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accommodations: An essential post employment service. Journal of Applied
Rehabilitation Counseling, 26(4), 3-7.)
Self-healing is vital to the pathway to rehabilitation. Individual healing
will allow people to be amenable to the concepts of the other components.
Community Healing, Victim Empathy and Jobs/Education Prep. Self Healing
provides for correcting offending behavior, identifying and respecting
culture, developing self esteem and self respect that will hopefully
translate to other offenders, and to the community when discharged.
Programs in this category include: Ending Offending, Murri Chaplaincy,
Indigenous Sex Offender Treatment Program, Traditional Dancing and Art,
Cultural Story Telling, Effective and Positive Parenting, Literacy
A crucial element of this feature requires a wide and significant
consultation with the community. Programs such as Elders Visits,
Videoconferencing, Pre Release programs, traditional art and dancing and
cultural story telling, would develop the prisoners sense of ownership and
relationship with the community, after extended periods away from their
community. Recognition of external programs developed for social and
economic community development should be targeted for prisoner program
development. Prisoners would be provided with preparation courses to
encourage their participation into community based initiatives that will
allow them an opportunity to give something back to the community, when
discharged. Correctional Facilities are limited in terms of resources to
actively consult communities on a large scale. Brokering and maintaining a
partnership and link with relevant community and government agencies
responsible for social and community development, will provide the platform
for the extension of the c...