Measure Your Success in Moments

By:   Sam Burgett
Imprint:   Joshua Tree Publishing
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 9mm
Weight:   227g
ISBN:   9781956823400
ISBN 10:   1956823409
Pages:   148
Publication Date:   09 September 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

In 2017, Samantha Burgett was running a teen program in Northwest Indiana, when she noticed several of her youth demonstrating new negative behaviors after having been incarcerated in the local juvenile detention center for a short period of time. Feeling called to address the issues she was observing, Sam, along with one of her professors and a close friend, launched a mentoring program in the detention center. After running the program in the facility for a few short months, Sam began working at the agency as a detention officer and quickly noticed many gaps in the American justice system. After studying reentry programs around the world, Sam launched an intensive reentry program within the facility, working with the older youth and young adults while they were detained and, for those who were interested, as they returned back to the community. Shortly after, the opportunity arose to launch a similar group in the local prison, providing reentry programming to incarcerated adults in the community. In order to funnel more resources into the programs and to be able to offer more services to program participants, Sam founded a nonprofit, the Community Change Center, in 2019. Today, the Center operates reentry programming in local correctional facilities and provides community-based reintegration services to individuals as they are released from incarceration, including transitional living, adult education, mentoring, case management, expungement fairs, and a Unity Cafe.For more information about the organization, visit: CommunityChangeCenter.org