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Parenting Program/Prison Nursery

The NCCW Parenting Program started in 1974 and was one of the first such programs in the United States to be introduced in a women's correctional facility. It includes parenting classes, overnight on-grounds child visits, extended day visits, and a nursery program. Children between the ages of 1 and 6 may spend up to five nights per month with their mothers in a living unit separated from general population. Newborns and children up to the age of 16 may have extended on-grounds day visits in the parenting program area.

Parenting Program - Billings

Montana Women's Prison contracts with the Family Tree Center to provide Parenting Program Services to incarcerated women. Programs provided include support groups, education and parenting skill development for pregnant women, mothers and grandmothers incarcerated at the Montana Women's Prison. The Family Tree also schedules and monitors individual child visits and monthly Kid's Day for mothers and children.

Cleanslate Program

Cleanslate, The Cara Program’s social enterprise, is a neighborhood beautification business providing on-the-job training and transitional support services for students in The Cara Program who face significant obstacles to employment.

Village Place

The Village Place is a permanent housing facility with seventeen units located on the East Side of St. Paul. The Village Place works to address the lack of adequate safe housing that affects 60 percent of Breaking Free's clients. This program is specifically targeted to house single women and African-American women involved in prostitution; however, women with children can reside in this program for as long as they desire.

Bottomless Closet

Bottomless Closet promotes self-sufficiency among economically disadvantaged women in New York City. They offer career, financial and personal development workshops and partner with over 100 referral organizations that provide work-readiness and skill-building training to clients. Women from approved referral organizations with scheduled job interviews are referred to Bottomless Closet. They meet with a volunteer, who helps the client prepare for the interview by reviewing her resume, interview questions and protocol, and job search basics.

Program Services

Greenhope provides services to 42 residential and 70 day treatment/outpatient clients. Greenhope's comprehensive approach to recovery incorporates a variety of academic enrichment and personal development strategies in order to address the various needs of the clients.

Aftercare programs

Aftercare programs are available to all the women who have graduated from Project Greenhope programs. The Outpatient Program serves women on parole, women referred as an alternative to incarceration and women from the community requiring substance abuse services. These women may or may not have participated in Greenhope’s residential and/or day treatment programs. Some clients may have parole and/or court stipulations that they participate in aftercare outpatient services.

Parole Programs

Greenhope’s parole programs are designed to assist women in their re-acclimation to society, giving them the tools necessary to live independently without substance abuse, relapse or re-incarceration.Greenhope currently operates the following parole programs: The Community Based Residential Program is designed for parolee women needing substance abuse residential services. The population is primarily composed of women just released from New York State prison. It is an intensive six-month program.

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