Services
What We Do
Here's a Snapshot of the Services We Offer
The Community Forgiveness and Restoration Initiation has a comprehensive plan to heal our community and return rehabilitated confined citizens through faith-based solutions. We have drafted legislation that introduces effective behavioral and mental health examination and treatment back into the criminal justice and prison system, and we have created a faith-based re-entry program working with incarcerated residences and the community at large.
Upon their release, CFR provides returning citizens with a six session prison de-briefing curriculum that is designed to walk a them through the reintegration process. We also educate the community regarding how certain legislation directly affect them and how to get involved to promote public safety in their neighborhood.
Additionally, we work diligently to provide returning men and women with the following resources and services:
16 Weeks Transformation Workshops prior to release
Assistance with obtaining vital records (i.e. Birth Certificate, Social Security Card, Driver's License, etc)
Prison de-briefing: healthy re-socialization
Assign a life coach according to your faith belief
Assistance with obtaining suitable clothing
Assistance with obtaining affordable housing
Voter registration
Assistance with obtaining public assistance or Social Security benefits
Assistance with obtaining Veteran's Services
Assistance with obtaining employment
Enrolling in school to obtain an education, including G.E.D., College, and/or Vocational Training
Assistance with obtaining a SEPTA transpass or tokens for job interviews and appointments
Assistance with obtaining substance abuse, behavioral, and mental health counseling and/or treatment
Attend one weekly religious study class and service
Transformational Workshop Curriculum
Our transformation workshop curriculum is designed to heal the whole person from the inside-out, (i.e. spiritually, psychologically, mentally, and emotionally). Most of the Residents at SCI-Graterford are socially under-developed, under- educated, and suffer from some degree of PTSD, or some other behavioral/mental health disorder(s). The transformation workshops addresses these disorders with faith based Cognitive Behavioral therapy/treatment, and Positive psychology, through group therapy and fellowship, and one-on- one faith based counseling, utilizing the spiritual principles according to the participants faith tradition.