History & Core Values

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Family Support Group

Family / Inmate Communication

Families of incarcerated individuals are often treated as criminals themselves. There is a continuum of crises for families beginning with the crime, trauma of arrest, incarceration, court proceedings, media attention, abandonment and humiliation issues, pre-release stress and reunification. Through the Family/Inmate Communication program families are provided with information and referral (both generic and specific to the criminal justice system), crisis response, weekly family support, a special visiting program for children and on-going family/inmate communication.

Unlike other catastrophes that can overtake a family, incarceration is not generally viewed sympathetically by the community at large. We provide an effective conduit between families, inmates, community resources and institutional programs. Examples of daily activities include everything from the mundane to the more serious: Property release to family, informal counseling, money release for paying rent, drug rehab referral, location of family members in prison, information on visiting, contacting jail medical for family concerns etc . . . . .

In addition our Institutional Representative has full access to all three detention facilities in Stanislaus County . ( County Jail , Public Safety Center and Men's Honor Farm). They visit 5 days per week on the family's behalf. Information is brought in or taken out (abiding at all times by facility rules and regulations). This one on one access to custody staff and inmates provides a more in depth service to families who are unable to have the contact needed to stay connected.