The Lionheart Foundation

The Prison Project

The National Emotional Literacy Project for Prisoners

The National Emotional Literacy Project for Prisoners, Lionheart's first major and ongoing initiative, gives incarcerated men and women throughout the United States a powerful program and resources to help them change life-long patterns of violence and addiction and build productive lives.

Lionheart's prison program helps prisoners take stock of the life experiences that have propelled them into criminal activity while helping them take full responsibility for their criminal behavior. We support them in understanding that how they think, interpret, feel and respond to their circumstances can completely change their experience of life and their future. They are given practical yet powerful tools to take charge of their lives and transform their futures. The results are impressive. Thousands of lives are being turned around through these programs.

The centerpiece of the project is the book/curriculum Houses of Healing: A Prisoner's Guide to Inner Power and Freedom with an accompanying facilitator's manual. The vast majority of these resources are distributed free to prison libraries and prison programs nationwide. More than 85,000 copies of Houses of Healing are in circulation. It combines essential tools for change with a keen awareness of the challenges facing incarcerated men and women. Prisoners and corrections professionals are embracing the program (which includes a video series) with overwhelming enthusiasm. Houses of Healing has changed the nature of programming in some of the nations most violent institutions.

The rapidly expanding prison population continues to grow as a major national crisis. Taking a proactive stance, Lionheart is committed to playing an integral part in redefining our nation's prisons as places for healing and rehabilitation.

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