Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 5:20
Empowering Justice-Impacted Individuals: The Role of Credible Messengers in Re-Entry Spaces
That's what we're calling them, but we're also trying to change that. Language matters. I'm sharing this here. I'm not quite sure why, but our conversation kind of pushed us in this direction. As a storyteller and all of this and a credible messenger, that's what is needed in this work, is the telling of the stories
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 2:32
I'm not really sure where this threat is taking me. Rooster. Here's the question. How do credible messengers contribute to the successful reentry of justice impacted individuals? And I'm throwing that question out there so we can have a conversation about it in the context of storytelling and what we do and what's happening here. I posted the master plan, the crystal master plan, and they have facilitators that take this plan, this 15 week program around to folks that are transitioning into society
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 2:38
And that's a policy issue. That's how the laws are set up. So that's where we're talking about big policy changes. So we're working on that. And all of this conversation would obviously help us to get to those changes that will impact how we're doing business in our prisons and in our program. We have implemented the master plan, so we have partnered with these credible messengers, and that is
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
And death doesn't have to be just be in like the sense of someone you know or love died. It could be past version of yourself died. You know, there's so many ways of grief. My point is, no one's going to get out of life without experiencing these things. So I think that mindset of hope and determination, which I've heard you talk about plenty of times, is really what keeps people in or out. I should say out of the victim mentality