Trauma, Toxic Stress and Protections –
Thursday, December 1, 2016 | 9:00am – 3:00pm
4101 East Willow Street • Long Beach, CA 90815
No Cost event made possible by Supervisor Don Knabe, Los Angeles County, District IV
Register Online at: http://fola_2016summit.eventbrite.com
Onsite Registration Opens at 8:00am
Friends Outside in Los Angeles County is honored to be a part of this exciting project with whom we are partnered on our new Dads Back! Academy, fatherhood services for re-entry fathers (and mothers).
The California Arts Council, a state agency, has awarded $5,600 to TheatreWorkers Project (fiscal receiver Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA) as part of its Artists Activating Communities program.
With support from the California Arts Council, TheatreWorkers Project (inspired by the concept of Restorative Justice) will work with the Friends Outside in Los Angeles County Fatherhood Project to provide theatre workshops to men who are transitioning from incarceration to society. Participation in improvisation, writing and storytelling will culminate in short performances for families and friends that will promote positive self esteem as the men redefine their personal narratives. Led by Susan Franklin Tanner, the teaching artist team will include Jim Macdonald, Marlene McCurtis and Tom Kellog.
“California Arts Council grants provide vital support for projects in diverse communities across our state,” said Craig Watson, Director of the California Arts Council. “This was an historic year of state arts support. We are proud to invest more than $8.5 million in funding 712 grant projects that will stimulate local growth and prosperity, and meet the needs of our communities through deep engagement with culture and creative expression.”
TheatreWorkers Project is dedicated to providing opportunities for working people, the unemployed and youth to tell their stories through theatre by creating and presenting performance pieces about historical and current social and political issues, and transforming the classics, making them accessible to all ages.
Please join us for the Grand Opening of our Dads Back! Academy, fatherhood services for re-entry fathers (and mothers) who are parents (or like parents) to a child under the age of 24. The event will take place on Friday, September 30, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM (program at 11:15 A.M.), at 9702 Holmes Avenue, Los Angeles, 90002, at the Tree of Life Missionary Baptist Church.
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More than 5 million children in the U.S. have had a parent who lived with them go to jail or prison. That’s one in 28 kids, compared with one in 125 about 30 years ago. This proportion is higher among black, poor, and rural children and is more than likely an underestimate since it does not include children with a non-residential parent who is incarcerated. The majority of parents incarcerated are fathers, with 1.1 million serving time in 2010. Read the full report at First5la.org.
FCLCA is a co-sponsor of Sen. Holly Mitchell’s Senate Bill 1157, Strengthening Family Connections: In-Person Visitation. This bill preserves in-person visitation for people who are incarcerated in local detention and correctional facilities, including those detained under immigration holds, awaiting trial or serving sentences,and minors held in juvenile facilities.
Research shows that family contact and in-person visits when a person is incarcerated have numerous benefits: they help to maintain family stability, reduce disciplinary problems, reduce recidivism, and facilitate successful re-entry.
Increasingly, California counties are eliminating in-person visitation and adopting video visits, in which families can only see each other over a video screen. Also increasingly new jails are being built that allow for video visitation only.
This is a very timely bill that can preserve important in-person visitation before it’s too late. Please let your senator know today that you support this bill and ask them to vote YES on Senate Bill 1157.
TAKE ACTION! Please let your senator know today that you support this bill and ask them to vote YES on Senate Bill 1157.