Causes: Arts & Culture, Child Abuse Prevention, Children & Youth, Crime & Law, Domestic Violence, Inmate Support, Youth Violence Prevention

Mission: The lionheart foundation, inc. Is dedicated to improving the lives of incarcerated adults and highly at-risk youth by creating and providing exceptional resources and training in social emotional literacy development. To provide curricula/resources to be used directly by youth and adults to develop social emotional literacy. To provide direct social emotional literacy education programs for incarcerated adults and at-risk youth in prisons, juvenile institutions and community programs in a prevention and rehabilitation capacity. To conduct public education on the need for transforming our nation's prisons and juvenile institutions into places where nurturing social emotional rehabilitation, inspiring positive values and imparting behavior patterns necessary for healthy functioning in our communities are primary goals. To conduct research on the efficacy of these services.

Programs: 4a)courses and lectures presented at various prisons, juvenile institutions and educational forums to train facilitators in the use of lionheart curricula. Development of materials for courses including prison-based course for younger prisoners and youth school-based curriculum. Development of eq2 - an emotional literacy resource to support front line professionals in prisons and youth facilities. Photocopying lecture highlights and other supporting materials and office support.

4b) continued publication of lionheart materials including "houses of healing- and "power source" books manuals and workbook for prisoners and highly at-risk youth. Publication of new resources for at-risk youth, "power source posters". Publication of "power source parenting" books for at-risk teen parents. Nationwide distribution of "houses of healing", "power source- and "power source parenting" materials as part of the national emotional literacy project for prisoners and the national emotional literacy project for youth at-risk sponsored by the lionheart foundation.

4c) outreach and public relations for lionheart's youth, parenting and prisoner initiatives. Outreach to volunteers for volunteer training and prisoner correspondence course. Research data analysis of the "power source" program and "power source parenting" program with the new york university school of nursing (nyu), massachusetts institute of technology (mit) and pennsylvania state university (psu).

lectures and workshops presented to the public. Development and distribution of newsletters and brochures. Photocopying and purchasing supporting materials for handouts.