FOUNDER
Stephanie Miller-Henderson currently serves as an educator/counselor with the Chicago Public School district. Her previous professional experience includes 13 years in the social service field in the area of mental health where she served as treatment team coordinator. Stephanie serves in several ministry capacities as a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Chicago where she is able to teach within the Sunday school, serve as ministry leader for the Children of the King dance ministry, participate in various homeless outreach endeavors through the SEED ministry, and coordinate several annual youth events through the youth ministry.
Stephanie understands, through her own lived experience, the long term traumatic impact that the incarceration of a parent can have on children, adolescents and teens. In a misguided effort to cope with the absence of a parent to incarceration, the cycle of this lifestyle often persists through the offspring. Stephanie earned a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice from Chicago
State University in addition to a Masters in School Counseling from Concordia University Chicago to aid in cultivating her passion for this work. Participation in social justice forums, trainings, research, as well as membership with the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice helped to foster the founder’s thirst for reform and transformation as it relates to
incarceration and its lasting traumatic impact. Stephanie decided to gain pertinent knowledge on ways to combat the mass incarceration that disproportionately plagues African-American communities which includes breaking the cycle of incarceration starting with healing the youth.