BOHOLST, JEWERLY MAE

B.S CRIMINOLOGY 4TH YEAR BLOCK A

Activity 1

What does being a member of a therapeutic community mean to you?

Being a member of therapeutic community helps as to grow as an individual, we

develop things that we like and find comfort to the family and we learned a lot on how to
communicate to the other members.  It promotes human and social transformation
among us who are part of the community and among us. Being a member helps me
realized my responsibility and the effect I made to my therapeutic family. Our job
function is not totally quite difficult because we did it to the purpose of serving our
family. The therapeutic community teach us to be better not for our-self but also for the
friends and family we had. It helps us overcome behavior management, intellectual and
spiritual aspects, emotional and psychological aspects and vocational or survival
aspects. Being responsible and being accountable in all of our works, from time
management to being social made us realize that we can and we are healing. It
changes our lifestyle and behavior for the better improvement. It also helps other
member to effectively reentry programs help to give former offenders the opportunity to
work, providing income and meaning in their lives. Some provide mentorship, housing
placement, workforce development, and employment placement among other
supportive services.

I am so grateful for all the other members of the therapeutic community they
mean a lot to not as friends but as family.