BREAK THE CYCLE SUMMER EXPERIENCE
BREAKING THE
CYCLE
Services
Youth who do not receive adequate support to address their social and emotional needs as well as properly process experiences that cause them trauma may be deemed to repeat a cycle of incarceration. There are many adults in prison that can say that they had a parent whom they witnessed become a product of the prison system while they were growing up. Prison is not a solution to familial criminality or recidivism but positive resources and opportunity are solutions.
Mommy and Me Ministries, Inc. will ensure that our youth know that they can break the cycle of violence and incarceration.
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HANDS ON
2-week camp including civic engagement awareness and education, Over the Ocean Field Experience where youth connect with youth in other regions across the globe who have also been impacted by violence and the incarceration of their mother
COUNSELING:
youth 8-18
Tuesdays 5pm-6pm
Grief and Loss
Using an evidence based curriculum and individual counseling sessions, youth
will learn to utilize healthy methods to cope with the trauma induced by the loss of a loved one to gun violence and/or maternal incarceration.
Biblical
During meet-ups youth will be empowered and encouraged through the scriptural
lessons and stories of their peers in biblical history.
Need Base
Youth and caregivers will complete needs based assessments to help the Mommy
and Me Ministries team develop their individual or family support plans.
Support Groups
Mentoring Sessions
Service Projects
Youth will have weekly meet-ups which will be guided by use of the grief and loss curriculum as well as lessons and activities all with an aim to teach healthy coping skills, build resilience and break the cycle of incarceration and violence.
Children and teens from ages 8-18 will be paired with an organization approved mentor who they will meet with every 1st and 3rd Saturday for various teaching and coaching sessions as well as fun and educational activities and events.
In March, June and December (quarterly) youth participants will engage in service learning projects that raise awareness about the effects of violence and incarceration nationally and internationally. Projects will have a focus on prison nurseries.