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RETURNING CITIZENS

5/27/2014

98% of those who are incarcerated will return to live in our community. How do we want them to return............broken and bitter or healed and whole? We have the opportunity to make a difference. Reach out to someone who has just returned from prison. Invite them for a cup of coffee. Get to know them. You may discover that just because they have done a bad thing doesn't make them a bad person. You may the one person that they learn to trust. You may have just the helping hand that they need in order to make a positive change and begin making good choices for their life.

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Judy Clarke

Judith
Tolleson Clarke, BS, MA, VCRJ Executive Director, completed
her Bachelor’s degree in General Studies at Radford University and her MA in Conflict Transformation with a concentration in Restorative Justice at Eastern Mennonite University. A former special education teacher, Judy wrote a
values-based, restorative justice curriculum, “How to Handle Conflict” and taught it to over three thousand male and female inmates. While managing her advertising agency, she was a member of the faculty of the Institute for Organizational Management, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Judy served on the Board of Directors of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, is a member of Leadership Metro Richmond and was chosen “Outstanding Woman of the Year”
by the Virginia Women Attorney’s Association. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the League of Women Voters of the Richmond Metropolitan Area and as a Deacon at Mount Vernon Baptist Church, Glen Allen, VA.

RETURNING CITIZENS

Judy Clarke

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