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Read to Me Daddy/Mommy
RBF provides resources to video tape incarcerated parents reading a book of their choice to their children. The video is burned to a DVD and sent to the child with a copy of the book along with a special written message from their parent.
Quick Facts:
- Focus of initiative/program:
- Children and Families
- Inititative/program name:
- Read to Me Daddy/Mommy
- Year Established:
- 2007
- Lead agency/organization name:
- Reentry Benefiting Families
- Population served by initiative/program:
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- Returning from prison
- Adults
- Juveniles
- Men
- Women
- People convicted of a violent offense
- People convicted of a non-violent offense
Read to Me Daddy/Mommy
Contact:
Elain EllerbePresident & CEO
Reentry Benefiting Families, An Initiative of Refined By Fire Ministries, Inc.
Phone: 2259632074
174 Highland Meadows Drive
Jackson, Louisiana 70748
elainellerbe@bellsouth.net
www.rbf.la
Read to Me Daddy/Mommy
Initiatives and Programs
- Focus of initiative/program:
- Children and Families
- Inititative/program name:
- Read to Me Daddy/Mommy
- Lead agency/organization name:
- Reentry Benefiting Families
- Funding sources for initiative/program:
- Private Donations & Private Foundation Funding
- X
- X
- X
Funding
Partners in the reentry initiative/program
| Informal Agreement | Formal Agreement (e.g., a written contract or an MOU) with this partner. |
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| Community- and faith-based services providers: |
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| Institutional corrections (e.g., DOC, jail, prison): |
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| Members of the community (e.g., people who have been incarcerated, their families or neighbors): |
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Participants
- Population served by initiative/program:
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- Returning from prison
- Adults
- Juveniles
- Men
- Women
- People convicted of a violent offense
- People convicted of a non-violent offense
- Total number of people who have participated in initiative/program to date:
- 100
- Total number of people currently participating in initiative/program:
- 40
- Total number of people who can be served at one time:
- 20
- If your initiative/program serves people under community corrections supervision, how does your organization work in partnership or work in collaboration with participants’ probation or parole officers?
- Program is only for incarcerated parents.
Data Collection
- Does your organization collect demographic data on participants?
- Yes
- If "yes", what kind of data? And what results has this data yielded?
- Anecdotal evaluations are gathered from parents and caretakers.
- Does your organization collect data about the process of your initiative/program?
- No
- Does your organization measure and/or track the outcome of participation?
- No
Activities
- What, if any, activities does your initiative/program include for people while they are incarcerated and how do these activities differ from those offered to the general population?
- The program was specifically designed for incarcerated parents only.
- What activities does your organization engage in post-release and how do these activities differ from those offered to the general population?
- We provide our participants with contact information to connect to our organization upon release if resources are needed.
- How are people placed into your program?
- Must have taken a parenting class first, then placed on waiting list as requested.