A Sacred Place
Programs of Hope for Incarcerated Women
We are grateful to be back and growing our programs!
We are grateful to be back and growing our programs!
ASP Offers Volunteer Non-Profit Programs for Incarcerated Women at York Correctional Institute, Niantic CT – Since 2003
Our Mission
The Mission of A Sacred Place is to foster hope among incarcerated women of York CI in order to help them lead responsible, educated, spiritually enriched lives that are drug-free and crime-free.
“Somehow we find the strength
To swim to the distant shore of endurance
Journey to self-discovery
Walk the road to recovery
Despite suffering from self-inflicted wounds
Despite spasms of doubt in our hearts
Despite sins from our past
Somehow we find the strength
to endure, to survive, to live.” -m
Our Programs
A Sacred Place provides programs addressing emotional and educational literacy, modalities
to foster healing, spiritual connection and a successful return to society.
Storybook Project
My Caregiver & Me
Houses of Healing
Barbara Mahon Fund
Sacred Sweats
Women are often released after years of incarceration with only the clothing that was on them at arrest. Most often those clothes no longer fit or are inappropriate. With your help ASP provides new simple sweat-suits for women being released.
Sacred Sweeties
With your donations ASP provide gift bags full of baby supplies for York CI moms who give birth at L&M Hospital, New London. The crocheted critters (with donated yarns) are all lovingly crafted by our incarcerated women and added to the Sacred Sweeties gift bag.
Barbara Lisien-Juliano
Executive Director
Greetings and Blessings!
As the Executive Director for A Sacred Place, Inc., I am pleased to be part of a volunteer non-profit program bringing hope and light to an almost invisible group of women even in our times. Incarcerated women – many of them single mothers, poor, afflicted and addicted, are in dire need of assistance to help them heal, stand up and refocus their lives, especially before they are released.
We of A Sacred Place provide proven programs for incarcerated women at York Correctional Institution in Niantic, Connecticut.
Our programs are offered in an atmosphere that respects all individual backgrounds and faith traditions of our participants. Our programs work! And, our participants work hard! Graduates from A Sacred Place have one of the lowest recidivism rates in the USA.
Each year tighter Connecticut budget constraints for York (CI) threaten volunteer program resources. But miracles of grace do occur, especially through donations, for this vulnerable population – and with your help, they will continue.
Contact us for more information on how you can help. Donations are always needed to fund our programs and resources. Volunteers from all backgrounds are welcome to join us as facilitators, mentors and program providers.
And, always, please keep incarcerated women, their families and this work in prayer!
Peace!
If You Believe “People Can Change” Please Give Today!
Your gift makes it possible for us to provide programs and opportunities to help incarcerated women make important changes in their lives and re-enter society with the tools to be contributing and positive members of our communities.
A Sacred Place, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to providing rehabilitative programs and educational opportunities for incarcerated women in Connecticut.
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Contact
A Sacred Place, Inc.
P.O. Box 48
Niantic, CT 06357
Information regarding the Barbara Mahon College Fund:
barbaramahonfund@gmail.com