Reproductive, Maternal, and Newborn and Child Adolescence Healthcare units 2016. Earthspring International works with women and children in Nigeria prisons throughout the federation. But at the moment concentrates its advocacy and interventions on the North- central region of Nigeria in Benue, Nassarawa, Niger, Kogi, Plateau States and Abuja, the Federal Capital. The establishment of the mother and child units were SULEJA, LAFIA AND KEFFI Correctional Custodial Centers, to improve the health of female inmate and infants in the prison. Access to reproductive health services was completely non-existence in the prison. In these prisons the female inmates attested that they have no slightest idea about family planning (FB). In every 15 female inmates, 1 may be pregnant, either arrested while they are pregnant or pregnant as a result sexual abuse allegedly by the care givers while in custody.
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Earthspring International carries out a reentry and recovery program developed by for the youth and the prisoners, otherwise known as Take them Out and Keep them Out (T.O.K.O.)
The objective is to promote and cultivate through information, training, education for behavioral modification, skill acquisition, empowerment and reintegration of the ex-prisoners. About 1,300 prison inmates have graduated from this program and reintegrated in their communities and contributing to their families and their communities.
The activities include information technology as tools to cope with life outside prison, communication skills, counseling and offender-victim reconciliation, gang recovery strategies , cognitive processes for thought recovery to roll back criminal thought patterns and behaviors, talent developments, how to break the vicious circle of negative influences and emotions, Domestic Violence prevention Strategies (DVP), psychosocial therapy.
They are also exposed to basic skills on how to write resume for job application , career choices, how to apply for a job, entrepreneurship, leadership and management skills, culinary art, job training and job interview, courtesy and etiquettes principle, basic legal knowledge, survival strategies (health, housing, job, accidents etc.), anger management, treatment for substance abuse disorders and other aftercare services available and where they could be located.
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