In response to today’s question, in what ways am I using my time to prepare for success outside? First of all I am working on and tweaking I plans to start a group home. I am looking for resources that can assist me with looking at other organizations that have fail, in which I have read about in the Legal Prison News newsletters. I want to curb the problem with the youths in my area and then eventually spread out to other areas. I want to look at other group homes that have failed to see beforehand what problems that I may encounter. I want to prevent problems instead of trying to correct them. I have learned a lot from being in prison since 1993. I have an idea in which I found funny when I heard you speak here in Talladega FCI about your program and interns. I want to partner with colleges and universities and have an internship at my group home. With these college kids interning this works both ways, I provide college kids with on-hand learning experience and the kids at the group home interact with college kids. Not only that I want to have kids from within the community to have a space and access to the group home in which they can have summer work and earn a certification tutoring the kids at the group home. However my idea of the group home is that I want it to be more than just a run of the mill group home for at-risk/troubled youths. I want this group home to be some what like a Job Corp, with a year round camp feel to it. I want to provide STEM/STEAM, and have enrichment instructors instructing these kids. I would like to have REBT and/or CBT for these kids. I have read Gary Chapman’s Five Languages of Love, so I would like to be able to be able to create this culture there. I would also like to give these kids a sense of purpose and to have them to define their meaning of life by having the available tools and access to resources around them. This is part of how I would like to have this group home.
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