Offender Programs

Adjustment to Incarceration

This program helps participants cope with life in a correctional setting. The participants will have an opportunity to examine the personal impact of incarceration, explore reactions to their losses, and consider constructive ways to adjust to incarceration.

Rational Thinking

This program focuses on examining and improving thinking style. The participant will learn why they feel and act as they do, understand the ABC’s of emotion and action, identify thinking errors, and how to change feelings and behavior.

Criminal Lifestyles

The focus of this program is for the participant to recognize the connection between how they think and how they act, examine the costs and payoffs of their criminal behavior, identify criminal thinking errors, review their history of breaking social rules, and how their actions have harmed not only themselves but also their friends and family, their victim and the victim’s family and their community.

Living With Others

Participants concentrate on skills that will help them adjust to incarceration including learning to communicate effectively, manage their anger, and build healthy relationships.

Parenting

This program focuses on building trust, communication, handling anger, and setting rules and limits. Participants engage in role play to learn how to recognize anger and ways to control it. A video is offered to watch skills they have learned so it can be put into practice.