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Empowering trauma-impacted populations through transformative programming in social emotional learning

Houses of Healing

for Prisoners
Power Source

for Youth at Risk
Power Source Parenting

for Teenage Parents
EQ2
for Direct Care Staff
serving Youth
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About Lionheart

The Lionheart Foundation, established in 1992, is a 501[c][3] nonprofit organization committed to creating high impact, evidence based, social emotional learning curricula to empower prisoners, youth at risk, teenage parents, and direct care staff. Lionheart has donated over 140,000 of our resources to those who otherwise would not have had access. Lionheart’s educational programming has been integrated into thousands of prisons, juvenile institutions, social service agencies, schools, and community programs throughout the United States.

At the core of everything we do is the belief that all human life has value, inherent worth, dignity, and resiliency.

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30 Years’ Experience

Providing emotional literacy resources to prisoners, at risk youth, teenage parents & front line staff.

Prisons and Youth Organizations

Lionheart SEL programs distributed to >20,000 prisons, jails, juvenile institutions, programs, & schools.

Lionheart Books

300,000+ copies of Houses of Healing, Power Source & Power Source Parenting in circulation nationwide and abroad.

Houses of Healing

Houses of Healing

for Prisoners

The book Houses of Healing: A Prisoner’s Guide to Inner Power and Freedom, with its new workbook companion, Making Time Count, offer an engaging, research-driven curriculum/program for behavioral change, emotional healing, and successful rehabilitation and reentry.

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A practical and accessible book written for highly at-risk youth to identify their strengths and take control over their lives, while increasing their understanding of the emotions and beliefs driving their high-risk and offending behavior. curriculum/program for behavioral change, emotional healing, and successful rehabilitation and reentry.

Power Source

for Youth At Risk

A practical and accessible book written for highly at-risk youth to identify their strengths and take control over their lives, while increasing their understanding of the emotions and beliefs driving their high-risk and offending behavior. A curriculum/program for behavioral change, emotional healing, and successful rehabilitation and reentry.

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Power Source Parenting

for Teenage Parents

A practical and accessible book written for teen and young adult parents and the professionals who support them. It equips teen parents with social-emotional competencies and regulatory skills to become emotionally available and nurturing parents, and to raise their children in a healthy way.

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EQ2

for Direct Care Staff serving Youth

Uniquely designed to help staff build the essential and often complex social and emotional regulation skills required to actively manage how they respond to youths’ traumatic stress reactions and challenging behavior.

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Impact on Participants

Testimonials from participants of Lionheart’s social emotional learning programs come in from around the country. Hear directly from one of the participants of the Houses of Healing program, and read some other powerful testimonials below.

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Monique's Story –
Houses of Healing

Monique's story of self discovery and finding the means to make life altering changes with the help of "Houses of Healing" is a common theme we hear at The Lionheart Foundation.

Testimonials

Our agency has been providing case management and support services to adolescent parents and their children for over 22 years. We have reviewed and utilized numerous resource materials over this period, including books, brochures, pamphlets, videos, DVDs, etc. I have never come across a resource that has been so universally accepted and embraced by my… Read more “”

Program Director
Adolescent and Family Services, Fresno, CA

Houses of Healing helped me look into some areas in my life that I wanted to bury and never attempt to look at. In reading HOH and being honest with myself I was able to not only bring them back up but to then work thru them. I’ve been doing time since the late 70’s… Read more “”

Houses of Healing Program Participant
Pelican Bay State Prison, CA

With more and more kids in deep trouble in America, we need [Power Source] more than ever…

James Garbarino, PhD
Cornell University, author of Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them

Participating in this course [Houses of Healing] has impacted my life dramatically. The program helped in ways I couldn’t have imagined. Coming into the course I had little expectation. Now I would recommend this course because everybody deserves a chance to rehabilitate the way they think. Especially in this environment.

Houses of Healing Program Participant
California

I got to go through the EQ2 sessions in full…they are AWESOME! I absolutely love the content and the topics! This should be mandatory for staff working with young people!

Anisha Chablani
Chief Knowledge Officer, ROCA, Chelsea, MA

Power Source Parenting really inspired me. I took a real interest in this book. It warmed my brain with a lot of thoughts about my life. The horrible situations I went through during my childhood nobody can believe. This book made me stronger and more confident as a parent.

Jen
16 years old

Houses of Healing is now and will continue to be an essential component of our A.S.A.T (Alcohol & Substance Abuse Treatment) curriculum. The material has been exceptionally well received. Obviously it is no small feat to actively engage this generally resistant population. Houses of Healing not only captures their attention, it inspires the desire to… Read more “”

Diane Arnesen
Counselor, Mt. Lyons C.F., NY

I’ve seen a lot of s*** in my life and done a lot, but I never thought some book would change me. When I first got locked up I was out of control – stealing, fighting, drugging. I even hit the fence 4 different times at this juvenile hall to show the system and my… Read more “”

Jason
17 years old

There is not a doubt in my mind that every person in prison needs to read Houses of Healing. I was hardly able to put it down to eat or sleep. I found myself all through it.

Edwin
N.C.C.I, Marion, OH

OUR STATEMENT ON LANGUAGE & LABELS

Language matters. At The Lionheart Foundation, one of our core values is Dignity: respect the inherent decency and dignity of every human that we work with. We also appreciate that the words we use in our programming have an impact. That's why we make efforts to use person-first/non-labeling language and terms whenever possible. However, we simultaneously understand that many of the populations that we work with continue to use terms such as “prisoner” and "inmate." For this reason, we will continue to use this language when necessary to ensure that our programs are accessible and we're able to reach the people who need them most.

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Phone: 781-444-6667
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