So amazing to be on a panel at NBRS with the amazing panelists and for the indomitable Stacey Borden as art , a documentary and many questions flew throughout the room about the uillusion of “freedom for all.”
Here are pictures from the event taken by the wonderous Lee Francois who also produced the documentary.
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Please read and share my newest for Boston Institute of Nonprofit Journalism on Stacey Borden and her newest venture: Struggles In Reentry: A New Chapter For New Beginnings. It begins:
“On Saturday, April 5, Stacey Borden will begin her newest journey to provide educational programs, therapeutic services, and skills for those coming home from prison as well as for other formerly-incarcerated and system-impacted people.
Borden is the founder and, up until recently, was the executive director of New Beginnings Reentry Services (NBRS), which provided a home for women exiting prison. NBRS will transform from an overnight residential program for females into an all-gender day program and Borden will continue on with her vision of repairing harm and healing trauma. According to Borden, the New Beginnings Reentry Day Program will offer “healing spaces, mental health and substance use counseling, art and music therapy, yoga, and computer and financial literacy.”
In an interview with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Borden, not only formerly incarcerated but also an award-winning activist, said, “I wasn’t getting enough funding to hire the right individuals to give the women the programs and services they deserve coming out of prison. Instead of feeling like a failure, I reached out and got help from mentors, and one day, woke up and said, Let me be a day center.” MORE
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Thanks to Mary Lasley for this beautiful book trailer for Motherlove, available now for FREE at Concord Free Press.
I begin talking about Motherlove at about 29 minutes into this video.The video is called I Could Hear Their Voices Speaking Out of the Darkness.