LIFE Project- Prison Education
LIFE Graduation Celebration
LIFE: ( Lifelong Information for Entrepreneurs)
Business, entrepreneurship and pro-social soft skills curriculum for incarcerated women
The LIFE program addresses self-employment and microenterprise development after release for women prisoners at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF) in Wilsonville, OR. Students learn important skills for life, business, and pro-social behavior. LIFE aims to successfully reintegrate formerly incarcerated individuals back into the community and help to establish self-sufficiency and economic stability. MCNW hopes to extend LIFE nationwide to both male and female populations by partnering with other microenterprise or reentry organizations working with the incarcerated population.
Successful integration reduces re-incarceration probability, which decreases the socioeconomic damage leading up to a re-arrest, trial and incarceration. Economic self-sufficiency also minimizes the cost of reliance on state and county social service systems. These benefits, along with productive employment, will extend directly to the children and immediate families of these former prisoners.
