| Freedom Ministries |
| Box 234, Iola KS 66749 tombevard@yahoo.com (620) 365-3233 |
Mentor Training
Dr. Karen Swanson is the Director of the Institute for Prison Ministries (IPM) at the Billy Graham Center, Wheaton College. As Director, she oversees the Charles W. Colson Scholarship program at Wheaton College, serves on the Christian Association for Prisoner Aftercare Advisory Board, and pursues the goals of IPM through collaborations, networks and strategic partnerships that provide leadership and training to those engaged in correctional ministries for the advancement of the Gospel.
She began her correctional ministry by teaching in the Life Learning Program at Cook County Jail, Chicago, IL. She also served three years as the Executive Director of LifeHouse Ministries, a Christ-centered reentry program. She continues to serve in jails and prisons and on a reentry board of directors.
Karen serves as faculty in the Christian Formation and Ministry Department at Wheaton College and teaches courses in correctional ministry. She earned her doctorate from Northern Illinois University in Education with an emphasis in Curriculum Leadership.
Sat: March 10th Topeka: 1st. Southern Baptist time 1-4 p.m. 1912 S.W. Gage Blvd
Sun: March 11th Wichita:Airport Hilton
meeting room 6-9 p.m. 2098 S. Airport Road
Mon: March 12th. Independence,Ks: 1st. Assembly time 6-9 p.m. 2414 North 8th.
Tues: March 13th Kansas City,Ks: Nall Avenue Baptist 6-9 p.m. 6701 Nall Ave. Prairie Village, Ks
Cost: $20(individual) or $30(couple). Those who take the training will receive a notebook.
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In connection with Freedom Ministries of Kansas, Swanson will start in Topeka and travel throughout the state. Her training sessions will help mentors understand criminal thinking errors, develop interviewing skills, and work effectively with ex-offenders from backgrounds of poverty.
Providing mentor training is a great privilege as we partner with the faith-based community and the Kansas Department of Corrections in this opportunity to increase public safety,” Swanson says. “Research says prisoners reentering society are successful if they have a social support network. Mentors can provide that.”
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Transition Coach Training is a 3-hour mentor training seminar.
Topics covered include:
- Foundations of Transition Coaching
- Coaching Do’s and Don’ts
- Understanding the Person Being Coached
- Phases of Coaching
- Reentry Issues
- Transitioning Out of Poverty
- Differences between those from generational poverty and those from the middle-class
- Hidden rules of poverty and middle-class
- Language and voice
- Making the transition out of poverty
- Motivational Interviewing (An evidence-based practice)
- Understanding the change process
- General principles of motivational interviewing
- Basic skills of motivational interviewing
- Coaching Tools include: Transition Coach Participation Agreement, Confidentiality Policy, Reentry Plan
Instructor: Dr. Karen Swanson is the Director of the Institute for Prison Ministries at the Billy Graham Center, Wheaton College. She has over 25 years of teaching experience. She has taught in jails, prisons and worked in reentry. Her doctoral degree is in Education with an emphasis in curriculum leadership.