River City Correctional Center will offer a special program for individuals with F3 Weapons under Disability charges.
Who: Persons charged with 1st or 2nd F3 Weapons Under Disability or Carrying a Concealed Weapon.
What: 90-day residential program at River City Correctional Center
Goals:
- Empower participants to be change breakers.
- Participants develop skills to address and deal with trauma or gun violence
- Participants develop life skills on how not to need a weapon.
- Learning how to be responsible decision maker.
- Build confidence that will enhance social and emotional self.
Objectives:
- Provide participants with skill set necessary to help them
- Build confidence
- Shift thinking
- Avoid reentering criminal justice system
- Foster positive relationships
- Teach appropriate boundaries.
Implementation:
- Assessments to identify all underlying needs.
- Individualized treatment planning
- Group and individual sessions
- Participants will be in a special CBT T4C cohort that will meet 3 times a week
- Participate in CBT anger management once a week 7 weeks
- Participate in CBT thinking Errors group 2X per week 7 weeks
- Participate in special Trauma Informed Weapons Awareness course 2 X per week 10 weeks
- When anger management is over they will use that time to do job readiness/ employment searching and essential life skills training or focus on education needs.
Trauma / Gun Awareness Class:
- This class will focus on the triggers as to why people feel the need to use/carry guns
- Dig deep into the root causes of why people feel the need to have the protection of guns
- Focus on community culture of gun violence and its effects
- 20 Classes 2 per week
- Class Topics:
- Introduction/ explanation to the class (create a safe place)
- Ice breakers - safe space - create rules for group and class
- What is trauma
- Identifying your trauma - (maybe taking the ACE test)
- Finding your triggers
- Understanding your triggers
- Resilience - ways to deal with your trauma and triggers
- Resilience - ways to deal with trauma and triggers
- Recognizing the situations that puts client in the need for gun protection
- Understanding the need for gun protection and how to change or not put themselves in that environment Also, maybe alternatives to using violence to solve problems?
- Effect of gun violence on yourself and family
- Effect of gun violence on community
- How can you help make better choices to solve the problem?
- Let's take what you learned into the community. I.e. how can you change the need for gun violence?
