Community Return
Gender-Specific Offender Rehabilitation for Women
Families Free works with cohorts of 10-15 women housed at the Johnson City Jail through a 16-week program to provide gender-specific, evidence-based recovery support services deisnged to prepare incarcerated women for sucessful community reintegration and family reunification!
Topics are addressed to help our participants in reframing their priorities and perspectives on life, to address co-occurring disorders, parenting skills, personal finances, and job readiness. For one year following release, Families will work through a personalized service plan, as well as, provide resource linkage and problem solving skill development services to assist these ladies in a stable, successful transition back into their communities and families.
Expert Speakers
Steve Loyd, MD - Addiction & Recovery
Patricia Turner, LMSW, Alcohol and Drug Treatment Co-coordinator of Intensive Outpatient Program at Frontier Health - Addition & Recovery
Bob Henshaw, District 1 Director of the Board of Probation and Parole, along with Cathy Connelly, BOPP - The Role of the BOPP in Re-entry
Harlan Hill, Employment Retention Specialist, Northeast TN Career Center - Career Development and Employment Options
Jorga Cummings, MSW - Anger Management
Positive Outcomes
Families Free's participants have consistently shown lower scores on the Texas Christian University's Criminal Thinking Scales when comparing pre-tests to post-tests. This test assesses the following areas: Entitlement, Justification, Personal Irresponsibility, Power Orientation, Cold Heartedness, and Criminal Rationalization.
A huge thank-you to Warden Sam Garland and Chief of Police John Lowry for giving us the opportunity to do this program at the Johnson City Jail!
