BRINGING PREVENTION EDUCATION TO INCARCERATED WOMEN

Keeping Them Safe is always looking for a way to interrupt the cycle of abuse in society. One group that is among those most profoundly impacted by child sexual abuse is women in prisons. Those who work with these women estimate that as many as 90% of them were molested as children and, in our experience, most of those were not the first in their families dealing with these issues. Working with a local organization committed to ending abuse of all kinds, My Kidz International, and with the support of Empower Adults - Protect Children, Keeping Them Safe has developed a presentation for women in prisons that empowers them to develop skills to create safe environments for their children when they get out of prison and to work with the adults that currently have responsibility for their children to create safer environments for them while they are still incarcerated. The program is being piloted in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and will include training staff in the prisons to continue providing the program on an ongoing basis.