One In Four Podcast

Please listen, subscribe, and rate/review our Podcast in iTunes (if you open it up on Apple Podcasts, go to the Itunes page to leave us a review), Spotify, and on Google Play.Send tips, comments and questions to: podcastoneinfour@gmail.comFollow us on Twitter: @oneinfourpodca1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oneinfourpodcast/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oneinfourpodcastHosts: Bea M. Spadacini and Tim Nicholson

In this episode, we will bring you a conversation with Tony Vinson, Recruitment and Intake Coordinator for D.C. Central Kitchen, a local non-profit organization whose mission is to use food to as a tool to strengthen bodies, empower minds and build communities.This year, D.C. Central Kitchen celebrates 30 years of developing and managing community-led social ventures that seek to break the cycle of hunger and poverty. From preventing food waste to expanding access to healthy options in food deserts across the country, and training jobless adults for culinary careers, D.C. Central Kitchen has become a beacon of hope and a model for scaling up similar initiatives to empower individuals with practical skills and a positive mindset.Its Culinary Job Training Program lasts 14 weeks and specifically targets unemployed, homeless, and formerly incarcerated men and women. Tony Vinson is the Recruitment and Intake Coordinator for the Culinary Job Training Program. As a graduate of the program and a formerly incarcerated

Free Minds offers a weekly book club inside the DC jail and keeps in touch with inmates in federal prisons across the country through books, birthday cards, and The Connect newsletter. Incarcerated members are encouraged to write poetry which is later shared in the community and published in the newsletter. Once they come home from prison, Free Minds offers its members a safe place to connect and to prepare for life after prison.You can support Free Minds Book Club through Amazon Smile or by getting involved in a variety of ways.Please listen, subscribe, and rate/review our Podcast in iTunes (if you open it up on Apple Podcasts, go to the Itunes page to leave us a review), Spotify, and on Google Play.Send tips, comments and questions to: podcastoneinfour@gmail.comFollow us on Twitter: @oneinfourpodca1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oneinfourpodcast/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oneinfourpodcastHosts: Bea M. Spadacini and Tim Nicholson

In this episode we stay focused on the topic of employment but look at the specific challenges that women face when they come out of prison or jail, which can make landing a job even harder. Over the last 25 years, the number of incarcerated women has increased by more than 700%. Though many more men are in prison than women, the rate of growth for female imprisonment has been twice as high as that of men since 1980. This is primarily the result of stiffer drug sentencing laws and post-conviction barriers to reentry that uniquely affect women.According to the Sentencing Project, more than 60% of women in state prisons have a child under the age of 18. There is also a large number of women, who are mothers, that are locked up in local jails awaiting trial. One of the primary concerns incarcerated mothers have when they complete their sentence is how to reestablish a healthy relationship with their children. In this episode, we will introduce you to Together We Bake (TWB), a small non-profit organization in Ale

Finding employment and getting hired is one of the many barriers that formerly incarcerated individuals face when they return to their communities. This is why offering training programs inside jails or prisons is fundamental to preparing inmates for coming home and being productive citizens. According to a July 2018 report by the Prison Policy Initiative entitled Out of Prison, Out of Work, formerly incarcerated people are unemployed at a rate of over 27% - approximately five times higher than the national average. In this episode, you will meet Coach Rojas who is a trainer at the American Jobs Center in the Montgomery County Correctional facility in Boyds, Maryland. She works in the pre-release center inside the jail and trains inmates on life and job-readiness skills. You will also meet Lynda who went through this program a few years ago and is slowly getting back on her feet, pursuing her dreams, working and giving back to her community.Please listen, subscribe, and rate/review our Podcast in iTunes (if y

This trailer is an introduction to the One in Four Podcast, a conversation series of 10 episodes on the reentry process of the formerly incarcerated in the Washington D.C. metro area, which includes the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. One in Four stands for, "one in four adult Americans has a criminal record," which means that the chances of knowing someone who has spent time in prison or jail are pretty high. The goal of this podcast is to HUMANIZE; EDUCATE; and ELEVATE the conversations about reentry of the formerly incarcerated. We want to provide an intimate platform that gives voice to the formerly incarcerated, to representative of service organizations that support and facilitate the reentry process, and to public officials who are vested in a successful transition from prison to everyday life. Our target audience are ordinary people who care about this issue but may not know enough about what it is like to come home after spending time behind bars. Everyone who cares about the issue of ma