Reentry Crisis Counseling provides returning citizens restorative ministries within the spiritual realm of criminal recovery, relapse prevention, recidivism and reintegration into society. We provide a means of support to Men and Women who were formally incarcerated as they reintegrate in to society and become stable citizens through Care Coordination, Mentoring Relationships and Peer Navigation.
As one studies the field of Reentry Crisis Counseling, they will discover that most returning citizens are misguided, and endeavored to adapt prison culture to what they call the "free world" and has failed, has faced so many barriers that they begin to believe it is better to go back to a life of crime and prison - to give into low self-esteem and depression. This usually leads them into developing a schemata of arrogance, hypersensitivity and perfectionist attitudes. Their minds fail to comprehend any belief system or spiritual guidance. They separate their emotional health from spirituality as they choose to relapse back to a life of criminality and recidivism. [Paul E. Martin, Ph.D.]
Seldom is a paroled or released person prepared to cope with the differences that exist between prison subculture and the culture of society. Though most think they are, they are not!
Prison is not an institution. A home, a Church, a hospital, or a school is an institution. A prison is a prison. It is a subculture that has its own class system, language, monetary system, laws, judicial system, education system, police force, clothing, industry, food service, medical and therapeutic services. It is not a democracy. All programing revolves around security. Prisons are managed through manipulation and intimidation to arrive at domination. Men and Women who are incarcerated do not become institutionalized, they become "prisonized". They become like the environment they live in. Prison is such a pervasive environment that it can have an adverse affect on everyone under its influence.
The objective of Reentry Crisis Counseling is to help a Men and Women formally incarcerated identify and process the issues that are hindering a successful reentry. Resolution, not management, of this crisis is of critical importance. The goal of RCC is to restore Men and Woman formally incarcerated as quickly as possible to at lease a pre-crisis level of functioning. The process is not one of recovery, but ReClamation.