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| NY Prisoners Get Special Visits For Thanksgiving |
| By alternet.org |
| Published: 11/23/2010 |
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Terrance Stevens who is paralyzed and fully reliant on a power wheelchair due to muscular dystrophy, had prayed for a miracle. The program he founded, In Arms Reach, Inc. (IAR), helps children of incarcerated parents and was about to close down because of a lack of funding. All he could think of was the happy faces of the many children who had passed through his mentoring program and the sadness he would feel if the program would be forced to shut down. His dream was to help the many children of New York State prisoners that live in his Harlem community and had been left with a great void in their lives. He knew that the stigma of having an incarcerated parent coupled with an unstable care arrangement only exacerbated the trauma a child suffers. Statistics show that this could lead to a host of negative effects including poor academic achievement, drug and alcohol use, and involvement with the juvenile and adult criminal justice system. But then his prayers were answered last week when In Arms Reach was awarded funding under the Mentoring Children of Prisoners program (MCP) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Administration of Children and Family Services. IAR received a $600,000 grant over three years that allows the organization to enhance its services and staff in order to provide the one-on-one mentoring program to the Harlem community. Read More. |
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