A MUST READ! How Blue Ribbons transform women inmates in Lancaster

Ten women sit in a circle in an overheated, dimly lit room in Lancaster County Prison, they are here to learn a lesson that all of us — the embattled and the comfortable — need to learn.

Mary Steffy, a mental health advocate, delivers it.

You are important.

You mean something.

Love yourself.

Have a dream.

“Steffy tells the women that they were born with an innate value, something that can never be diminished by anyone else. Make that your core, she urges. Value yourself enough to act in your own best interest.  When you start to believe you are worth something, it opens up the world, Steffy says. It gives you the power to control your future.”

Read more: http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/585164_Program-teaches-inmates-one-of-hardest-lessons.html#ixzz1mTskHgKd

15 February 2012 ·

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