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Journey Home Background
The Journey
Home program was created based on the national model of the Pat Graney
Company’s “Keeping the Faith” prison project. In 2001, Arizona State University Gammage
contracted the The program was a success. As a result, ASU Gammage selected four (4)
of the 20 artists to collaborate on a local arts-based education program that
would take place within the penal system.
The local artists met for three months to design
a new program. An abbreviated pilot
program was initiated at Estrella Jail in the winter of 2001. In the spring of 2002, the Journey Home
program made its debut at Estrella.
Jail administration lauded the program for its positive impact on the
incarcerated women participants and requested that it continue on an on-going
basis. Workshops are designed to (a) help participants
embrace change in order to shift their personal paradigm; and (b) provide a
positive life-affirming environment in which inmates are encouraged to
explore options that help to eliminate unhealthy patterns that lead to the
revolving door of the penal system. Workshops demonstrate how to stand
outside the emotional self, take control of debilitating fears, and discover
the positive and productive self. Goal
The goal of the Journey Home program is to
implement sustainable arts programming in correctional institutions in the
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Build mutual trust by exploring new ways
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The
Program Journey Home is a six week program during which a
series of four hour workshops are presented to incarcerated women by
professional artists. A Mental Health
Specialist is available to handle any deep-rooted issues that may arise
during the process. The program consists of
creative writing, movement, storytelling, and visual arts. The program culminates with a final
performance by the women, inside the correctional facility. JH works with a
core group of women, ages 18-50, of all racial, religious and socio-economic
backgrounds. Journey Home is
presented in the Maricopa County Estrella Jail facility in Previous | Next Page 1 of 3 |
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