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Children that have or have had a parent or parents
incarcerated are 70% more likely to become incarcerated as an adult
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lubbock Receives Federal Grant to Mentor Children of Prisoners
On October 1, 2007, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lubbock received a Mentoring Children of Prisoners federal grant through the Administration on Children, Youth and Families’ Mentoring Children of Prisoners Grant Program in the amount of $100,000 per year for three years. This grant will allow Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lubbock to reach out to the growing need of children left behind when a parent(s) are incarcerated.
"We must break the cycle of incarceration that plagues the children of prisoners so that these children can live a life of hope and opportunity" - Governor Rick Perry
AMACHI-Texas
On February 27,2006, Governor Rick Perry announced the Amachi-Texas program that will match 1,300 children that have a parent incarcerated with a mentor across Texas. With a partnership between Big Brothers Big Sister of Texas, which includes the North Texas area (Dallas, Ft. Worth, Paris, Denton, & Arlington), Abilene, Lubbock, Midland, Amarillo, Hereford, South Texas area (San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Harlingen, & McAllen), Austin, El Paso, Houston, and Galveston agencies; the Governor's office, One Star Foundation, the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice, and the Amachi program.
Amachi is a Nigerian Ibo word
meaning
"Who knows what God
has brought us through this Child."
The AMACHI-TEXAS Mission
The Amachi Texas mission is to stop the inter-generational cycle of crime and incarcerations by providing and facilitating one-to-one mentoring relationships between an at risk child and caring adult.
CHILDREN of INCARCERATED PARENTS:
Children of prisoners are 5 TIMES more likely to commit a violent crime.
Without intervention, 70% of the children of prisoners will follow their parents into prison themselves.
58% of the children of prisoners are under 10
years of age!*
*Bureau of Justice's Incarcerated parent and Their Children
Statistics
"Play fuels your
creativity,
Tickles your inner child,
And nurtures your soul."
-Claudia Black
TEXAS DEPT. OF
CRIMINAL
JUSTICE
Contact Information:
1409 19th Street Suite 204* Lubbock, Texas 79401
Phone (806)763-6131 * Fax
(806)472-0057
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