The Amity Foundation mission is “dedicated to the inclusion and habilitation of people marginalized by addiction, trauma, criminality, incarceration, poverty, racism, sexism and violence. Amity is committed to research, development and implementation and dissemination of information regarding community building”. Rod Mullen’s job and role is to implement Amity’s mission. Program developer, research report reviewer, fundraiser, [...]

Robin Rettmer is a busy woman. And this is an understatement. Vice President of Operations for the Amity Foundation, she oversees every program contained within three states (Arizona, California and New Mexico), including three residential treatment programs, three in-prison programs and two outreach programs for women. Additionally, Amity Foundation is now raising money to build [...]

by Naya Arbiter & Fernando Mendez This curriculum is presented in the South Lodge. It should be presented once the TC Participant has become better acquainted with the TC. Each page bordered in black is for the demonstrator to create their lesson plans from. The white pages are the corresponding pages from the student workbook. [...]

by Naya Arbiter and Fernando Mendez This is the first in a series of three curricula which focus on the foundational or basic assumptions of a Therapeutic Community. In essence, the TC is an intentional community formed with for the purpose of helping individuals dramatically transform the negative anti-social behaviors they exhibit towards society and [...]

Follows last week’s announcement to Reduce Rehabilitation Budget The CDCR sent State Restriction of Appointments (SROA) letters on Sept. 23 to employees affected by a $250 million budget reduction in adult offender rehabilitation and other programs for inmates and parolees that were announced last week. This is the first step in the layoff process due [...]