Sub Forum - Success Stories - Coming Home

Share your SUCCESS STORIES here – please! We all spend a lot of time at PTO while our loved ones are locked up. PTO is a safe and understanding home for many of us while trying to deal with the incarceration of our loved ones. Please consider coming back to visit us after your loved one comes home. Please encourage him or her to join PTO and share with us his or her success after being released from prison. We NEED to hear these stories.

I Totally Agree With Tebkrg!! We Do Need To Hear About The Success Stories, The Ones who made it once they were released. By The Way, I was Incarcerated and I am a Success Story! And Hopefully one day soon my Stormy will be also! Hopefully we will have a lot of responses on this one, Thak you for starting this!!

We do NEED to hear. It will help many if you guys share what you went thur in the transition and what helped and what didn't etc....

Deb

So glad this Forum is here!

[quote=Ken;211638]Sub Forum - Success Stories - Coming Home
I guess I have a success story. I went in at 18 and was released at 27 years old. I was fortunate to have a good support group waiting for me. I am an Executive chef and received my Doctorates in Theology. I am retired and baught a home in S.e. mo. at the lake. Thank God its paid for. I am a single father(my wife passed away with Brain Cancer in 2001). I have done many things since being released. And have worked many jobs to take care of my family. I worked with hedge inc. in St. Louis and we took many parolees in and helped them get jobs and get settled in. There are those that made it and some that returned to prison. I was involved with Teen Challenge in Cape and recomend it to any parent. (You do not have to be a teen to go there). But for some one that has a drug problem and wants help, or if they rae going to court and will possibly be sentenced, it is a wonderful alternative.