2nd
Annual NATIONAL
Prisoner's Family
Conference
February 25 and
26, 2010
Orlando , Florida
Crowne
Plaza Hotel - Orlando
Airport
A Glimpse of
Presenters and
Special Features
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For
complete details and registration
form, please visit: www.solutionsforelpaso.org |
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Grace
Bauer, Field Organizer, Campaign
for Youth Justice, Louisiana & Tracy
McClard, Advocate, Missouri |
Organizing
Ourselves for Change: Two
mothers of juveniles, one committing
suicide while incarcerated, relate
the building of a powerful advocacy
organization that changed history
by effecting changes in the system. |
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Jane Browning,
Executive Director & Awet Sellers,
Office Mgr. & Family Member,
International Community Corrections
Assoc., Washington, D.C. |
Coming
Home: Re-entry Reunification
Programs:: An accounting
of exemplary effective re-entry programs
that emphasize family reunification
in the re-entry process. |
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Marylou
Carrillo, Investigative Specialist
with DEA-El Paso Intelligence
Center (EPIC) (El Paso Police Tactical
Gang & Special Operations Sergeant
Retired) and Yvonne Sandoval,
Texas |
The Impact
of Gangs in Our Communities & On
The Prisoner's Family: This
session identifies those with ties
to gangs and drug trafficking organizations
for prevention purposes, as well
as safety issues. |
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Jo Chapman,
Coordinator for Kairos Women's Ministries,
California |
Kairos: The
Gift that Keeps on Giving: Learn
of the extensive work that Kairos
does for Prisoner's Families . |
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Elizabeth
Coldren, Field Director, Prison Fellowship, Florida
and Arleen B. Anderson, Director,
Angel Tree Year Round Ministry, Prison
Fellowship, Virginia |
Family
Embraced: Ministering to Children
and Families of the Incarcerated: This
workshop looks atskills for an effective
ministry to prison families, and
strategies for outreach and support. |
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Libbie
Combee, Executive Director & Jason
Leland, Leland Family Ministries
, Florida |
Addiction
Destroys: The High is a Lie: Powerful
personal testimony on overcoming
the perils of methamphetamine use/abuse. |
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Celeste
Didlick-Davis, Doctoral Candidate Miami
U. , Ohio |
Helping
Formerly Incarcerated Females Come
Back Home to Stay: An exploration
of the unique barriers faced by female
offenders . |
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Eva Eberhardt,
LPC, CAC III, NCC, ABC Counseling
Center , Colorado |
Addiction
in the Prison-Family: An interactive
workshop on the critical role of
the family in the successful addiction
recovery process of the returning
prisoner. |
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Ann Edenfield-Sweet,
Founder and Director of Wings and
Wings for Life, New Mexico |
Wings for
L.I.F.E.: The process of effectively
bringing family members, returning
citizens, probationers and volunteers
together to resolve the affect of
incarceration on the entire family. |
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Carolyn
Esparza, LPC, Founder and Director
of Community SOLUTIONS of El Paso,
Texas and Sherry Carrol, Correctional
Program Specialist, National Institute
of Corrections, Washington DC |
Voices
from the Inside: This
panel presentation offers an opportunity
to hear from those working and living
inside the prison setting, and includes
a poignant yet practical presentation
on maintaining family relationships
throughout incarceration from the
inmate's perspective. |
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Carol Fennelly,
Executive Director, Hope House & William
Muth, PhD, Asst. Prof. Virginia Commonwealth
University & former Administrator
of Education for the Federal Bureau
of Prisons of Washington, DC |
Strengthening
Families by Supporting Fathers Behind
Bars: This workshop highlights
the role fathers behind bars can
play in the lives of their children
and families while incarcerated. |
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Dr. Ann
Gifford, Parents and Partners of
Prisoners, Texas |
Introducing
a Re-entry Covenant: A written
agreement that helps reconcile relationships,
restore families, and reduce recidivism . |
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Barbara
Joy Hansen, Nationally recognized
speaker and Author of Listen to the
Cry of the Child, Massachusetts |
Domestic
Violence and Sexual Abuse: Setting
Captives Free: This victim's
perspective of healing from 38 years
of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,
leading to facilitating support for
victims of sexual abuse and ministry
to sex offenders. |
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Dominic
P. Herbst, MS; MA, Bethesda
Family Services Foundation, Author
of "Restoring Relationships," Pennsylvania |
Restoring
Relationships: A Journey of
Forgiveness and Healing : This
model for healing relationships in
the prison family is based on the
premise that "Pain concealed is pain
unhealed." |
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Roger Hollar,
Pastor and Executive Director of
Mercy Heart, Texas |
Mercy Heart : The
role of the local church in restoring
families of inmates and tools for
helping the families left behind
when a loved one goes to prison. |
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Connie
King , MA , Eckerd Youth Alternatives,
Florida |
Left Behind: Children
of Prisoners: This interactive
workshop identifies how effective
tools and community collaboration
help children of prisoners convert
a negative circumstance into a positive
experience. |
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Martin
La Barbera, Criminologist/Principle
criminal justice consultant-Corrections
Research Institute, Texas |
The Messages
Project: Parenting from Prison : This
2008 CNN Heroes of the Year awardee
program introduces a long-term in-prison
tool for healthy bonds between incarcerated
parents and their children. |
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Venessa
Mendenhall, Consultant, Dare Mighty
Things/Caregivers Choice, Virginia
and Michelle Mongelluzzo & Melissa
Casto, Staff, Kinship Care, Florida |
Statistics & Effective
Strategies to Support Children Impacted
by Parental Incarceration: An
examination of the impact of parental
incarceration on children, and two
effective strategies to support and
protect youth. |
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Anita Perry,
Family & Community Support
Services, LLC, Virginia |
Helping
Families Succeed: The Role
of Intensive In-Home Services : Effective
strategies and concrete methods for
stabilizing families disrupted by
the trauma of a loved one's incarceration . |
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Susan Sinclair,
PhD, university assistant professor, Upper
Midwest |
Living
with the Label : A powerful
personal look at the struggle toward
recovery and healing from the unique
trauma and relentless stigma experienced
by families of sex offenders. |
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Debbie
Walsh, Director of Prison Ministry-Missouri,
Child Evangelism Fellowship, North
Carolina |
The Impact
of Parental Incarceration on Children : Effective
strategies for helping children defy
the odds of being incarcerated later
in life, when cultural subsets often
lead to incarceration becoming a
rite of passage . |
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Henry Wells,
Program Manager, New Creations Community
Outreach, Michigan |
CHAMPS: Breaking
the Cycle of Generational Incarceration : Keys
to define, track and explain anticipated
behavioral patterns and create effective
intervention goals for children with
incarcerated parents. |
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Panel: Blaine
Whitt, President, with Mary Morgan,
David Clark, Calvin Brown, Jacalyn
Brown and Ken Frier of Xtreme Soulutions
, Florida |
Xtreme
Soulutions : T his prisoner's
and family's perspective offers proven
ways to effectively transform the
prisoner's mentality beginning during
incarceration to successfully reintegrate
into the community and family. |
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FEATURES & SPECIAL
ACTIVITIES |
Walter
McNeil, Secretary, Florida Department
of Corrections: Having
served as Secretary of the Florida
Department of Juvenile Justice and
Tallahassee Police Chief, Florida
Governor Charlie Crist appointed
Walter McNeil as Secretary of the
Florida Department of Corrections. Secretary
McNeil has been invited to
address the conference and share
the department's efforts to support
the prisoner's family. |
Ann
Edenfield Sweet, Author of "Family
Arrested: Surviving the Incarceration
of a Loved One", is joined
by her sons, Stuart and Curtis Edenfield,
to share their personal journey as
a "Family Arrested," ultimately leading
to the founding of "Wings Ministry" which
has become an award winning international
ministry to prisoners and their families.
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25
Years and Counting: Alison & Jay
Coleman weathered the
challenge of Jay's 25 year incarceration
while successfully raising two beautiful
children. The experience led
Alison to form Prison Families of New
York , an advocacy and support organization
that has effectively changed laws
and criminal justice procedures for
prison-families. The couple candidly
share their struggles with the reality
of family reunification. |
Thursday
Evening General Session - Real Life
Reintegration
Eva & Ray Eberhardt, ABC Counseling
Center, Ft. Morgan , Colorado
, share through music and word,
the highs and lows of their experience
with family and community reintegration.
Fred Gorwill from Sioux
Falls , South Dakota shares his
incarceration and re-entry experience
leading to his committed involvement
with Prison Congregations of America
, which supports prisoners in
forming their own churches within
prison walls.
Bobby McGee shares through music
and testimony of his incarceration
and re-entry experience, joined
by his wife, Nancy McGee and
Carolyn Bass in relating their
ministry to prisoners and their
families. |
Practical
Issues: Grant Writing & Fund
Raising : Alison
Coleman, Founder and Director of
Prison Families of New York & Grant
Reviewer and Carolyn Esparza, LPC,
Founder and Director of Community
SOLUTIONS, Texas |
BONUS: In-Prison
Ministry with Wings: Conference
attendees may volunteer for a special
trip to an Orlando area prison,
for an afternoon of family ministry
INSIDE. |
Exhibit
Tables and Networking Opportunities |
PLEASE
NOTE: Community SOLUTIONS and
The Prisoner's Family Conference
Steering Committee are not personally
familiar with each presenter and
their material selected for presentation. Although
all presentations are believed to
provide valuable information, the
selection of the conference presentations
does not indicate an endorsement
of the materials, organizations or
presenters represented. |
TO
REGISTER or for further information
go to
solutionsforelpaso@juno.com
or
PHONE: 915-861-7733 |
