1. Diane Thomas

2. Proposal Defense
Research Question
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Literature Review
Chapter 3: Methods
Future Considerations
Summary
Questions

3. How will a peer-to-peer coaching component in the
current prison reentry program help reduce the
recidivism rates for women offenders?

4. Poor decisions in LIFE CAN BE OVERCOME
Re-Entry: Ex-Felons Face many consequences,
after release ,but they Can be Rehabilitated

5. A woman offender released from jail is in the survival phase.
Coaching research to be conducted in order to
››better to understand
› ›refine the coaching process
››enhance coaching outcomes for the Department of Corrections.
Peer-to Peer Coaching
.

6. Ontological Coaching:
Ontological Coaching provides a unique approach to learning and
coaching.
Ontology is the study of being, and be regarded as an inquiry into the
nature of human existence.
A way of being as an avenue to enhance well-being and quality of
existence.

7. Peer support occurs when people provide, experience, emotional,
social or practical help to each other. It commonly refers to an
initiative consisting of trained supporters, and can take a number of
forms such as peer mentoring, listening, or counseling. Peer support
is also used to refer to initiatives where colleagues, members of self-
help organizations and others meet as equals to give each other
support on a reciprocal basis. Peer in this case is taken to imply that
each person has no more expertise as a supporter than the other
and the relationship is one of equality.

8. Examples of life in prison: After interviews, a three-hour tour of Coffee
Creek Oregon Women's Prison and a review of trial transcripts,
depositions, police reports and budget documents by The Oregonian
reveal rampant problems and missed opportunities to fix them. The
newspaper found:
Sex acts occurred all over the 108-acre prison campus -- in cleaning
closets, utility tunnels, toolsheds, woodlands and under a firetruck.
Security weaknesses identified three years ago remain because prison
managers couldn't get money to fix them.

9. Women and Reentry
At the end of 2009, federal and state correctional facilities held
113,462 women, and increase of 22% since 2000.26
At least 712,000 women were on probation and 103,000 women were
on parole at yearend 2010.27
According to an analysis of recidivism data from 15 states, 58% of
women released from state prison in 1994 were rearrested, 38%
were reconvicted, and 30% returned to prison within three years of
release.28

10. A woman offender released from jail may be living on her gate money,
eating at a soup kitchen, and sleeping in a shelter or on a friend’s
couch; she may be desperately trying to stay sober, and go to an
emergency room if she has a health problem. She is likely to be
concerned about her children but to be so much in crisis herself that
she is unable to do anything on their behalf.

11. Chapter Two Literature Review
From the available literature, it seems that most criticisms
directed towards the high recidivism rates come from
either disappointed female offenders or taxpayers.

12. Heidegger (1962: 26) "If we are to understand the problem of Being,
our first philosophical step consists in not μûϑóν τινα διηγεîσ ϑαι, v in
not 'telling a story'—that is to say, in not defining entities as entities
by tracing them back in their origin to some other entities, as if
Being had the character of some possible entity. “

13. This project will utilize qualitative data collection tool.
Qualitative epistemological recognizes the
importance of locating the research within a particular
social context. .

14. My research methodology requires gathering relevant data from the
specified interviews and compiling results in order to analyze the
material and arrive at a more complete understanding and historical
reconstruction of the lives of selected female offenders

15. Summary
Loosers do what they want and winners do what they have to