[ti:Women Inmates Train to Start Businesses After Prison]
[ar:Christopher Cruise]
[al:Education Report]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is the VOA Special English
[00:02.66]Education Report.
[00:04.60]Getting a job can be especially
[00:06.89]difficult for someone
[00:08.52]with a prison record.
[00:10.16]So a prison training program
[00:12.65]in the American Northwest
[00:14.30]prepares women
[00:16.29]to start their own businesses.
[00:18.49](SOUND)
[00:25.34]The program is called
[00:26.33]Lifelong Information
[00:28.09]for Entrepreneurs, or LIFE.
[00:31.59]The training combines business
[00:33.75]and social skills.
[00:35.97]The women learn how to manage
[00:38.11]their time, set goals
[00:40.20]and settle conflicts peacefully.
[00:43.68]Saresa Whitley is serving
[00:46.79]five years for assault
[00:49.14]at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility,
[00:51.93]a women's prison in Oregon.
[00:54.33]She has a job waiting for her
[00:57.27]when she is released in January.
[00:59.63]But she also plans to start
[01:02.31]a small business with the knowledge
[01:04.67]gained from the months of class.
[01:06.93]SARESA WHITLEY: "When I was talking
[01:08.57]about knowing if my business
[01:10.57]is viable or not,
[01:11.42]through a profit-and-loss model,
[01:12.96]I was like ¡®Wow, I didn't even know
[01:14.85]the word viable before, and now I do.'
[01:17.34]I've learned a lot,
[01:18.59]I've learned a lot about how
[01:19.70]to write a business plan,
[01:21.04]about effective communications skills,
[01:23.14]how to listen, something
[01:25.09]I didn't know how to do before."
[01:26.74]Cynthia Thompson is serving time
[01:29.18]for stealing someone's identity.
[01:31.07]She says the lessons learned
[01:33.72]in the program are important
[01:35.25]not just for the inmates, but also
[01:38.13]the communities they will re-enter.
[01:40.19]CYNTHIA THOMPSON: "I think the goal of it
[01:41.60]is to produce people that
[01:43.19]are being part of the community,
[01:44.38]paying their taxes and being volunteers.
[01:47.60]Not just necessarily successful
[01:49.91]small businesses, but just successful,
[01:52.00]accountable people in the community."
[01:54.93]MercyCorps Northwest started
[01:57.27]the training program four years ago.
[01:59.86]MercyCorps is an international
[02:02.82]development organization.
[02:04.66]Doug Cooper is assistant director
[02:07.55]of MercyCorps Northwest.
[02:09.93]DOUG COOPER: "We were looking for ways
[02:11.23]that we could apply our expertise
[02:12.84]around economic development
[02:14.18]and small business management
[02:15.63]to populations that could use it.
[02:17.47]It's identical to
[02:19.26]what we do internationally,
[02:21.00]except we apply it here
[02:22.25]in Oregon and Washington."
[02:23.30]MercyCorps Northwest has just
[02:25.54]started a LIFE program at a women's prison
[02:28.83]in Washington state.
[02:31.17]Doug Cooper says he hopes the idea
[02:34.51]will spread to prisons
[02:36.03]throughout the country.
[02:37.63]The group says just three
[02:40.67]of the one hundred graduates
[02:42.26]of its training program
[02:43.85]have returned to prison.
[02:45.99]Graduates of the LIFE program
[02:49.03]have started businesses like cutting hair
[02:52.14]and selling goods at farmers markets.
[02:56.72]One woman who served time for theft now
[03:00.31]runs an automobile repair business.
[03:04.09]Lori does not want her last name used.
[03:07.82]She says she worries what people
[03:10.81]might think if they knew
[03:12.95]she had been in prison.
[03:14.39]Lori stayed in contact
[03:17.18]with a MercyCorps mentor
[03:18.82]after she left prison.
[03:20.91]Together they found answers to questions
[03:24.59]about running a small business.
[03:27.33]LORI: "What works, what doesn't?
[03:28.33]And is it worth having a website
[03:31.31]of your own,
[03:32.21]and what avenues of advertising
[03:34.65]can you exploit for free?
[03:37.03]Those are the type of things
[03:38.83]that I found invaluable."
[03:40.68]And that's the VOA Special English
[03:42.87]Education Report.
[03:44.61]You can read and listen to our reports,
[03:50.36]and post comments at 51voa.com
[03:55.04]I'm Christopher Cruise.
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