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  • How prison dog programs transforms the lives of inmates | Animal Wellness Magazine

    How prison dog programs transforms the lives of inmates | Animal Wellness Magazine

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    Discover how prison dog programs help inmates transform their lives through the healing bond with dogs.

    When it comes to the life-changing impact that dogs can have on humans, probably the most striking examples come from prison inmates. These hurt, hardened, embittered individuals frequently respond more positively to dogs than they do to their fellow humans. Thanks to a growing number of prison dog programs, more and more offenders are turning their lives around.

    Insecure attachments can predispose people to criminal activity

    According to attachment theory, babies form a secure attachment to their mothers. Mothers tune into their babies so they can fulfill their needs. Inconsistent care from the mother, however, leads to an insecure attachment.

    “These relationship styles become templates for subsequent bonds,” says Colleen Dell, a professor at the University of Saskatoon who studies the human-animal bond. “Children with secure attachments connect authentically with others. Those with insecure ties are more anxious to belong, and more likely to get involved in criminal activity.”

    Dogs offer non-judgmental support

    This is where dogs come in. By offering non-judgmental comfort and support to prison inmates, a dog becomes a surrogate attachment figure.

    “The dog gives you attention that you didn’t have to do anything for,” Colleen says. “That would be the definition of helpful parenting.”

    Once the dogs gain their trust, offenders tend to open up more to other humans. As testimony, let’s take a look at two prison dog programs — The Doghouse and Marley’s Mutts Pawsitive Change Prison Program. Both programs are howling successes.

    The Doghouse – Fraser Valley Institution, Abbottsford, BC

    Odin is terrified by the unfamiliar noises in the prison – his body is shaking and his tail is between his legs. Inmate Amanda can relate – she too is scared of loud sounds. She takes the dog back to her cottage and cuddles with him until he’s calm. They bond instantly.

    “When I’m comforting Odin,” says Amanda, “he’s also comforting me.”

    Amanda is one of roughly 250 inmates who have participated in The Doghouse, a vocational training program for offenders at the Fraser Valley Institution. The program provides grooming, boarding, and dog training services for the public, and also teaches basic obedience to rescue dogs from the Langley Animal Protection Society. The program also benefits inmates in a huge way.

    Offenders not only learn techniques such as recognizing animal body language and practicing dog first aid, but also acquire skills such as communication, discipline and responsibility, according to Alicia Santella, manager of the program. These abilities can transfer into any job they pursue upon release.

    Amanda never had the opportunity to gain soft skills. Now 38, she grew up neglected by her parents, who favored her siblings.

    “I just felt alone all the time,” she says. Incarceration made her feel even lonelier, as she became estranged from her relatives. She grew deeply depressed and rarely left her room.

    But the Doghouse prison dog program snapped her out of her doldrums. The woman who used to sleep in every day now rises at dawn to feed the dogs in the kennel. Her people skills have improved, and she’s now able to handle “difficult” co-workers. Most importantly, the dogs have affirmed Amanda’s intrinsic worth.

    “They just love me, no matter what I do,” she says.

    Program participants’ self-worth rises alongside their accomplishments, adds Alicia. Most of The Doghouse’s clients are pleased with the superior care their dogs receive, and contact with supportive members of the public “can help build [the inmates’] confidence in themselves,” Alicia says.

    Amanda has blossomed since joining The Doghouse. Many clients have praised her work, telling her their dogs don’t want to leave her care and come home. Amanda has also forged some close relationships amongst her fellow dog-lovers, some of whom she now considers her new family.

    “I’m happier,” she says. “I’m smiling all the time.”

    Marley’s Mutts Pawsitive Change Prison Program – North Kern State Prison, Delano, CA 

    Burly inmate Melvin struts across the yard at North Kern State Prison and encounters a rare situation – a creature who defies him. Leila, his first dog in Marley’s Mutts Pawsitive Change Prison Program, is an unruly poodle who barks at staff and tackles other animals. Melvin reins her in by teaching her to sit still on a mat during the dogs’ playtime. He earns Leila’s obedience, and discovers how to mold an animal using connection rather than coercion.

    This prison dog program, which pairs death row dogs in shelters with incarcerated inmates inside California state prisons, has brought redemption to over 1,000 humans and more than 500 dogs.

    During the 14-week program, inmate students learn dog training techniques. The rehabilitation is bi-directional. The under-socialized dogs are mostly unadoptable and slated for euthanasia when they first enter the Pawsitive Change program, according to founder Zach Skow. But by the end, they’ve become model canine citizens and most find forever homes.

    Meanwhile, the inmates learn empathy as they recognize themselves in their abandoned and often abused charges. Empathy was in short supply during Melvin’s childhood. He was only five when his father was murdered.

    “That left me with a void,” he says, and an “unbearable pain” that he suppressed. But the loss made him more vulnerable to peer pressure, and at age 11, he joined a gang that schooled him in drug-dealing and violence. “If I had to make a statement, it wasn’t by talking,” says Melvin.

    The Pawsitive Change program challenges these machismo attitudes. It teaches inmates how to access troubling emotions such as sadness or anger before they transmit them to the dogs, says Zach. When students are faced with unproductive feelings, they’re encouraged to process them by talking to a teammate or just taking a break.

    Students also learn to tune in to the dogs’ experiences. If a dog becomes aggressive when touched, for example, inmates are invited to view this as a manifestation of fear rather than a personal insult, says dog trainer Nhut Vo. Students learn to accommodate these frightened animals, using a longer leash to give them more space. This flexible approach to relationships can also be applied to human interactions, Nhut advises.

    As his successes mounted, Melvin’s self-esteem increased. Watching the dogs improve kindled hope in his own ability to change.

    The work also fostered a sense of purpose. Even though he was still in prison, Melvin had found a way to “give back,” he says. “It was fulfilling.”

    Collaboration is another outcome of the Pawsitive Change program. While the prison system is racially segregated, the participants have to cooperate to train the animals, says Nhut. Inmates frequently pool their money to buy treats for the dogs and celebrate their adoptions with brownies.

    These lessons have generated impressive outcomes. Most graduates of this prison dog program find work in the pet industry after they’re released, says Zach. Not one has reoffended.

    Today, Melvin is thriving. Since his release from prison eight months ago, he’s reconnected with his family and procured work as a dog trainer. “I’m thankful just to be in the sun, watching dogs play,” he says. “It’s beautiful.”

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  • Column: Tinkering with Prop. 47 won't lower crime. Fixing San Quentin will

    Column: Tinkering with Prop. 47 won't lower crime. Fixing San Quentin will

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    In 2020, after the tragic murder of George Floyd, there was a moment when it seemed as if America, California included, was ready to reform our broken and discriminatory criminal justice system.

    In 2024, as the California Legislature returns from vacation, criminal justice is once again at the forefront. But now, the proverbial pendulum has swung and a new tough-on-crime era seems to be creeping up through the cracks of our good intentions.

    Proposition 47, which helped lower California’s prison population by changing certain nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, is likely to be rolled back, if not undone this year.

    The California Highway Patrol has been called in to stop retail theft, despite the fact that no one is entirely sure just how big a problem it is.

    Drug dealers are being charged with murder as deaths from fentanyl overdoses continue to spike, a new tactic in a new war on drugs, little different from the one that led to overincarceration of Black and brown people during the crack epidemic of the ’80s when we insisted we could arrest our way out of poverty and addiction.

    It is a troubling reversal of both attitude and reform that, as history has proven, will not lead to the safer communities we all want.

    But what is about to happen inside San Quentin State Prison has the potential to fundamentally change crime and punishment in the Golden State, and beyond.

    Because as much as we want to believe that a single law, more police or a tougher sentence can protect us, the truth is that the best way to cut crime is to stop it from happening in the first place — not with the pounding fist of punishment that for decades has left us with jails and prisons where more than a third of people return within a few years of release.

    But instead by helping people to find other paths, and giving them opportunities to survive in ways that uplift rather than prey upon our communities — an approach with proven results both in the U.S. and other countries, where incarceration decades ago embraced rehabilitation not as an option but a mandate.

    Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he wanted to transform San Quentin, California’s oldest and most famous prison, into a new kind of incarceration facility modeled after Scandinavian principles of rehabilitation, where that mandate for changing lives is written into law.

    With his love of catchphrases, he dubbed it the California Model and left the details for later. On Friday, a long-awaited explanation of what the California Model will look like in practice was released, providing both an ideal and a blueprint for what is a radical, subversive and important shift in what it means to be in prison.

    “This is a big deal,” Darrell Steinberg told me. He helped chair the committee that created the recommendations, and is the mayor of Sacramento, a city as plagued as any by the drug addiction, mental illness and homelessness that have driven much of the shift in attitudes around crime. So he knows as well as any that voters want results, not experiments.

    “This will enhance public safety for the self-evident reason that when people have the tools to succeed on the outside they will have better lives and are much less likely to commit another crime,” he said.

    It is visionary, he said, but also doable.

    A core part of the transition involves changing the job of correctional officers from enforcers and adversaries to participants in rehabilitation, a metamorphosis that the union representing correctional officers supports. Under the plan, officers would take college-level classes on trauma-informed practices, and be expected to interact with inmates as mentors and guides.

    San Quentin itself would also receive a makeover, albeit one curtailed by our current economic realities. Cramped cells that currently house two people in 46 square feet, about half the size of a decent bathroom, would be removed to allow for single-occupancy spaces that Steinberg said are the minimum dignity demands.

    Correctional officers would also see an upgrade. Housing prices are so high in Marin County, where San Quentin is located, that it is impossible for many to live close enough for a daily shift (a two-bedroom averages more than $3,000 a month), leaving them with hours-long commutes.

    So some officers have resorted to “dry camping” in trailers with homeless-like conditions that lack running water, electricity or even sewers. They are packing a week’s worth of work into a few days just to get by. The new plan would give correctional officers a campground with basic facilities and access to showers and safe spaces to relax — perhaps making the job less stressful.

    For incarcerated people, the change will mean that on Day 1 of their sentences, there is a coordinated effort to arrange services — mental health care, education, job training, substance abuse treatment. And that there are people to implement those plans, and support them.

    While that seems basic, it doesn’t happen now. People are largely left to their own devices to navigate an opaque and inefficient system that is so archaic that some of it isn’t even computerized. Wait lists are long and information can be hard to come by.

    If the ideas laid out in the plan makes it through the upcoming budget negotiations (in a year with a large and unexpected deficit), it will be a culture change inside the most infamous prison in the country’s second-largest state prison system (Texas is the only state with a larger incarcerated population).

    Though taking the California Model from paper to practice is the work of years, the proposal for San Quentin has the potential to be the largest and most meaningful criminal justice reform in decades — if we get it right, which of course is always an if when it comes to government.

    But it is a big swing with the potential for real payoff — not the knee-jerk anger and fear of proposals like gutting Proposition 47, which will only repeat the mistakes of the past.

    There will always be predators and there will always be crime. And admittedly, it all sounds touchy-feely and nebulous, like we are about to spend a bunch on money on holding criminals’ hands while they talk about their childhoods and get their GED.

    And to be honest, that’s part of it, one we shouldn’t ignore.

    At its root, the California Model is about dignity and compassion, creating policy around the belief that healing isn’t just for the innocent, and it isn’t soft.

    Fixing humans, especially ones broken enough to hurt others, is the hardest of tasks.

    But it can be done.

    And if California turns San Quentin into a place where that happens, we will all be safer.

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  • Former L.A. County sheriff's deputy, sentenced to death for murder, dies in prison

    Former L.A. County sheriff's deputy, sentenced to death for murder, dies in prison

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    A former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy convicted and sentenced to death for murder died in custody Thursday, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

    Stephen M. Redd was pronounced dead after prison staff found him unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, where he’s been incarcerated since 1997. He was 78.

    His cause of death remains under investigation.

    Redd was sentenced to death after being convicted in 1997 of first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, second-degree burglary, second-degree robbery and attempted murder.

    The sentence stemmed from a robbery Redd committed at a Yorba Linda supermarket in 1994.

    During the robbery, Redd shot and killed the store’s manager, 34-year-old Timothy McVeigh. Redd evaded arrest for eight months before he was arrested in San Francisco.

    Redd’s death sentence has been suspended since 2006, the year California last executed a prisoner. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a formal moratorium on the death penalty in 2019.

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  • Getting Sober: Finding Your Way

    Getting Sober: Finding Your Way

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    Brooke Aymes started drinking as a way to deal with the negative emotions that arose after the death of her cousin from suicide. Then it became a social activity — “a way to fit in and to feel good about myself,” she says.

    Social drinking led to sneaking water bottles filled with alcohol into high school. Eventually Aymes found that she couldn’t pull herself away from the bottle.

    Nearly 15 million people use alcohol to the point where it has harmful effects on their life and they can’t stop drinking. Those with alcohol use disorder have many treatments to choose from, including 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), inpatient rehabilitation centers, and medication.

    Some methods work better for certain people than for others.

    At her parents’ urging, Aymes went to detoxes, rehabilitation programs, outpatient facilities, and 12-step programs. “None of those things worked until I was able to have the desire to not want to drink, and to have the willingness to follow through with doing work on myself.” she says.

    Aymes eventually used techniques she’d learned from the programs she’d done to find her way to recovery on her own. Today, she is a licensed drug and alcohol counselor in Oaklyn, NJ.

    “I do not believe recovery is one-size-fits-all,” she says. “There are a lot of roads to get there.”

    12-Step Programs

    AA is one of the best-known and most established alcohol recovery programs. Many other programs follow its 12-step method, which relies on 12 principles, the first three of which are admitting your powerlessness over alcohol, believing that a higher power can stop your drinking, and turning over your will to that higher power.

    It’s a system that centers on spiritual belief, which made Fay Zenoff uncomfortable because she hadn’t been brought up with religion. For her, alcohol had become a way to deal with the “tremendous grief and loss” from the death of her older brother and her parents’ divorce.

    By high school, Zenoff was a blackout drinker. But it was only at age 40, after two children and a divorce, that she realized that she couldn’t keep up the façade anymore that she was OK.

    Zenoff says that when she first walked into a 12-step program, she cried. “I didn’t see reflections of myself there.” But after 6 months of “white-knuckling it” on her own, she went back.

    She realized she had more in common with the people in the program than she’d thought. “They were talking about solutions, and they had stories that were similar to my lived experience,” she says. “I actually felt hope for the first time.”

    Zenoff learned the coping skills and resiliency she needed to break the behaviors that were controlling her life. She has been in recovery for almost 15 years, which she says is a continuing process. Now she’s a recovery strategist who helps others learn how to thrive after leaving rehab.

    A 12-step program also helped Ty Reed stop drinking, but only after he had hit bottom. Once a successful mortgage salesman, Reed had been living “a double life.” After work, he’d go out drinking late into the night. Eventually, he also got hooked on crack and meth.

    By 2014, Reed was homeless. He was in and out of jail and mental institutions. He even tried to take his own life. He credits the sense of community in his 12-step program with helping him stop using alcohol and drugs as well as keeping him from slipping back into a relapse.

    Getting a job was also instrumental to his recovery. “It gave me structure,” he says. “Having responsibility and an obligation to show up somewhere, and learning to be dependable again were critical.” The company he has since founded, Recovery Career Services, helps other people in recovery rebuild their careers.

    Therapy and Support

    Ashley Loeb Blassingame’s “drinking career” started early. At 7, she would steal beers from her family’s fridge and drink them alone in her closet. By high school, she was filling water bottles with wine or vodka and downing them before school. She also used drugs and got into trouble with the law.

    Therapy helped her understand the reasons for her drinking. “I was using it to medicate feelings of discomfort. I was using it to medicate anxiety,” she says. Two types were helpful: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which addresses the harmful thoughts and beliefs that trigger the urge to drink, and another kind called eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).

    Therapy, plus support from her peers, has kept her sober for 15 years. Now, Loeb Blassingame is a certified alcohol and drug counselor and co-founder of Lionrock, an online substance abuse counseling program.

    Inpatient Programs

    For some people with alcohol use disorder, trying to recover at home or in an outpatient program may not be enough. Inpatient programs offer a higher level of care, including detox to ease the withdrawal process.

    Patrick Venzke ended up in an inpatient facility in Jacksonville, FL, a decision that he says probably saved his life. The German-born former NFL player had been investing his football earnings to buy and flip luxury houses when the 2008 housing crisis hit and his life crashed down around him. “I was living the American dream, and within 3 years we were on food stamps and had to file for bankruptcy,” he says.

    “I used alcohol like a tool, like a painkiller, just to get through one more day,” he says. By 2014, he was drinking two to three bottles of wine a day.

    The inpatient program helped him get sober. Then the NFL Alumni Association got him into the Desert Hope Treatment Center in Las Vegas, where he now continues his recovery while working as a patient liaison.

    Venzke is 5½ months into his program, but he realizes that recovery is a long journey. “It’s not like I’m healed,” he says. “It’s a lifelong process for me.”

    Sober Living Homes

    For Joe Marks, drinking had become so ingrained that 90 days in a treatment facility barely made a dent. “Two weeks later, I was going to pick up a pack of cigarettes, and what do I have in my hands? Two half-gallons of booze. It started all over again,” he says.

    More than 35 years of drinking had brought him to the brink of death. He would drink to the point where he passed out, only to wake up and start drinking again. “Alcohol had hijacked my brain,” he says. “I needed to get off alcohol for a long enough time to let those pathways find the right way to go.”

    His rehab counselor suggested that he move into a sober living housing community in Hickory, NC. “There was enough stability, and it put structure into my life,” he says.

    It took a couple of years, and making connections with like-minded people, to help him get sober. “I discovered a new life,” he says. “They took me by the hand and walked with me when I couldn’t walk on my own.”

    Today, Marks has found a renewed sense of purpose in helping others. As an ambassador for the Talk It Out initiative, speaking to young people about the dangers of underage drinking is a big part of his recovery.

    Do It Yourself

    Some people prefer to stop drinking in their own way, like actress, filmmaker, and podcast host Raeden Greer. Tired of the negative consequences (including a DUI and two arrests) from her drinking, she got sober by managing her anxiety and by substituting new rituals for the ones that used to involve alcohol.

    “Five o’clock is still going to roll around, regardless of whether you’re drinking or not. So what are you going to do now at 5, because you’ve got to do something different,” she says. When 5 o’clock does roll around, she drinks sparkling water with fruit juice or herbal tea. And she’s replaced the time she used to spend drinking with more positive pursuits focused on self-care.

    Greer takes recovery one day at a time, and tries not to put too much pressure on herself to never drink again. “The longer I go, the more I feel like I probably won’t ever do it again. But if I do at some point, I don’t want to create an environment for myself where I feel ashamed and … like a failure that I didn’t live up to this huge expectation that I put on myself,” she says.

    Find What Works for You

    Recovery from alcohol use happens for each person in their own way. Don’t beat yourself up if you don’t succeed the first time. See it as a step in the right direction.

    “It is very common for people to try recovery multiple times before it takes hold,” Reed says. “It’s tough not to be discouraged, but every time we fail, it’s actually an opportunity for growth.”

    If you or someone you love has trouble with alcohol use, call the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA) National Helpline at 800-662-HELP (800-662-4357).

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  • Texas Judge and Sheriff Create Specialized Treatment Program for Incarcerated Veterans

    Texas Judge and Sheriff Create Specialized Treatment Program for Incarcerated Veterans

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    updated: Nov 7, 2018


    MCKINNEY, Texas, November 7, 2018 (Newswire.com)
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     VALOR (Veterans Accessing Lifelong Opportunities for Rehabilitation) is a groundbreaking program that offers work opportunities and extensive treatment alternatives for felony and misdemeanor Veteran offenders who either face the prospect of incarceration or who are already incarcerated. This program is available for veterans from across the State of Texas. The program is an unprecedented collaborative effort between the North Texas Regional Veterans Court, Collin County Community Supervision and Corrections Department (CSCD) and the Collin County Sheriff’s Office.

    The VALOR Program provides Veteran-specific services and programming for offenders who need a supervised, intensive, and structured mental health/addiction treatment program to successfully reintegrate into civilian society. Treatment within the facility includes group counseling related to Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD), Military Sexual Trauma (MST), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), individual counseling, life/parenting skills, anger management, substance abuse/addiction therapy, Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), AA and NA support groups, Chaplain services and employment services.

    While presiding over Veterans Court I realized that there was a gap in services for Veterans who become incarcerated. Rather than having the Veteran just sitting there doing time, I wanted a way to provide substantive treatment for those struggling Veterans with invisible wounds. There is no doubt in my mind that the VALOR program will be a model for the Country.

    John Roach, Texas State Judge, North Texas Veterans Court

    The program was created by Judge John Roach of the North Texas Veterans Court. “While presiding over Veterans Court I realized that there was a gap in services for Veterans who become incarcerated,” Roach said. “Rather than having the Veteran just sitting there doing time, I wanted a way to provide substantive treatment for those struggling Veterans with invisible wounds. There is no doubt in my mind that the VALOR program will be a model for the Country.”

    The VALOR program is rehabilitation (physically, mentally, emotionally, morally, spiritually) and reintegration focused and is designed to help Veteran defendants develop better decision-making and coping skills, provide them with the necessary tools to enhance their well-being, and assist with their reintegration into society.

    In the VALOR program, detained Veterans are housed together, mimicking the unit structure familiar to Veterans. Veterans are surrounded by others who are suffering from similar mental illnesses, substance abuse issues, and unhealthy coping mechanisms and who understand the sacrifice of military service. Putting them together allows them to begin to heal through unit bonding, allowing them to be open and vulnerable and to assist one another. Veteran-specific programming is offered by qualified treatment providers, who have experience working with Veterans or are Veterans themselves, providing an integrative and holistic approach for re-entry based on treatment plans developed by licensed clinicians to comprehensively address their individual needs.

    The program will have its opening ceremony on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, at 2 p.m. It will be held at the Collin County Minimum Security Facility located at 4800 Community, McKinney, Texas and will initially be able to treat 15 Veterans at a time with plans to be able to house 30 within the year.

    PRESS CONTACT – Brennan Rivera-Jones, 469-974-7731, brijones@co.collin.tx.us

    Source: North Texas Veterans Court

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  • Increases in the Global Demand for NeuroPhysics Therapy Signal Urgent Need for NeuroPhysics Therapy Practitioners

    Increases in the Global Demand for NeuroPhysics Therapy Signal Urgent Need for NeuroPhysics Therapy Practitioners

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    GOLD COAST, Australia, September 25, 2017 (Newswire.com)
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     A faster-paced drum beat of reports on the remarkable health benefits of NeuroPhysics Therapy has noticeably increased global awareness of this mild yet radically effective psychophysical therapy. People with mild to serious health conditions continue to report how quickly they achieve results and the long-lasting lifestyle benefits of the therapy.

    NeuroPhysics Therapy (NPT) has been in practice by its Australia-based founder Ken Ware and his colleagues for more than 30 years. NPT is recognized as having assisted large numbers of people to regain control over their physical and mental health and well-being, even after suffering from often-serious long-term chronic conditions that conventional medicine has not been able to treat effectively.

    We have a challenge with the high demand for the therapy and the insufficient supply of therapists to meet that demand outside of Australia and New Zealand.

    Sara Ross PHD, CEO of Neurotricional Sciences Education

    This expanding global awareness of the therapy leads to rising numbers of inquiries coming in from all over the globe, spokesperson for the NeuroPhysics Therapy Institute and CEO of Neurotricional Sciences Education, U.S.-based Sara Nora Ross, Ph.D. confirmed. She said inquiries to participate in the therapy first rose significantly when Ware assisted world-renowned Paralympian John Maclean to begin to walk again in only three days of the therapy. Maclean had been mainly wheelchair-confined for 25 years. Following additional sessions with Ware, he completed an able-bodied triathlon 18 months later. 60 minutes Australia picked up the story in which the spinal cord injury experts hailed Maclean’s walking again as a miracle.

    News of the famed paraplegic walking again quickly spread and since then John Maclean’s inspirational book titled ‘How Far Can You Go?’ has further-accelerated the international and domestic inquiries from people wishing to access the therapy.  

    “We have a challenge with the high demand for the therapy and the insufficient supply of therapists to meet that demand outside of Australia and New Zealand,” Dr. Ross said. “It’s troubling when this non-invasive, non-medicinal, non-manipulative therapy with an amazing track record should be available to people all over the world, in both developed and less-developed countries, yet we don’t have enough therapists in training to fan across the world to realize the United Nations’ principle of the basic human right to health and well-being. We are convinced of the real contribution Neuro Physics Therapy will make toward realizing that world health goal and believe people everywhere deserve access to it.” That means getting the word out about the NPT therapist education programs is paramount, as is attracting philanthropic interests to sponsor candidates with limited means to enroll in NPT education.

    Dr. Ross said that there are unprecedented career opportunities surrounding NeuroPhysics Therapy and she urges those who seek careers in human health services to consider becoming a qualified NeuroPhysics Therapy practitioner and for sponsors and those interested to invest in start-ups of NPT professional settings around the world. NPT education uses best practices in online adult learning combined with in-person training and a practicum period. Interested individuals should visit https://www.neurophysicstherapy.global/careers-education for more information.  

    Media Contact: Dr. Sara Ross, Email: sara@neurophysicstherapy.global

    Source: NeuroPhysics Therapy Institute and Neurotricional Sciences Education

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  • Bellefit Maternity Partners With Susan B. Anthony Recovery Center to Aid in Women’s Rehabilitation Efforts

    Bellefit Maternity Partners With Susan B. Anthony Recovery Center to Aid in Women’s Rehabilitation Efforts

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    Weston, FL, March 23, 2017 (Newswire.com)
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     Bellefit Maternity is no stranger to the challenges many women face. Its line of postpartum girdles is just one way the company has been making a positive impact in the lives of new moms. Launched in 2008, Bellefit girdles have helped thousands of women around the world not only find comfort after having a baby but discover happiness and enjoy more confidence in their bodies.

    The family-owned company has expanded its outreach even further through a new partnership with the Susan B. Anthony Recovery Center in Pembroke Pines, Fla. The SBA Center has been providing rehabilitation from substance abuse to expectant mothers and women with children since 1995. One of only a few full-service recovery centers in the United States, the Susan B. Anthony Recovery Center provides residential and outpatient treatment in a loving, structured environment, where a woman can receive the support she needs while living with and caring for her children.

    Our hope for women at the Susan B. Anthony Recovery Center is that they continue to find the courage, strength & support to improve the quality of their lives, so they can give the best of themselves to their children.

    Cynthia Suarez, Bellefit Founder

    On March 3, Bellefit Maternity began an ongoing initiative to donate Postpartum Recovery Girdles to Women at the SBA Recovery Center who are expecting a baby or have recently given birth. The company’s general manager, Andy Suarez, and public relations manager, Carolina Suarez-Garcia, met with the residents and shared Bellefit’s story and provided education about the postpartum benefits of using a Bellefit girdle.  

    Additionally, Bellefit donated $1000 to the SBA Recovery Center’s ‘Room to Grow’ Program. This program is raising funds to build a new room & board wing at the SBA Recovery Center which will increase the number of women who can be admitted to the Center.

    Bellefit founder Cynthia Suarez recalled how much her own daughter struggled after having children, so she developed the product to alleviate the discomfort of an incision from a C-section and also provide a much-needed boost of confidence to recovering moms.

    “Being a mom of four and a grandmother of seven, I know, first-hand, how challenging motherhood can be,” Suarez said.

    It was through the Center’s partnership with The Rotary Club of Weston that Suarez’s son, Andy, a Rotarian, met Whitney Hughson, associate director of marketing at the SBARC. When Hughson shared the stories of moms who struggle with addiction while trying to raise their children and how the Center helps women lead healthier, more productive lives, Suarez knew Bellefit needed to get involved.

    “Bellefit Girdles are known to make moms’ lives easier after childbirth and give them a boost of confidence during a time when women are focused on their baby and usually feel guilty about caring for themselves,” Suarez said.

    Helping to reduce uterus swelling by safely supporting and compressing the abdominal and lumbar regions, the girdles provide a faster and more comfortable postpartum recovery for those who have undergone a C-section or natural childbirth, or for those experiencing diastasis recti or pain.

    Suarez called the partnership a perfect match.

    “Our hope for women at the Susan B. Anthony Recovery Center is that they continue to find the courage, strength and support to improve the quality of their lives, so they can give the best of themselves to their children,” she said. With housing for approximately 60 women at any given time during rehabilitation and an outpatient program that extends far beyond that, the Center is certain to see positive benefits from the generous Bellefit partnership.

    Information to Donate time, money or items the Susan B. Anthony Recovery Center can be found at www.susanbanthonycenter.org or by calling (866) 641-8986.

    To learn about The Rotary Club of Weston’s community involvement and global outreach, please visit www.westonrotary.com.  The Rotary Club of Weston was chartered in 1986 and has raised over $1 million dollars in Scholarships to deserving Broward County Seniors and over $600,000 for local charities, non-profit organizations and The Rotary Foundation. The 30th Annual Golf tournament will be held at the Weston Hills Country Club on April 3, 2017 and the 20th Annual Run for Tomorrow will be held at Cypress Bay High School on December 10th, 2017.  All proceeds from these events will continue to help continue Rotary’s mission and raise funds for community and international projects.

    For more information about Bellefit Maternity’s Medical-Grade Childbirth Recovery products, please visit www.bellefit.com.

    Source: Bellefit Maternity

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  • Do You Want to Do Something Effective to Stop Crime?

    Do You Want to Do Something Effective to Stop Crime?

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    Volunteers at the Criminon Center in Clearwater, Florida, say that with a few hours each week you can do something effective to reduce crime. Help close the “revolving door” through which prisoners return to a life of crime and wind up back in jail.

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    Jun 10, 2016


    Clearwater, Florida, June 10, 2016 (Newswire.com)
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    More than 10.1 million people are held in penal institutions internationally, with 2.2 million serving time in the United States. Of the 100,000 inmates in Florida’s prison system, nearly one in three released will be behind bars again within three years. And Pinellas County ranks second in the state in the number of juvenile arrests.

    Criminon Florida, a criminal rehabilitation program, says that with even a minimal investment of time, anyone can do something effective to reduce crime. The group holds a weekly open house at their new headquarters in Downtown Clearwater to introduce the community to the program and encourage new volunteers to join.

    The Florida group has guided some 20,000 inmates through courses designed to help them make a fresh start as productive members of society.

    Criminon Florida headquarters is one of six new centers opened in Clearwater, Florida, in July 2015 to house the humanitarian and social betterment programs supported by the Church of Scientology. In the center, 83 volunteers invest some 1,000 hours each month, assisting more than 900 inmates in 101 prisons in Florida by supervising them through correspondence courses.  Criminon also conducts onsite programs for groups of inmates in eight Florida prisons, some of them supervised by the inmates themselves.

    The weekly Criminon open houses are attended by those interested in volunteering and others who simply want to find out more. They are joined by local businesspeople and rehabilitation specialists interested in supporting or implementing the program to tackle this urgent social problem.

    Criminon, meaning “without crime,” is based on the discovery by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard that the path to true rehabilitation is for the offender to “find out when he lost his personal pride.” Mr. Hubbard states, “Rehabilitate that one point and you don’t have a criminal anymore.”

    Today, Criminon is active in some 1,000 prisons and correctional facilities worldwide, with nearly 13,000 inmates enrolled in the program.

    Source: ScientologyNews.org

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