of those who have been impacted by the foster care system—with a a particular focus on those in spaces of advocacy. It was not lost on me that MLK Jr. was literally looking over my shoulder by way of the picture in the hallway. I spoke to an internal calling that might be greater for some—-and that I am my ancestors and I do stand on their shoulders. Unbeknownst to me—my colleague snapped this picture. Appreciate the moment being captured and a reminder that what we do is not so much for us—-but for those that follow. Be more than kind today, do more than participate in a “day on/not a day off”actively choose nonviolence, which is to do no harm, each and everyday with every decision you make. Don’t inflict psychological violence on children and families by separating unnecessarily. Children need their community and their families and ALL efforts should be made to prevent and/or get them back in community with their family, kin as soon as possible! Don’t inflict community violence by extracting talent, traditions, values by removing childen from their families and their neighborhoods. Find other ways to support families when the issues that they present with do not place their childen in present harm. Investigating is instrusive—it should be seen as the most necessary intervention. Don’t inflict generational violence by implementing and supporting policies that don’t honor reparative justice. Challenge ASFA—-the number of “legal orphans” who have rights severed from their parents and have not permanent resource suggest that this doesn’t work—-why do we keep doing it! Dont inflict physical violence on our children by placing them in facilities that mirror—in spite of best intentions, a carceral system. Would you want your child, relative in a facility? Have we justified that “certain” children deserve this fate because we are a country that loves jail? (Suggested by our investments in private/public prisons) Choose love. Choose nonviolence. Speak truth to power! #myancestorswildestdreams #mlkday

1 in 4 Disconnected Youth in the South Ward of Newark are incarcerated at any given time! Why? New Jersey spends a staggering $285 million each year on juvenile incarceration, with a portion allocated to private contractors. The Annie E. Casey Foundation found that every $1 spent on prevention saves $7 in future costs. If we invest more in our youth early on, the savings are clear – both in dollars and in futures. Advocates have repeatedly voiced it, and I echo their sentiments: Instead of investing in cells, let's invest in capacity. Instead of building detention centers, let's build pathways to opportunity. As a member of the Beloved Ecosystem we will do something about this together. #DisconnectedYouth #policy #empathy

Restoring Hope: A Path Towards Healing and Accountability will explore possibilities for addressing the pain and harm caused by violence, as well as the pain and harm caused by incarceration. RSVP at http://bit.ly/PathtoHope