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For over 30 years, Centerforce has provided groundbreaking social service programs to those impacted by incarceration.
Committed to successful programming, Centerforce has documented the effectiveness of many of its programs and has become one of the nation's leading agencies implementing evidence-based programs for those incarcerated and their loved ones.
Highlighted Division Programs
Children and Family Services
Prisoner & Transitional Services
Children and Family Services
- Families Moving Forward
The Families Moving Forward program provides intensive family reunification services with clients and their family members at the Marin County Jail.
Program participants develop and complete family reunification service plans, attend weekly parenting groups, access community resource and support systems and as a
result incarcerated parents and their families stabilize.
- Leaders in Future Environments (LIFE) Project
Leaders in Future Environments (LIFE) Project aims to strengthen and promote leadership in youth throughout the San Francisco Bay Area who have been impacted by parental incarceration. The LIFE Project provides one-on-one mentoring, group activities every six weeks, and an annual retreat.
Flyers available in pdf:
Become a Mentor with the LIFE Project
Become a Mentee with the LIFE Project
LIFE Project Brochure
- San Quentin State Prison Visitors' Program
Families, friends and loved ones often travel hours to San Quentin for a visit and need a place to rest, change clothes or have their children visit and then spend some
time with their loved one alone. Centerforce operates "The House on the Hill" Visitor's Center outside the gates of San Quentin State Prison.
The visitor center provides a comfortable place to sit and unwind, a clothing exchange, transportation and supervised activities for children during visiting hours.
- The Yellow House at San Quentin
Centerforce operates a second site immediately outside of the gates of San Quentin called the "Yellow House".
Projects that operate out of the "Yellow House" include the First United Methodist Church's First Friday Lunch Program and the San Quentin Families Project.
The First Friday Lunch Program provides lunches for families waiting to visit loved ones.
The San Quentin Families Project seeks to support family communication by providing letter writing kits and postage to families and incarcerated fathers.
- Live, Love and Learn Project
The Live, Love & Learn (LLL) Project is a peer education program for women visiting loved ones at San Quentin State Prison. Trained peer health educators provide information and support to other women visitors about a wide range of women’s health issues, including HIV. Program activities include outreach, weekly group meetings, health fairs, and one-to-one peer education. In the LLL Project increases participants’ knowledge, skills, and intentions to protect themselves and their partners. Approximately 200 participants attended LLL project activities in 2008.
Prison and Transitional Services
- Peer Education
The Peer Education Program currently operates at three institutions, San Quentin State Prison, the Central California Women's Facility and Valley State Prison for Women.
Trained peer educators at these sites work to raise awareness, provide education, and serve as a resource for those incarcerated on a wide variety of health issues such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, tuberculosis, substance abuse prevention, disability and child support.
Prison peer educators facilitate workshops, provide one-on-one outreach and support and coordinate prison-wide special events.
Through these activities, the peer educators reach and support thousands of men and women each year with information and referrals.
- Healthy Relationships
Healthy Relationships is a small-group intervention for men and women living with HIV/AIDS. The intervention focuses on developing communication skills, building self
confidence, creating realistic expectations and making decisions about participants' relationships.
Centerforce is implementing Healthy Relationships groups with prisoners at the California Medical Facility and Central California Women's Facility.
- No More Tears
No More Tears is an ongoing forum for prisoners and concerned community leaders formed in response to violence and crime in communities including Richmond,
Oakland and beyond. No More Tears participants dialogue and seek understanding of the obstacles, strategies, options and solutions for decreasing community violence.
The program also seeks to support the successful return of prisoners to the community as leaders in the violence prevention movement.
- Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Project (HMRFP)
The goal of HMRFP, (a.k.a. Back To Family) is to strengthen marriages and/or relationships of incarcerated fathers releasing from San Quentin State Prison (SQSP). Activities include marriage and parenting classes for fathers on the inside and for visiting mothers and/or partners on the outside (taught at The Centerforce Yellow House, located across from the visitors parking lot at SQSP). Each class addresses establishing and maintaining positive relationships and preparing fathers and mothers for the return of their loved one into the community. Mothers/partners also learn about support services available in their communities.
- Healthy Outcomes Project
The Healthy Outcomes Project (HOP) is an HIV Risk reduction counseling program that links clients to a wide range of community-based service programs,
including housing, food, employment, substance abuse treatment and medical care services for men and women returning to the community from San Quentin State Prison,
Central California Women's Facility, and Valley State Prison for Women.
- Transitional Case Management Program (TCMP)
Centerforce provides transitional case management for men and women living with HIV returning to eight Bay Area counties.
TCMP case managers work to firmly link parolees living with HIV with medical care, long-term case management, parole services and other community-based services such
as substance abuse treatment, housing, employment assistance. The goal of this transitional case management program is for ex-prisoners living with HIV in California
to live healthier lives in the community.
- Health Promotion
Health Promotion Project is a collaborative research project between Centerforce, UCSF-CAPS and UCSF-School of Nursing.
The research goal is to evaluate the effectiveness of two individual level interventions to reduce HIV risk behavior and improve access to post-release medical care
and HIV prevention services for men living with HIV leaving jail or prison settings. Findings will be used to further inform best practices to support individuals
living with HIV to successfully change risk behaviors and improve access to medical and social support services when transitioning back into the community.
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