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RS Eden

RS Eden offers the following services: substance abuse treatment, family counseling, correctional half-way houses, electronic home monitoring, drug testing, community supervision, employment advocacy, and sober/supportive housing.

OpenDoors

The mission of OpenDoors is to strengthen communities by supporting the formerly incarcerated. The OpenDoors reentry program uses a holistic approach to support offenders as they prepare to leave prison, return home, and stabilize in the community. The agency's programs include policy and advocacy on criminal justice issues, our one-stop Resource Center, and our Employment Program. OpenDoors programs seek to ameliorate the condition of the poor and promote economic self-sufficiency by improving job-readiness, addressing barriers to employment, and teaching job-retention skills.

Support, Education, Empowerment & Directions (SEEDs)

SEEDs is a community-based program that provides transitional safe homes to address the unmet needs of battered and sexually abused women in recovery, including single women and women reuniting with their children. Women remain in the residences for up to two years. Services: case management, support groups, healthcare for uninsured, job training, legal services, mentoring & writing groups.

Mothers and their Children (MATCH)

MATCH is a program for women who participate in the prison’s 9-week parenting program. Participation in the class allows women to have extended and more private visits with their children once every three months, in addition to normal visiting hours. An on-site studio apartment is equipped with a fully stocked kitchen, living room and toys for the mother and her child(ren) to spend quality time together for a period of three hours. MATCH provides funding for travel and hotel expenses for children who have to travel a long distance for these visits.

Anthony Parenting Program

The Anthony Parenting Program is housed in the Anthony living unit. All women residing in the unit participate in parenting and family skills programming. There are two groups, one for children up to age 11, and another for children age 12 and over. Every Saturday up to 12 children may come for an extended visit for the day. The visits are highly structured, emphasizing children's activities, the development of successful parenting approaches and security. Women in the unit who are not receiving visits help organize the activities for the other women's children.

Matrix Partnership for Housing

Matrix Partnership for Housing provides new housing to low-income women with children who are victims of homelessness and who have histories of substance abuse, domestic violence, and/or incarceration. The program receives referrals from community agencies and completes a thorough assessment to determine eligibility and ability to be successful in the program.

Leaving the Cocoon Mentoring

Leaving the Cocoon was established to address a lack of mentoring for women with criminal justice involvement. The mission for Leaving the Cocoon is to show Christ-like compassion to the needs of those with criminal justice involvement and help them rebuild their lives outside prison. Leaving the Cocoon desires to reach out to women caught in addictions and other troubles.

Family Preservation Program

In 1996, the Indiana State Department of Health’s Maternal Child Health Services and the Indiana Division of Family and Social Services assisted IWP in developing the Family Preservation Program. The program is based on national and local research suggesting that the children of women with criminal justice involvement have a higher incidence of violence in their lives and are more likely to be developmentally challenged than the general population.

Girl Scouts Beyond Bars - Greenville

Through Girl Scouts Beyond Bars, incarcerated mothers lead troop meetings and develop skills in leadership, conflict resolution and parenting, all of which are critical to their success in family life and employment after their release. The girls participate in traditional Girl Scout programming, which emphasizes leadership development. For mothers, the program stresses social well-being, positive behavior and self-esteem.

The Children's Center

The Children’s Center gives women incarcerated at Pulaski and their children (up to 16 years old) the opportunity to spend longer periods of time together outside the prison visiting room. The program operates in a daycare-like setting where children can visit every 3rd Saturday from 9 am to 3 pm and 4 days a week all summer, also from 9 am to 3 pm. Meals and snacks are provided, as well as entertainment for the children, including art supplies, movies and video games. The Center includes a day nursery for the babies.

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