| Community: Jail Program Helps Incarcerated Mothers Build Relationships w Their Children #CRDF #LASD @EBILASD Dear Pepperdine Libboard, LA Co Jail ABC Program Helps Incarcerated Mothers Build Relationships With Their Children #CRDF@EBILASD Who: Inmates at CRDF Who Are Actively Enrolled in the Education Based Incarceration Program (EBI) What: Adults Bonding with Children (ABC) program at CRDF Reason: To encourage incarcerated mothers to build and continue strong relationships with their children while incarcerated When: Every Saturday Morning Where: Century Regional Detention Facility 11705 South Alameda Street, Lynwood Ca 90262 Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Education Based Incarceration (EBI) unit at Century Regional Detention Facility (CRDF) recognizes the impact on a family when a loved one is incarcerated. In most cases, the children bare the most emotional distress. That is why every Saturday morning qualified inmates who are enrolled in the EBI programs at CRDF are allowed monitored visits with their children through the Adults Bonding with Children (ABC) Program. The ABC program also provides these incarcerated mothers the opportunity to build and maintain a family bond with their children. The children’s ages range from one month to twelve years old. In order to qualify, the inmates must be disciplinary write-up free, enrolled in the EBI program and approved to have unsupervised visits with their children. The EBI program has become popular with the inmates because it not only provides them with educational opportunities, it has life skills classes such as anger management, substance abuse and parenting courses, which help the incarcerated females to cope with living in a jail environment. EBI programs enable women to earn a high school diploma, attend drug rehabilitation programs and earn vocational certificates in Maintenance, Painting, Culinary and Fashion Design. In addition, there are elective classes such as Women’s Empowerment, Prison of Peace, Celebrate Recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), and Narcotics Anonymous (N.A.) just to name a few. Officer Haley-Graham has taken on the duty of coordinating with CRDF’s staff and its inmates to make EBI’s Adult Bonding with Children program a success. Officer Haley-Graham, has worked for over 10 years with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and is assigned to the EBI unit. She was trained as a teacher’s aide with Delta Sigma Theta State Head Start Program in 1990 where she received a certificate as a Certified Teachers Assistant/Aid. She is also a certified instructor for the Breakthrough Parenting classes offered through EBI, which the inmates enrolled in the ABC program are required to take. On the day of the program, the inmates are escorted to an unsecured site on the premises, which is decorated and resembles a daycare setting. There they are provided with a variety of toys, games and crafts to share with their children. During that time the parent and child are able to bond by playing games together, working on homework assignments or just sitting down and talking about their child’s day to day life on the outside. They end their visits by having lunch with their children and all participants assist with the clean-up. The time spent may be short, but very much appreciated and needed by both mother and child. The Educational Based Incarceration Unit provides programs that assist all incarcerated men and women reach their full potential through education, empowerment, self-esteem and self-respect in order to make them better parents, productive citizens in their communities and in jail. Educating and providing life skills to the incarcerated population will enable them to enhance and develop their quality of life and become architects of their future by presenting opportunities for spiritual, educational, and economic transformation. Authored by: Officer Denise Harris (EBI) Deputy Tammy Sherman (EBI) Sergeant Alex Gamboa (EBI) Sergeant Peter Gomez (EBI) Education Based Incarceration Unit Century Regional Detention Center 11705 S. Alemeda Street, Lynwood 90262 Forwarded by: Sheriff’s Information Bureau – Newsroom Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Hall of Justice - First floor 211 W. Temple St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 213-229-1700
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