Program areas at Heartbound Ministries
Prison outreach program supports and partners with prison chaplains to provide spiritual guidance, substance abuse counseling, cognitive classes, literary services, life skills training, parenting training and other rehabilitative programs for inmates. We serve approximately 55,000 adult and juvenile offenders in Georgia's adult and juvenile correctional facilities.
Christmas care bag & indigent hygiene program - sometimes the best way to reach inmates' hearts is through meeting their physical needs. Heartbound donates hygiene items for indigent inmates via the chaplaincy program and organizes care bags containing hygiene, snacks and christian literature for distribution at christmas.
Project art (art to rehabilitate and teach): uses art lessons to teach character and build positive relationships between incarcerated youth and instructors who provide mentoring and spiritual guidance. As youth learn the benefits of character qualities such as patience, integrity, compassion and self-control, they gain the desire to stay out of prison and live a crime-free life when they return to the community.
Malachi dads/returning hearts: a weekly parenting training program for incarcerated fathers at walker state prison. Malachi dads culminates in an annual returning hearts celebration, which reunites incarcerated dads and their children on the prison grounds for a day of games, activities and a biblical message.
Little readers: a personalized, recorded reading program allowing children of incarcerated parents to see and hear their mothers and fathers reading a book to them on dvd.
Seminary program: Heartbound established and funds the first and only women's prison seminary in Georgia. The nathan and sandra deal extension of nobt seminary is housed at whitworth facility in hartwell, ga.
The 100 shares children's visitation center: located at metro women's transitional center, the 100 shares center provides children and their mothers the opportunity to visit in a child-friendly setting and enjoy a respite from the pain and loss they have experienced as a result of their separation.
Art from the inside.
Counseling center: provides free, professional trauma counseling services for women at metro transitional center.
Pups in prison