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Up one level- Sycamore Tree Project® in the Community
- Recently, the PF Australia chapter in New South Wales completed its first Sycamore Tree Project® pilot project in the community. This pilot worked with both ex-prisoners and offenders on community sentences. The offender participants volunteer for the programme because they are required to complete a certain number of prescribed courses as a term of their sentences. Sycamore Tree is only one in a range of courses.
- “Today I got to Speak”
- Trembling from fear as they neared the massive prison, Fiona and Helen both felt the urge to just keep driving and avoid meeting the offenders who waited for them behind the gates. They were on their way to take part in PF Australia’s Sycamore Tree Project® (STP) at Acacia Prison near Perth in Western Australia.
- Prisoners Donate to Fund for Victims
- Furthering the reconciliation work that is initiated by the Sycamore Tree Project® (STP), Prison Fellowship Western Australia has set up a Victim Relief Fund that encourages prisoners to donate to crime victims.
- Lives in Transition: Proof of a Life Transformed
- Lives in Transition is a 16-week intensive pre- and post-release programme operated by PF Australia (Victoria). In this article, Robert, a programme graduate, describes how the programme caused him to see the reality of his offending and to seek a meeting to apologise to his victim.
- Observations of a Visitor—Sycamore Tree Project®
- Prepared by Lynne Ridgeway of the Victim-Offender Mediation Unit who attended the final session of the Pilot Programme at Acacia Prison 2005.
- Celebration of Healing: Report from the Sycamore Tree Project® – Pilot at Acacia Prison
- 28 people, both men and women, sit in a circle facing inwards. It is morning. Among them, dotted about in random fashion, are 9 men in green, the clothes marking them out as prisoners. We are in a large classroom, a cross and some stained glass windows identifying this as a chapel. The location - Acacia private prison - a loose block of buildings, 50 kilometres East of Perth, heavily fortified by razor wire indicating its maximum security classification. Around us are the living and working quarters of about 750 inmates (this is the largest of WA’s prisons) and a large number of security personnel. It is Friday 11th November 2005. There are smiles and an atmosphere of peace, confidence - even of joy - among those present.
- Lives in Transition From custody to community: An initiative of Prison Fellowship Australia - Victoria
- Lives in Transition (LIT) is a new innovative approach to the problem of recidivism in Victoria. It takes a holistic approach to the issues facing prisoners in the transition from custody to community thereby recognising the need to fully address the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the inmate. Lives in Transition grew out of faith based programs developed by national Prison Fellowship ministries around the world. Primarily it is based on the InnerChange program initiated by Prison Fellowship in the USA and the Transition of Prisoners program based in Detroit.
- APAC in QUEENSLAND : A work in progress
- A report to the Prison Fellowship Australia National Conference, October 2001. by Martin Howard, Chairman, QLD APAC Committee
- APAC Transition
- Handout prepared by PF Queensland to inform people in their state about APAC.