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The U.S.Jaycees.

A Leadership Training Organization

INSITfUTIONAL CHAPTERS

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Why Get Involved

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One of the most common requests Jaycees in prisons make is to have better, more frequent assistance to local chapters. The number of offenders who return fromjail after being released is extremely high. Once prisoner is released, that support. Local achapters can providehe needs more support than ever. Prisonlikely to remain have a positive Jayceeare released.are more members who in Jaycees after they experience You can help save tax dollars. It is expensIve to keep people dollar. in prison and nearly every prison receives part of your tax

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6. 7. Prison Jayceesof restrictions on travel. local chapters do not visit because often become isolated if That isolation often creates problems. Rehabilitation is difficult in most prisons. Support from the free world often gives hope to incarcerated Jaycees; that hope can promote rehabilitation.

Facts About The Program

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How To Get Involved

If you would like more information about how you can help imprisoned Jaycees, fill out the order coupon attached and send it to The U.S. Jaycees, P.O. Box 7, Tulsa, OK 74121, or call 918-584-2481, extenSIon 161. If you do not need additional information and simply wish office, Regional chapter, call your State the prison Manager, state to visit a prison or District Director, or Program you wish to visit. They can tell you what to do in order to VIsit.Many states still require advance notice and have restrictions on the number of members allowed for each visit, so make sure you are expected by the prison personnel. Many times just a visit to a prison chapter is all it takes to get involved. The hospitality that is shown to visitors is nearly always outstanding; so good that you may set a date for the next visit needs. They can Prison you with many excellent ideas on their before you leave. provide members are also very open about how to help them.

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Jaycees has an ongoing commitment to

Jaycee chapters which are located in prisons across the nation. This commitment began over sixteen years ago when the first prison Jaycee chapter was chartered in West Virginia. If success is measured in numbers, then the concept is a winner by any standard. There are over 500 Prison Jaycee Chapters which have a total membership in excess of 24,000. and today Over the Jaycees a unique opporturuty. The program offers all years the program has expanded, matured has been referred to as the Criminal JustIce program at tImes and still is in many states. The U.S. Jaycee program IScurrently called Institutional Chapters. The objective of The U.S. Jaycees is to provide service and assistance to prison Jaycees (including specialized manuals). Of course, the ultimate mission is to Jaycees after their release preventingkeep mmates involved in further conflicts with authorities.

Resources Available
Nearly every state organization has a State Program Manager assigned to prison chapters. The Community Development Vice-President of each state is most often the state officer who is assigned prison chapters. Your State Office usually has the most current mformation available concerning has aprison Jaycees of your assigned The U.S. Jaycees the full-time Staff Officer state. to service prison chapters, their members and free world chapters who wish to get involved. He is also in charge of developing and maintaining new andwish to contact any of the resources listed You may existing program materials. above for assistance in starting a new chapter or visiting an existing chapter. Additionally, The U.S. Jaycees offers a number of manuals designed specifically for use in the area of Institutional Cl?-apters.They are listed below with their RSVP numbers and pnces.

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Halfway Houses for Parolees Job Awareness Seminar Volunteer Guide Criminal Justice Print Media Kit Employment of the Ex-Offender Individual Development Within Prisons ity Programs for Chapters and CommunPrison Chapter Extension Kit

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Prison Chapters, What They Are and What They Do.

Our Jaycee members who are in prison are people. The simplicity of that statement is difficult to accept but qUIte true. Many free world Jaycees have already learned how true It is, often to their amazement. Meetings are called to order, agendas approved, and parliamentary procedure followed. Offices and debate, of course, given, new projects accepted or rejected, after project reports are and the meeting is adjourned with the creed. The description of a prison chapter program is unique, and probably successful for Our is the same as a free world chapter. one reason-Jaycees in prison are members of Total Jaycee Concept chapters. Theytoare not the needs to runningIndIvidual program. The ability meet restricted of each a .partial member is available to prison and free world chapters in the same basic format. Prison chapters fInd great inspiration in the fact that, through Jaycees, they are real people, free to grow and learn, share and care. Equal treatment like prison, that is important. In a dehumanizingIS atmospherethe main reason our probably Jaycee prison chapters have flOUrIshedsince inception while other programs have come and gone. Freedom to grow may seem natural to you now. One visit to a prison chapter will probabl,Y,give you an entirely new appreciation for the word "freedom. '

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New members usually fInd that visits to prisons are fun and exciting. Visits quite often drastically change preconceived images people have about prisons. More experienced Jaycees quite often enjoy and appreciate chapters. Inmates are usually eager students training prison any assistance given. PrIson chapters often provide free chapters with highly beneficial competition in to Sunday from membership recruitment and retention anything afternoon softball

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games .. Thousands of prospective Jaycees get out of prison every year.