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I used to think that making mistakes was all I could do right. Every time I tried to get ahead I ended up three steps behind. It wasn’t that I was a bad person or didn’t know right from wrong. I just didn’t think that anyone cared. I was beginning to think that I deserved all the bad things that happened to me and that I would never turn my life around. Today my life is different. I found people who cared about me and gave me another chance at life. Now I realize that I have a choice in my life. And I made a choice to be a better person for me and my children. Day after day I choose to be a better person and make better choices.
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Craig Tame US Attorney’s Office-Attorney
2014 PHOENIX AWARDS DINNER On October 10, 2014
Attendees were
the Jordan Community
witness to an
Resource Center
spectacular array of
hosted its 10th
modern dance and
Anniversary
ballet performed by the
Celebration and
incredible Mr. Terrance
Phoenix Awards Dinner
Green and The Green
at the Embassy Suites
Works Project to a
Hotel in Independence
standing ovation.
Ohio. Poetry and spoken The evening opened
word was also
with a prayer and the
performed by
blessings of Bishop
Katrice Head and the
Tony Minor who
evening was filled with
attended with his wife
the melodic sounds of
Natoya Walker, City
the Unit Band.
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LISA L. BOTTOMS / 2014 PHOENIX AWARD RECIPIENT It was one of the most entertaining and auspicious nights of the year. Barbara McEachern, PhD., Professor Emeritus also spoke eloquently to an attentive audience. Founder Tenisha
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Gant-Watson introduced this year’s 2014 Phoenix Award Recipient Lisa L. Bottoms of the Cleveland Foundation. The audience was also privy to a powerful and moving speech by special guest speaker Dr. Pamela Redden.
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My family has always been a priority to me. So when my first husband passed away, it really shook us to our core. I was determined that this wouldn’t define the future for me or my children. We had to heal and the first step was to redefine our roles within our family unit and divide Daddy’s chores among us. My 6 year old son volun-
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teered to feed and walk the dog up our street and to clean up after the dog. He even agreed to help with laundry by rolling socks. My 9 year old daughter would load and unload the dishwasher and wash and dry pre-sorted laundry, compliments of me. We became a strong family unit working to rebuild our lives. The children
maintained their grades in schools and continued all of their extracurriculars. Five years later, I married my current husband and became a blended family. Again, I put on my social worker’s hat and was determined to build my new family. My husband brought two additional children to our union making us the Brady Bunch with children ages, 14, two eleven year olds (not twins), and an 8 year old. We began by setting expectations with the children with
final expectation for both my husband and I to remember it was always us as a couple with one position present to the children. We created new memories and traditions building a stronger family along the way. Today, three of our children are in collegetwo are sophomores in undergraduate, one is finishing graduate school-and one is a junior in high school. Our family will continue to support and love one another and to help each other rise and meet their goals.
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tragic consequences More than 1 million adult women are
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involved in or under the custody and control of the criminal justice system. As of 2012, the number of women in local jails was 90,100 (Minton, 2013). Over the past 30 years, research in the fields of health, mental health, substance abuse, and violence against women has revealed that women offenders face challenges that are not only different from their male counterparts, but that also greatly influence their involvement in criminal justice, including jails.
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Relational theory is one
also important to con-
of the developments
sider how women’s life
that has come from an
experiences may affect
increased understand-
how they will function
ing of gender differ-
both within the crimi-
ences, and specifically
nal justice system and
of the different ways
during the process of
in which women and
their transition and suc-
men develop psycho-
cessful re-entry into the
logically. We need to
community.
understand relational theory in order to de-
According to these
velop effective services
theories, an individual’s
and to avoid re-creating
goal is to become a
in correctional set-
self-sufficient, clearly
tings the same kinds of
differentiated, autono-
growth-hindering and/or
mous self.
violating relationships that women experience
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The culmination of the evening was resulted in the presentation of the Phoenix Award by legendary former Cleveland Brown’s wide receiver and CEO of the Cleveland Peacemakers Alliance, Reggie Rucker who attended with his beautiful wife Darlene Rucker as they also celebrated their 8th wedding anniversary. Director and founder of the Jordan Community Resource Center Tenisha Gant-Watson also co-presented along
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with Mr. Rucker.
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nter),The Cleveland Foundation-Director of Gift Planning
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2014 PHOENIX AWARDS DINNER
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Mutual, empathic, and empowering relationships produce five psychological outcomes.
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the psychological problems of women can be traced to
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disconnections or v io la t io n s wit hi n r e lationships, whether in families, with p e rs o n a l a c q u a i n tances, or in society a t la rg e .
1981 FOR THE ... pur pos e o f e xaminin g th e qua lit ie s o f r el ati ons hip s that fo ste r g rowth a n d d e v e l opment. The stone center relat i o n a l m o d e l defi nes connectio n as “a n in ter a c t io n t h a t engenders a se n se o f b e ing in t u n e wit h sel f and oth e rs and o f b e ing u n d e rs t o o d and valued” (bylington 1997, 3 5 ) . S u c h
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relationships-- which she terms a “depressive spiral.� These are: (1) diminished zest or vitalMutual, empathic, and
1986). These outcomes
ity, (2) disempowerment,
empowering relation-
constitute psychologi-
(3) unclarity or confu-
ships produce five
cal growth for women.
sion, (4) diminished self-
psychological out-
Mutuality, empathy,
worth, and (5) a turning
comes. Participants
and power with others
away from relationships.
in these relationships
are essential qualities
gain: (1) increased zest
of an environment that
and vitality, (2) em-
will foster growth in
powerment to act, (3)
women. By contrast,
knowledge of self and
Miller (1990) has de-
others, (4) self-worth,
scribed the outcomes of
and (5) a desire for
disconnections -- that is,
more connection (Miller
non-mutual or abusive
The importance of understanding relational theory is reflected in the recurring themes of relationship and family seen in the lives of female offenders.
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