The Community Support Group Project

Reality TV at its best—a proposed series of conversations between ten prison inmates, thousands of Hawaii Island viewers, ten assistant co-facilitators, and a support group facilitator.

During each of the 24 weekly 3-hr broadcasts viewers will call in with feedback in support of each inmate being granted and successfully completing their parole.

The objective: To create a context of community support so that none of the ten parolees return to prison, ever—zero recidivism.

If the family, friends, and community members of a parolee, have not concurrently participated in their own rehabilitation program the parolee has no choice but to continue using their old communication model, the very way of communicating and relating that supported the parolee's incarceration. —Kerry

Our combined relationship-leadership-communication-support skills, how we have been communicating and relating with each other, produces 42% recidivism.

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