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AORP Freedom Chant for Peace grant
AORP Freedom Chant: Give me freedom! Give me peace! Give me true love! Give me the strength and determination to remain free from the grip of mass incarceration. Give me the discipline, to stand down and be at peace, both within myself, and within our community, Give me the willingness to embrace the true love of self, others, and my community.
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What is the primary issue area that your application will impact?
Community safety
In what stage of innovation is this project, program, or initiative?
Expand existing project, program, or initiative (expanding and continuing ongoing, successful work)
What is your understanding of the issue that you are seeking to address?
Community safety crime bullying violence and recidivism
Describe the project, program, or initiative this grant will support to address the issue.
The GBC Gang Bully & Criminal Lifestyle Recovery training are idealistic for not only individuals experiencing a lifetime cycle of gangs, bullying and criminal thinking but also for anyone that has experienced a family member or loved one battling such a lifestyle behavior of violence criminal thinking and bullying characteristics. At the completion participants will be functionally equipped to identify the mentality, exhibit coping skills to address the mentality and become facilitators of the G. B . C lifestyle recovery support groups and lifestyle recovery facilitator with opportunities to facilitate workshops and one on one training. We believe that GBC training will be sufficient for clients to fully embrace the program and come away fully enlightened and equipped with life skills and discernment that are priceless in today's society of crime and violence. Gang, Bully & Criminal Lifestyle Recovery Today's society there is a trend of crime violence and theft most times the people who are committing crime and violence do not face significant jail time and for those that are convicted and sentenced to time more often than not get the help needed to address the causative factors of the mentality for which they’re operating. The GBC program fills in this gap by reaching individuals who are justice impacted towards comprehensive resources such as job training, job referrals, vocational training and the most importantly support group meetings and trainings
Describe how Los Angeles County will be different if your work is successful.
what we cover on your journey to freedom and redemption Group Therapy. Peer Feedback: Group therapy can be a value source clients point out thinking errors in each other and relate them to their own experience.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Challenge Distorted Thoughts: help the client recognize and challenge distorted thinking patterns, encouraging clients to question their assumptions and beliefs.
Raise Awareness of Consciousness: Decision Balancing : Explore negative consequences of gang bully and criminal actions and foster awareness using tools from the GBC workbook on gang bully and criminal lifestyle recovery training emotional awareness and the drug and alcohol awareness as it relates to the gang, bully and criminal thinking.
Distinguish Needs Vs Wants: Entitlement Thinking: teach clients to differentiate between true needs and wants. Develop a personal inventory values and goals to align with core values.
Addressing Invulnerability Attitudes: False Sense of Invincibility:
What evidence do you have that this project, program, or initiative is or will be successful, and how will you define and measure success?
Affiliates and Offenders Recovery Program (AORP) A community-based non-profit organization. Also widely known as AORP committed to reeducation and change in the community. Established in July, 2017 AORP has effectively assisted at-risk youth and adults toward positive and productive lives through effective curriculums and 12-step based programming geared towards addressing the underrecognized condition of gang, bully, and criminal lifestyle addictions and how to successful transition into society, Having assisted in the successful parole of 30 formerly incarcerated lifers who are doing great work in their respective communities.AORP Originated as a fact based correspondence curriculum and support group format popular across prisons within the state of California. A recognized and often recommended program by the California Board of Parole Hearings for Californians incarcerated within the prison system with over 400 participants with a 98% success rate for those who truly embraced It
Approximately how many people will be impacted by this project, program, or initiative?
Direct Impact: 200.0
Indirect Impact: 3,000.0