A generous club within the razor wire, walls and locking doors of Oregon’s Two Rivers Correctional Institution (TRCI) has raised thousands of dollars for breast cancer programs at the Tri-Cities Cancer Center Foundation (TCCCF). Most recently, the Paradigm Shift Club (PSC) donated more than $2,500 from fundraisers held to benefit cancer patients.
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My name is Auli’i and I’ve been working at the CCCF DMV Call Center for five months now, and it took me by surprise when I was asked to write about the purpose for the “Vision Wall” idea I came up with for my peers. In a place like this, we are not strangers to not being heard or our ideas going unnoticed, which is a thing that needs to change, and this acknowledgement is proof that they’re finally trying: “There’s always room for change”.
Continue reading “Coffee Creek Correctional Facility – Vision Boards”Last year, South Fork Forest Camp (SFFC) partnered with the Joys of Living Assistance Dogs (JLAD), a non-profit organization dedicated to training and raising service dogs to support and assist persons living with disabilities. The adults in custody (AICs) train them, and then the dogs are placed with individuals that need them. Below are testimonials from AICs talking about how the program has impacted their lives.
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