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Millicent Fenwick House

Millicent Fenwick House is a residential community release program for incarcerated women with substance abuse and mental health issues. The following services are provided: substance abuse counseling, didactic lectures, vocational counseling, parenting skills, mental health, furloughs, community service and drug relapse prevention. Curricula include: Seeking Safety Evidence-based practices include: Rational emotive behavior therapy

Female Trauma Recovery Program - Bedford

The Female Trauma Recovery (FTR) Program is a specialized treatment program to assist female inmates who have experienced the trauma of sexual abuse. The program utilizes the Trauma Recovery Empowerment Model, which is an evidence-based approach to treatment of trauma issues in women. Other issues addressed are substance use, parenting, health issues, and building interpersonal and resource networks. Upon completion of the program, assigned staff will evaluate, assess, and develop an aftercare plan for participants with ongoing treatment needs.

Female Trauma Recovery Program - Albion

The Female Trauma Recovery Program is a specialized treatment program to assist women who have experienced the trauma of sexual abuse. The program utilizes the Trauma Recovery Empowerment Model, which is an evidence-based approach to treatment of gender specific trauma issues. Other issues addressed are substance abuse, parenting, health issues, and building interpersonal and resource networks. Upon completion of the program, assigned staff will evaluate and assess participants for ongoing treatment needs.

Earned Release Program (ERP)

Earned Release Program (ERP) utilizes two core curriculum, Thinking for a Change (T4C) and Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Substance Abuse (CBISA). Social skills, problem solving, decision making, anger management, parenting, employability, family reunification, and victim empathy are also included.

Treatment Alternative Program

The Treatment Alternative to Prison Program, or TAPP, is designed to be another sentencing option for Milwaukee judges for certain non-violent female offenders. Offenders sentenced to this program will benefit from intensive, gender-specific alcohol and other drug abuse treatment programming and community supervision support services. The primary focus will be on public safety, offender accountability, successful rehabilitation, and community wrap-around services designed to break the cycle of incarceration.

Read to Me Mommy

Read to Me Mommy program was developed to help reunify mothers and their children, while the mother is incarcerated. The mothers record themselves reading stories to their children. The tape and book are then sent to the child in hopes of strengthening the relationship between mother and child.

Re-Entry Program

The CFW's re-entry program offers guidance on a range of issues that women face when they return to the community. Topics include addiction issues, anger management and employment skills. Separately, this facility offers the following: AA and NA programs; a substance abuse class (curriculum: Living in Balance), an HIV/AIDS support group; pre- and post-natal counseling (one-on-one), provided by an RN/clinical chaplain; a domestic violence education and support group, taught by volunteers from Capital Area Human Services; and a sexual trauma group.

Parenting Program - St. Gabriel

The Parenting Program is a 30-hour curriculum that teaches parenting skills to incarcerated women. Participants may voluntarily enroll or may be court ordered to attend. The women are taught appropriate expectations of children by learning about the stages of child development. Participants are taught behavior modification techniques without using corporal punishment and how to avoid power struggles. Participants are also taught the rules and regulations for their children to visit on the compound (for example, the inmate should be with the child at all times).

Morals Integrity Group

The Morals Integrity Group (The Louisiana Sex Offender Risk Management Project) is designed for women identified as sex offenders and for those who have a history of prostitution-related activity. This group has a psycho-educational component and a treatment component. The program is based on cognitive behavioral theory and is strongly grounded in relapse prevention.

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