When the Legal System Fails the Entire Family is Incarcerated
"I was in prison, and ye came unto me."
~Matthew 25:36
Services
312-328-9610 Office ~ 312-328-9611 fax mwipmuhor11@hotmail.com
M&WIPM/UHORC provides Symposiums, Workshops, Referrals, Responsibility Discharge Package, GED Classes, Supportive Services, Family Reunification Meeting, Pen Pal Service and a Quarterly Newspaper designed to walk communities and faith based organizations through the process of creating and maintaining effective prison ministries. These Services are created and maintained to assist the incarcerated, the formerly incarcerated, their families and the community at large.
The Healthy Living Skills Program is designed to assist post incarcerated individuals with developing healthy coping skills, anger and stress management, financial health and other issues that will help to make the re-entry process smooth
More Details
For more information about this service:
Contact us at: (773)988-3411
Is your loved one incarcerated or recently released from prison? This group is designed to assist family members with issues and concerns associated with welcoming back a loved one while providing the family with the support of others who share the same experience.
For more information about this service:
Contact: Dawn Lane (708)339-2400
OR: Russell Jackson at (312)328-9610
Workshop: Bray Temple CME Church
Other Symposiums, Workshops and Support Groups
Educational & Vocational Life Skills (Gender Specific & Age Appropriate)
Establishing an Effective Pen Pal Program
Family Reconciliation & Community Empowerment
Family & Significant Other Support Groups
GED Preparation Classes
HIV/AIDS & STI's Education and Risk Reduction
How to Start a Prison Ministry/Outreach
The Ins and Outs of Inmate Visitation
Illinois Responsibility Discharge Packet
The Responsibility Discharge Packet contains information for people being released from prison. This responsibility discharge packet has a wealth of information for anyone, but especially for people coming out of prison. Information on health care, information on jobs, information of education and training and also information on housing are included. Also, in the packets we were able to put in condoms and lubrication. We were funded to put out 35,000 of these packets to give to people who are coming out of prison.
Since we call this a responsibility packet it means the role to recovery for our people coming out of prison is, “it’s their responsibility to go inside the packet and pull out the information that fits them or their family members. We want to make sure people understand we can put this all together, but unless a person is responsible enough to go into the packet and pull out the information that fits them, then they can use to help themselves and their families … then it is of no use for them.
We were also fortunately to go statewide. This is a statewide project it goes all the way to Waukegan, Rockford all the way to Springfield and even as far as Marion, Illinois. In our directory we were able to compile over 350 agencies that do re-entry work for people coming out of prison. We have the information here all you have to do is go through the directory and find the location where you live. It is broken up into different districts and it will show you where the districts are.
You can find information about services in healthcare, information about re-entry services and CBO’s, which are Community Based Organizations that are located in your district. The majority these organizations are being funded to service you. So we would like for people being released from prison to get these packets in their hands so they can help themselves and their families.
If you have questions or require more information, please contact Dawn Layne, Program Coordinator at (708) 339-2400 or Russell Jackson, Discharge Specialist at (312) 328-9610.
