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Roots of Success Welcomes Deborah Moore to our Advisory Board
Roots of Success is happy to welcome Deborah Moore to our Advisory Board. Deborah is the principal with Campaign Catalyst Solutions. Previously, Deborah was Western States Campaign Manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists where she helped pass some of the world's...
Outside the Wall: Enjoying the View
The following was written by Grady Mitchell. Grady is a Roots of Success instructor, master trainer, and Advisory Board member, and recently joined us as Corrections and Reentry Outreach Coordinator. Grady was incarcerated in Washington state prisons for 37 years and...
Roots of Success a Finalist for Best of Green Schools Award
We are happy to announce Roots of Success is a finalist in the 2021 Green Schools Awards, co-presented by the Center for Green Schools at USGBC and Green Schools National Network. The Best of Green Schools Awards celebrate the leaders—individuals, schools, campuses,...
Partner Spotlight: Growing Home
On April 1st, we had the great pleasure of training three new instructors from Growing Home. Growing Home is Chicago’s leading expert in farm-based training for people with employment barriers. The program, based in the Englewood community, has been around since 2002...
Outside the Wall: My biggest accomplishment so far!
The following is written by Jaime Armour, who graduated from Roots of Success at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Jaime was able to return to her community in The Dalles, Oregon in 2019. In these blog posts, she will be providing us with updates about how she’s...
Outside the Wall: Meet Lori Moseley, ROS Advisory Board Member
Lori Moseley is a certified Roots of Success instructor and member of the Roots of Success Advisory Board. She was incarcerated for 2.5 years at Coffee Creek Correctional Center, where she spent most of those years helping others. Her efforts during the recent (and...
New hope for women in an Oregon correctional facility
Coffee Creek Women’s Correctional Center in Wilsonville, Oregon is one of 15 prisons located throughout the state of Oregon. For the population of nearly 1700 inside its walls, who spend years, often decades of their lives in incarceration, it can be difficult to find...
Outside the Wall: Waiting and Listening
The following was written by Lori Moseley, Roots of Success instructor and advisory board member. Lori was incarcerated for two and a half years, and was released from Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Oregon last month. She loves cats and dad jokes. Keep visiting...
My ‘incredibly powerful’ experience with Roots of Success, according to Maurice Hampton
Nine years ago, when Maurice Hampton was incarcerated at Pickaway Correctional Institute in Ohio, he struggled to see any positivity in his situation. He wanted to be part of something bigger than himself, something that would give him a constructive mindset. That’s...
Outside the Wall: Introducing Jaime
The following is written by Jaime Armour, who graduated from Roots of Success at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Jaime was able to return to her community in The Dalles, Oregon in 2019. She will be providing us with updates about how she’s spending her energy and...
Partner Spotlight: Ecotrust
Ecotrust is a Portland, Oregon nonprofit whose mission is to inspire fresh thinking that creates economic opportunity, social equity, and environmental well-being. Their goal is to foster a natural model of development that creates more resilient communities,...
Outside the Wall: The universe always provides
The following was written by Lori Moseley, Roots of Success instructor and advisory board member. Lori was incarcerated for two and a half years, and was released from Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Oregon in January. She loves cats and dad jokes. Keep visiting...
Partner Spotlight: Windy City Harvest
This year, we are happy to welcome three new Roots instructors from Windy City Harvest, an education and jobs-training initiative of the Chicago Botanic Garden that has been teaching Roots of Success for seven years. Windy City Harvest (WCH) is located in Chicago's...
New instructors trained in Binghamton City School District, largest public school district in the Central Southern Tier of New York State
by Dr. Raquel Pinderhughes Last week, I had the opportunity to work with three dedicated, highly skilled, seasoned high school science teachers who teach 11th and 12th grade science classes in the Binghamton City School District in upstate New York. Ryan Marchewka and...