Monday, August 25, 2008

Will you support me in trying to make our community better??

I am now free after 15 long years in prison (2 years) and I'm not taking away from my community any more, instead I'm now giving back to it and it feels so good . I speak at several area high schools, universities and job corps. I also do trainings, mentoring, and I've created and self published two pre-release handbooks for the men and women returning to the DC area and a few more things that I can't think of right now, but its not about me its about trying to make the communities safe, help change lives and help put people on the right track, but I need help trying to do this because I can't do this on my own. I want to answer questions from family members who have love ones who are on parole or incarcerated, I want to talk about ways to make the community safe, ways to help these kids, ways to help the community see that some ex-offenders do change. We the community can't give up on the ones that's trying to do the right things. If you want to help (no matter how far or close ) please send me your questions, remarks or just tell me how you want to help.

Please keep in mind that no one is perfect and we all make bad choices and some of do want to change and become better people and some don't.

Next week's post subject:
How Important do you think resource handbooks are to ex-offenders, their families, and those who are trying to help them transition back into their communities?