Monday, April 5, 2010

12:00 pm – 5:00 pm . . . Registration and Marketplace Exhibition Set-up

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

7:30 am - 5:00 pm . . . Registration and Marketplace Exhibition Open

7:45 am . . . Continental Breakfast

8:15 am - 8:30 am . . . Welcome

8:30 am - 10:30 am . . . O4L Town Hall Forum:  Community Responsibility—Challenges Facing Returning Citizens

• Facilitator:  David Lawson, Prison Fellowship
• Participants:

• Pastor Jim Liske, Ridge Point Community Church, Holland, MI
• Paula Sadler, Deputy Director, Governor’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
• Sheila Brown-Burrell, Director of Development and Women, Life Challenge
• Anthony McCloud, Reentry Manager, Correctional Facility Administration
• Chaplain Michael Martin, Special Activities Coordinator, Department of Corrections
• Robb Burroughs, Associate Director, Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency

10:30 am – 11:30 am . . . Exhibitors/Networking

11:30 am – 12::30 . . . Lunch

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm . . . Opening Plenary Lunch and Keynote

• Speaker: Patricia Caruso, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections: "MI Corrections; Trends in Corrections, Reentry and Community Supervision"

1:30 pm – 2:15 pm . . . Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative–Community Coordinator Interview

• Denise Harris, Prison Fellowship, Field Director, Michigan interview of Tamela Aikens, Community Coordinator, Wayne County
• Kirt Baab, Community Coordinator, Northwest Michigan, Council of State Governments

2:15 pm – 3:00 pm . . . Networking and Marketplace Exhibitors

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm . . . Concurrent Workshops

• Treatment and Addictions (Sheila Burrell and Brian Burrell, Life Challenge)

• Empowering Ex-Offender Women (Dr. LaClaire Bouknight & Danielle Ralston, Eaglevision Ministries, Inc.)

• Restoring Sex Offenders to the Community (Bob VanDommelen, Broken Yoke Ministries)

• Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative (Office of Offender Reentry, Michigan Department of Corrections)

• “Eating the Elephant” Building Reentry Collaborative (Brian Vork and Doug Cupery, 70x7 Life Recovery)

• Evidenced Based Practices & Emerging Trends Related to Faith-based Programming (Phillip Dautrich, Prison Fellowship National Resource Center (NRC))

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm . . . Networking and Marketplace Exhibitors

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm . . . Dine around at local restaurants (dinner on your own)

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

7:30 am – 12:00 pm . . . Conference Check-in and Registration

7:45 am . . . Continental Breakfast

8:30 am – 9:30 am . . . Plenary Breakfast and Keynote

• Keynote Speaker:  Mark Earley, President & CEO, Prison Fellowship: "The Impact of the Faith Community on Prisoner Reentry"

9:30 am – 10:00 am . . . Break

10:00 am – 11:30 am . . . Concurrent Workshops

• Asking the People Who Know: Returning Citizens Respond to Reentry (Panel Discussion) (Bob Heriford and Jeana–Dee Allen)

• Physical and Mental Health Needs of the Returning Citizen: “Out of . . . What? Into . . . What?) (Barry Saltman, M.D., Founder and Executive Director, Care Free Medical & Dental)

• Restoring Sex Offenders to the Community (Bob VanDommelen, Broken Yoke Ministries)

• Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative (Office of Offender Reentry, Michigan Department of Corrections)

• Reentry Law 101: Tips for Helping People with Criminal Records Address Legal Barriers to Reentry (Miriam Aukerman, Legal Aid of Western Michigan)

• Building Effective Reentry Coalitions (David Lawson Sr. Vice President, Prison Fellowship and Jean Bush, National Director Out4Life, Prison Fellowship)

11:30 am – 2:00 pm . . . Lunch / Plenary Lunch and Keynote

• Keynote Speaker: Carmelita Pope-Freeman, Pastor, CME Church, Louisiana District

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm . . . Break

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm . . . Concurrent Workshops

• Mentoring Offenders and Families (Rod Williams, Prison Fellowship)

• What’s in it for You? The Benefits of Working with the Governor’s Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (Paula Sadler, Governor's Office Of
  Faith-Based & Neighborhood Initiatives)

• Life Skills Training, In-Prison (Steve Johnson, Salvation Army)

• Reentry and Juvenile Offenders – Making it Happen (Rev. Deedee Coleman, Wings Ministry)

• Supporting and Reconciling the Family (Bonnie Hilberer, Hope 4 Healing Hearts)

• Creating Healing Communities: How to become a “Station of Hope” (Valerie Hart, Healing Communities in Michigan)

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm . . . Break

4:15 pm – 5:15 pm . . . Presentation:  “Preparing the Community to Receive the Released Offender” (Joe Williams, Founder & CEO, New Creations Community Outreach)

5:15 pm – 5:45 pm . . . Networking and Marketplace Exhibitors