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Provides trained volunteers who visit a prison inmate to offer emotional and spiritual support, this ongoing support to released inmates to assist in the adjustment to community life.

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Inmate Support Services
Services include mentoring and coaching on a variety of parenting issues such as the navigation of child custody, child support, visitation and parenting plans. Facilitates fatherhood workshops in both community and correctional settings.

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Job Training Formats
Co-Parenting Workshops
Ex-Offender Reentry Programs
Inmate Support Services
Prejob Guidance
Provides justice-involved people with education and prevention programming, mentorship, case management and referrals for treatment services, and advocacy resulting in enhanced relational skills and reintegration within the community. Volunteers assist with fundraising events and/or grant writing.

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Volunteer Opportunities
Ex-Offender Reentry Programs
Inmate Support Services
Offers prison ministry.

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Inmate Support Services
Offers visits to prison.

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Inmate Support Services
Religious Activities
Specialized treatment court that identifies and intercepts non-violent adult offenders with mental illness or a co-occurring disorder. FACT provides comprehensive evidence-based treatment to high risk individuals with a criminal background, severe mental illness as well as Drug and Alcohol issues. Prison re-entry programrovides life skills counseling to inmates with mental illness and prepares them for re-entry to the community. IMED (Intercept Model for Early Intervention) provides services to those 18 years and older with Medicaid who have come to the attention of the Criminal Justice System via police and/or magisterial involvement.

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Early Intervention for Mental Illness
Inmate Support Services
Mental Health Courts
Mental Health Evaluation
Prison ministry team visits those who are incarcerated
Prison provides minimum to maximum security levels. Average length of stay is approximately 70 days. Those committed and sentenced can be held for periods up to 2 years less one day. The prison offers a wide range of opportunities designed to assist those incarcerated in changing their lifestyle to include educational classes and reentry services to assist them in becoming productive members of their communities. Services available to those incarcerated: Prison Physician: 24-hour medical coverage and emergency services through PrimeCare Medical. Prison Psychiatrist: Mental health and crisis counseling through PrimeCare Medical. Drug and Alcohol (D&A) Education: Individual and group D&A education, guest speakers; weekly Narcotics and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings through community volunteers. Anger and stress management classes. Parenting classes. Individual and group spiritual counseling and services through daily clergy visits Reentry Classes
Participates in the monthly breakfast with the Prison action committee of CCU. Works with Prison Fellowship to train volunteers for prison ministry and mentoring.

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Volunteer Training
Inmate Support Services
Offers multiple services to inmates including Assessment & Evaluation Services, Psycho-Educational Group Programming, as well as Crisis Intervention Services. Identifies, screens, assesses, and evaluates inmates who would benefit from participating in a variety of services designed to target substance abuse and mental health issues.
Christian Churches United coordinates with churches in the community to welcome pre-release inmates on a Saturday morning once per month to eat breakfast and hear a message of hope.

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Inmate Support Services
Congregate Meals/Nutrition Sites
Provides workshops, recreation and mentors to children who are experiencing one or both parents who are incarcerated.

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Inmate Support Services
Helps ex-offenders through one-to-one mentoring, information and referral, and family activities.
Assists formerly incarcerated citizens in finding a home, church, job, housing, mentoring, and spiritual advising. Also sends letters to those incarcerated in county, state, and federal correctional institutions. Volunteer opportunities available.

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Ex-Offender Reentry Programs
Volunteer Opportunities
Inmate Support Services
Offender/Ex-Offender Support Groups
Provides open and closed support group - AA meetings, maintenance of meeting facility for support group members, free literature pamphlets; "Fellowship House," public service speakers, prison meetings and one-on-one contact.

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Friendly Visiting
Inmate Support Services
Alcohol Use Disorder Support Groups
Answers questions about prisons and jails, including how to set up visits and calls, how to find reentry resources, and how to address medical concerns. Helps families to document concerns about facilities, which can result in the dispatch of a trained Prison Monitor.
Provides pre-release mentoring services. Arranges workshops that educate incarcerated women about child custody issues, employment, housing, and health care. Aims to restore a sense of hope and dignity, and empower clients to make positive and responsible life choices.

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Ex-Offender Reentry Programs
Mentoring Programs
Inmate Support Services
Provides educational services in the Bucks County Correctional Facility, the Community Corrections Center, and the community for re-entrants. Provides basic literacy and GED prep. Cognitive behavioral skills instruction, decision making, and employment readiness.

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Adult Basic Education
Literacy Programs
Parole
Inmate Support Services
Probation
Provides pastoral care to inmates, their families, and jail staff through the chaplain, including approximately 1,000 individual pastoral sessions each year. Offers oversight of daily volunteer-led Bible studies and coordinates weekly worship services for all faiths. Supports inmates and their families through a Christmas gift program for children, a Christmas party for inmates with cookies from local churches, and individual correspondence Bible studies. Conducts mission interpretation visits to local churches and creates opportunities for inmates who want to change and are open to connecting with a congregation. Offers training and guidance to individuals who wish to visit the jail as a Christian witness.
Provides chaplaincy services in the Allegheny County Jail and in Shuman Juvenile Detention Center.

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Spiritual/Religious Issues Counseling
Inmate Support Services
Offers services to women incarcerated or recently released from a correctional facility into the greater Philadelphia area. Addresses housing, health, benefits, employment, family advocacy and planning, childcare services, Re-Entry assistance, and stress and anger management. Also plans events such as resource fairs, support groups, journaling workshops, yoga classes, and parenting classes.

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Inmate Support Services
Correctional Facilities
Provides individualized wraparound services to justice-involved women to help them with meet basic needs, find employment, and access stable housing. Provides comprehensive case management services.

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Probation
Parole
Inmate Support Services
Ex-Offender Reentry Programs
Provides a comprehensive residential program for women struggling with life-controlling problems, such as drug and alcohol addiction, eating disorders, and sexual abuse issues.

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Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facilities
Inmate Support Services
Postabortion Support Groups
Works with people who are serving time at the Chester County Correctional Center and are returning to the Coatesville area.

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Ex-Offender Reentry Programs
Inmate Support Services
Mentoring Programs
Provides a comprehensive residential program for women struggling with life-controlling problems, such as drug and alcohol addiction, eating disorders, and sexual abuse issues.

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Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facilities
Inmate Support Services
Postabortion Support Groups