According to a study the recidivism rate for Hawaii's parolees is 42%.
Just as there is a way to communicate that supports friends and loved ones in not going straight, so too is there a way to communicate that inspires integrity. One's leadership-communication skills, how one communicates and relates with others, has a profound positive or negative effect. If we keep communicating with each other as we have been we will keep producing more of the same.

Most rehabilitation work done by correctional facility staff is undone within the first few conversations a parolee has with family members and friends who's leadership communication skills supported the incarceration—unless, the family and friends have all simultaneously undergone rehabilitation. —Kerrith H. (Kerry) King, Communication Skills Coach
The Community Support Group Project (see Google) is a televised series of conversations in support of the intention for ten Kulani Correctional Facility parolees to never return to prison, ever. The project is about rehabilitating the community.

Phase 1 of the project is collecting votes in support of the project. Once we have enough votes we will make a formal presentation to the Superintendent of Prisons, the Warden of Kulani Correctional Facility, the Mayor, and the two local public TV studios.

Your vote (Poll) will support the project.



With aloha,

Kerry

And who is funding this little venture of yours? Tax payers? No politician is gonna go for that, sorry to say.

Hi Voice of Reason,

The funding info for the Community Support Group Project is under the Logistics tab > Expesnse.

Total estimated budget for the 6-month program$20,000 (to be solicited for and by Community Communications, the program sponsor)

I’ve been collecting names of clients and friends who would donate what they can once they have a sense that the Governor, Superintendent of Prison, and the Kulani Correctional Facility Warden will support it. It would cost less to do the first program here on the Big Isle of Hawaii because it takes some time to train the 10 volunteer Assistant- Co-facilitators. We have lots of Big Islanders who have completed one or more Relationship-Leadership Communication Skill Workshops who are waiting for a big project such as this.

I spent a semester teaching at JAIMES (Japanese American Institute for Management Science) on Oahu, and one thing that amazed me was the long-range planning skills of the Japanese. I was privy to conversations 25 years ago when they were formulating intentions that are just now manifesting themselves. They created the term internationalization, the concept of peace through economic globalization. China has since copied their model.

From that experience I began studying about intentions and how to formulate and manifest them. Part of the process involves putting out an idea and noticing my own considerations, the thoughts that come up as very real reasons as to why it will never happen. The trick is to notice them and be with them until they disappear. In the beginning my own considerations about the CSPG were as solid as concrete. So too were/are the considerations of others. Another trick is to notice the degree to which I am attached to the outcome and to let go of it but keep the intention to the forefront, on purpose with it daily.

As you can see, It’s not an idea whose time has come--yet.

Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts; they are absolutely essential to manifesting the program.
One encouraging consideration of most everyone who hears/reads about the Community Support Group Project is an immediate, almost natural knowingness, of its enormous potential; this realization followed with, expressed variously as, "Yah but "they’ll" never go for it."

With aloha,


Kerry